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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

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

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

AutoTalk – What We Think!

Matt Brogan — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:56:49 +0000

To show we’re more than road testers and news writers, members of the CarAdvice team will from here on in present regular editorial pieces on a topic close to their heart … or simply something they need to get of their chest. Every morning when leaving for work I have to pass through a school [...]

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

AutoTalk – What We Think!

UK speed limit petition gathers pace

Matt Brogan — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:02:49 +0000

A petition against the British government proposal to reduce the national speed limit from 60mp/h to 50mp/h (96km/h to 80km/h) has gained over 20,000 signatures to date, and is currently the fourth largest petition on the website of the Prime Minister. The government has reducing the national speed limit on safety grounds, but the Association of [...]

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

UK speed limit petition gathers pace

Push to extend double-demerit point program

Matt Brogan — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:08:42 +0000

Assistant Commissioner (Traffic) Ken Lay has proposed re-introducing the double-demerit point program in Victoria next Christmas, claiming it has worked wonders in reducing the road toll in other states. The statistics behind this move however indicate a possible 63,000 drivers in Victoria with 10 or more demerit points are at risk of losing their licences. More than [...]

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

Push to extend double-demerit point program

NSW speed demerit points to be lowered

Matt Brogan — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:46:59 +0000

The NSW Government is set to announce a reduction in the amount of demerit points relating to minor speeding offences within the next few days. While the amount of points pertaining to exceeding the limit by less than 15km/h is currently three in NSW it is understood that this could be lowered to one, to bring [...]

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

NSW speed demerit points to be lowered

Share my story – QLD transport tries something new

Alborz Fallah — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:44:26 +0000

We all know the horror graphic ads showing in detail what smoking does to our body, but does it really have a lasting affect? Has anyone quit smoking because they saw an ad showing what it’s like to have throat cancer? Recently we posted these rather graphical ads showcasing the “most emotional” road safety ads from [...]

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

Share my story – QLD transport tries something new

School’s back – slow down

Matt Brogan — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:08:29 +0000

Police are urging motorists to observe school zone speed limits after a blitz in Melbourne yesterday nabbed one driver at 97km/h through the 40km/h school zone. He was one of 17 people caught in the busy St. Kilda school zone in the first hour of the operation. Police say that this is a basic safety issue (more [...]

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

School’s back – slow down

2008 Road toll figures lowest in 59 years

Alborz Fallah — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 07:35:43 +0000

The final road toll figures for 2008 have been released, setting last year’s record at 1463 road casualties. This is a reduction of 153 deaths over 2007 and 135 over 2006. The good news is this is the best year on record since 1949, it sounds even better when you take into consideration that there are [...]

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

2008 Road toll figures lowest in 59 years

Two Victorian motorists take speed cameras to court

Matt Brogan — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:54:34 +0000

Two Victorian motorists who revealed how mobile speed cameras were unreliable have begun a legal battle to show Victoria’s fixed cameras can’t be trusted either. John King and Claus Salger say thousands of Victorians are wrongly fined for speeding each year caught by fixed cameras that are poorly installed, calibrated and maintained. But they say the millions [...]

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

Two Victorian motorists take speed cameras to court