Article: Zero tolerance to bad driving this festive season

There will be no excuse for bad behavior and drunk driving on the country's roads this festive season.

Ashref Ismail, of the Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC), said law enforcement officers were not going to be sympathetic to reckless, negligent drivers and those who will be driving under the influence of alcohol.
 
wow the death toll went up.... but I guess u deserve it when u don't bide by the rulz....
 
I still cannot quite understand why there is an implied leniency out of season.

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Reckless, negligent drivers, drunken driving, overtaking on the barrier lane and ... crossing red lights - all these traffic (law) infringements are not negotiable
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So, the rest are, and by negotiable, you mean bribe-able right?
Pathetic.
 
davemc said:
I still cannot quite understand why there is an implied leniency out of season.
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I don't think the powers that be will ever understand this. In past years there have been more deaths during months like August than during Easter and the end-of-year holidays.

Zero tolerance should involve revoking licences, arrest and crushing unroadworthy vehicles on the spot. Fines don't seem to work, but a weekend in jail or having your car crushed might do the job.
 
Crushing unroadworthy vehicles on-the-spot.
!AWESOME!

All you would need is some legislative authorisation and a person from the asset forfeiture unit at the spot, and ... A PORTABLE METAL CRUSHER.
Booya!

That will put the fear in them, good and proper.
 
rpm said:
There will be no excuse for bad behavior and drunk driving on the country's roads this festive season.

Ashref Ismail, of the Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC), said law enforcement officers were not going to be sympathetic to reckless, negligent drivers and those who will be driving under the influence of alcohol.
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Hmm... I was driving around much of today and there were plenty of morons on the road. Guess this hasn't gone into effect yet.
 
davemc said:
Crushing unroadworthy vehicles on-the-spot.
!AWESOME!

All you would need is some legislative authorisation and a person from the asset forfeiture unit at the spot, and ... A PORTABLE METAL CRUSHER.
Booya!

That will put the fear in them, good and proper.
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Awesome. Sounds like a plan.
 
Zero-tolerance means nothing of the statement is not qualified and intensely enforced. Today still I saw pedestrians jaywalking across a busy road and 4 taxis in a queue speeding past in the emergency lane, all in front/pass a driving police (not metro) car, which did not even react.
A mate of mine got rear-ended by a skedonk-Datsun 120Y (with 6 people in it) which couldn't brake on the downhill section of the N3 in PMB, writing off his Fortuner and 2 other cars on their way to Durbs. I don't know about the casualties but the point is, that Datsun shouldn't even have been on the road, let alone carry 6 people.

If the State can't even properly regulate who and what is allowed to drive on the roads, how on earth can they even make a "zero-tolerance to traffic offenses" statement? That's almost as ridiculous as implementing CO2 tax when the majority of our population can't even properly chuck their rubbish into a bin.
 
Nothing to see here, move along.

Yawn.

Same, same same same. Last year the same. The year before last the same.
 
Given that more than 40% are pedestrian I wish the cops would clamp down on those freeway dashers.
 
so are they going to enforce this with the same resolve and diligence that they enforce the law out of season? :rolleyes:
 
MickeyD said:
Are unwanted cars in your yard yet this season?
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haha... no... fortunately no cars yet. Just one incident where a guy hit the tree in the middle of the night again just before we left for the USA. He said a dog ran in front of him. Funny we saw no skid marks.
 
Garyvdh said:
haha... no... fortunately no cars yet. Just one incident where a guy hit the tree in the middle of the night again just before we left for the USA. He said a dog ran in front of him. Funny we saw no skid marks.
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What car was he driving? I have ABS which means i don't leave skid marks.
 
I hope they're going to crack down on people who drive slowly. And idiots who pull into the fast lane going too slowly with no intention of matching their speed to the traffic already in the lane. Also morons who slam on their brakes in the fast lane because they want to get into the slower moving traffic in the left lane and have not planned ahead.

There are many vehicles out there that quite clearly belong on the scrap heap and they should be getting them off the roads. I'm not concerned about lesser things on the roadworthy check-list, but critical things like tires, brakes, shocks and so on.

lcbxx said:
Today still I saw pedestrians jaywalking across a busy road
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Jaywalking safely requires intelligence, skill and co-ordination. All things that the majority of people doing it seem to lack. It should be obvious that some roads are exceptionally difficult or impossible to cross without assistance, but I regularly see pedestrians simply running blindly into traffic. Ideally I'd want the idiots who can't do it smartly to get run over and killed without endangering the driver of the vehicle.
 
noxibox said:
I hope they're going to crack down on people who drive slowly. And idiots who pull into the fast lane going too slowly with no intention of matching their speed to the traffic already in the lane. Also morons who slam on their brakes in the fast lane because they want to get into the slower moving traffic in the left lane and have not planned ahead.

There are many vehicles out there that quite clearly belong on the scrap heap and they should be getting them off the roads. I'm not concerned about lesser things on the roadworthy check-list, but critical things like tires, brakes, shocks and so on.


Jaywalking safely requires intelligence, skill and co-ordination. All things that the majority of people doing it seem to lack. It should be obvious that some roads are exceptionally difficult or impossible to cross without assistance, but I regularly see pedestrians simply running blindly into traffic. Ideally I'd want the idiots who can't do it smartly to get run over and killed without endangering the driver of the vehicle.
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Wow, so many assumptions in one post....

1. There is no law in SA against Jaywalking. That being said, crossing highways are against the law. But appart from Highways people are free to cross any road any place they want.

2. If a Person is driving in the slow lane at 120 km/h and they creep up on a car doing 100, indicates and moves to the fast lane still doing 120 km/h. I assume you are complaining because you are rushing around at anything above 120km/h ?
 
Yea yea whatever, every season its Zero f*king tolerance, till you put R200 note in the cops hand.

W/E.
 
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