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Honda Australia stands up to TAC’s motorcycle scare tactics

Matt Brogan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:26:42 +0000

Fed up with a number of new “scare tactics” advertising campaigns about motorcyclists, Honda Australia is instead emphasising the importance of appropriate training and riding advice in the lead up to summer. Honda Motorcycles general manager Tony Hinton says his company is working overtime to educate both current riders as well as those who have an [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Honda Australia stands up to TAC’s motorcycle scare tactics

Victoria to adopt new road laws from today

Matt Brogan — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:04:12 +0000

New Victorian road rules begin today, bringing Victoria more closely in line with the rest of the country. The rules fall under VicRoads’ Arrive Alive 2008-2017 strategy which aims to make roads safer and reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries. These are some of the new regulations and a few of the penalties that [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Victoria to adopt new road laws from today

Number plate recognition police cars deployed in SA

Alborz Fallah — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:28:47 +0000

As part of a trial for an interesting new system, South Australian police have begun using patrol cars fitted with a camera system capable of instantly reading and analysing number plates of cars driving past. The Automated Number Plate Recognition camera system will automatically run the number plate of cars through its system and tell the [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Number plate recognition police cars deployed in SA

CarAdvice Podcast The Driveshow Episode 17

Alborz Fallah — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:15:50 +0000

CarAdvice wishes to welcome our new editor John Cadogan and what better way to introduce him than to host his podcast program: The Drive Show. In this episode John interviews Rod Easdown, the motoring journalist who got caught doing 231km/h in a Ferrari California in Western Australia, plus much more. You can subscribe to our podcast [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

CarAdvice Podcast The Driveshow Episode 17

New road laws for Victoria from November

Matt Brogan — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:28:35 +0000

Vicroads has announced a raft of new road laws aimed at making Victorian roads safer, all to be effective from November 9 this year. The changes apply to mobile phone & satellite navigation use, child restraints, motorcycle pillion passengers, U-turns and overtaking, seatbelts, cyclists, wheeled recreation devices, driving with trams and parking. Mobile Phones & Visual Display [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

New road laws for Victoria from November

Radical SR3 RS & SR8 track day supercars

Anthony Crawford — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:51:18 +0000

I’m all for safe driving, but our maximum legal speed limit in Australia is considered dangerously slow in many sections of Germany’s high-speed autobahn system. By Anthony Crawford And no, I’m not trying to be funny either we have absolute proof of how dangerous these so-called safe speeds of ours can be over there. It’s 2007, and [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Radical SR3 RS & SR8 track day supercars

Victoria Police ‘hoon’ blitz starts tonight

Matt Brogan — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:35:33 +0000

Victoria Police will tonight launch the second stage of Operation Ardent, a major road blitz aimed at dangerous driving across the state. The operation, which will continue through until Sunday, will see police target specific trouble spots focusing on so-called ‘hoon’ driving as well as speeding, dangerous driving, drug and drink driving offences. Regions identified as the [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Victoria Police ‘hoon’ blitz starts tonight

Speed cameras torched across Sydney

George Skentzos — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:52:41 +0000

It appears as though a few disgruntled motorists are serving their own kind of vigilanty justice in North Sydney by torching yet another speed camera earlier today. The city-bound fixed speed camera halfway up Spit Hill was deliberately set alight at around 2am this morning, wiping out one of the city’s most notorious revenue-raising cameras. Police attended [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Speed cameras torched across Sydney

Victoria’s oldest “hoon” caught at 160km/h

Matt Brogan — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:40:54 +0000

Updated 5:45pm Victoria’s oldest “hoon” driver, a 79 year old man from the tiny town of Aubrey in the Wimmera, asked police if he could be let go with a warning after being clocked at 60km/h over the speed limit. The man, who recorded a speed of 160km/h, came to a screeching halt in the middle of [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Victoria’s oldest “hoon” caught at 160km/h

NSW’S $7million speed camera!

David Twomey — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:06:06 +0000

It will probably get a pat on the back from the New South Wales Government, it certainly won’t win any kudos from motorists, but one speed camera in suburban Sydney has raised $7million in revenue in a year. Described by Sydney newspaper The Daily Telegraph as the state’s nastiest speed trap, it has caught out 71,288 [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

NSW’S $7million speed camera!

NSW Police boycott fines indefinitely

George Skentzos — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:05:17 +0000

From next Monday, New South Wales will become a “fine-free” state with Police set to show leniency on any ticketable offence following an escalating pay row with the State Government. The action is expected to cost the State Government over $2 million and raise public interest over the matter with 15,000 police state-wide siding with the [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

NSW Police boycott fines indefinitely

BMW driver training goes to school

Matt Brogan — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:21:04 +0000

In an effort to create greater initiative for safety on our roads BMW Driver Training has joined forces with Melbourne’s Scotch College in a pilot program that aims to bring a higher level of driver education to next-generation road users. Chief BMW Driver Training instructor Geoff Brabham headed up the program, sharing key driver safety tips [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

BMW driver training goes to school

‘Sick’ modifications to require engineering approval

Paul Maric — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:56:23 +0000

From August 1st, 2009, gone will be the days of lowering a car so much that it needs assistance to traverse a speed hump. The Road Transport Authority (RTA) will introduce new laws which prohibit vehicles from being lowered or raised any more than 5cm, along with all modifications requiring the approval of an RTA engineer. The [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

‘Sick’ modifications to require engineering approval

Police move to protect speed camera operators

Paul Maric — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:10:19 +0000

Operators of mobile speed cameras in South Australia will now receive an added layer of protection from would be vigilantes. A protective coating on the glass of operator’s vehicles – preventing the windows from shattering – will be implemented in the hope of reducing potential injury following a recent spate of rock throwing by motorists. In addition [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Police move to protect speed camera operators

Ferrari California nabbed at 231km/h; impounded

George Skentzos — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:17:28 +0000

A new Ferrari California, said to be one of only two in Australia, has been impounded by police after a Perth-based motoring journalist was caught travelling at 231km/h through the West Australian wheatbelt. The Italian supercar, valued at almost $500,000, has now been impounded after Financial Review motoring writer Rod Easdown was detected at more than [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Ferrari California nabbed at 231km/h; impounded

$50m Victoria Speed Camera Blitz

Matt Brogan — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:35:56 +0000

Victoria is set to receive its largest expansion of the speed camera network since 1986 with the addition of 31 new fixed speed cameras across the state. 22 existing sites will also upgraded from red light to combined red light / speed cameras. As if that’s not enough an additional 3000 hours per month – or [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

$50m Victoria Speed Camera Blitz

Victoria Police operation targets truckies

Matt Brogan — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:54:07 +0000

Victorian Police have this weekend completed a massive state-wide operation targeting truck drivers in what they say was a successful “blitz on heavy vehicle safety”. Operation Austrans saw Police intercept over 4500 trucks on popular interstate routes from Friday night with a result of more than 1200 infringement notices being issued. Drivers were booked for a range [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Victoria Police operation targets truckies

NSW trialling electronic speed limiter in cars

George Skentzos — Thu, 21 May 2009 06:23:46 +0000

The New South Wales government will begin testing a new electronic speed limiter device on Wollongong roads next month which it says could one day become a standard feature on all cars. Although its effectiveness is already being questioned as drivers will be able to override the system at the flick of a switch, which would [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

NSW trialling electronic speed limiter in cars

4000 drivers screened in Victorian Police operation

Matt Brogan — Sun, 10 May 2009 22:31:51 +0000

As part of an on-going Police operation in Victoria, nearly 4000 drivers in the northern Melbourne suburb of Preston were screened for drugs and alcohol on Friday and Saturday nights. Police caught 11 drivers under the influence as part of Operation Boags 4 which also tested vehicles for harmful levels of smoke and/or noise with the [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

4000 drivers screened in Victorian Police operation

Victorians worst mobile phone culprits

Matt Brogan — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:45:57 +0000

Victorian drivers are being caught and fined for illegally using mobile phones whilst driving at the rate of 100 per day. The figures, released by Victoria Police today, aim to reduce the number of drivers talking on mobile phones, especially commercial drivers who make up the majority number of those caught. Fines totalling $5,882,669 and over 120,000 [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Victorians worst mobile phone culprits