Drunken Driving offence

[Kai]

Ive had enough with this thread....



speeding it's not that bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiKQO6BVzyA

[Mook]

The first beer is already over the limit if you have to drive still

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http://www.rupissed.com/

[Rick1]

Brendenfrazer's temppu went to the highest regions:

http://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/artikkeli/AL+P ... 5260952739

[Upphew]

http://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/artikkeli/AL+P ... 5260952739

Every police's wet dream, guilty until proven innocent. Zero tolerance to speeding would be ok, if the speed limits weren't political game pieces. I wonder when they make eye glasses mandatory to everyone... some of us might have poor eyesight.

[Bavarian]

Valid for 50 years, and no eye checks? Here in New York, the drivers' licenses are only valid for eight years, and you have to take an eye test every time; I even had to take one when I was as young as 30.

As for Upphew's point, back when a lot of countries still had international broadcasting on short-wave I liked to listen to the various countries. The folks from Belgium kept having some road-safety whack jobs on, who would argue for the necessity of having automatic governors in cars that would receive radio signals from speed limit signs, and make it impossible for cars to go faster than the speed limit. I found the idea repulsive at the time, and wrote in to the station that I would love to see the computer hackers hack the system so that cars going to the seaside resorts via motorway would no longer be able to go faster than idling speed, while cars would be forced to do 150 km/h or more through school zones.

Here in the somewhat rural part of New York where I live, every September at the beginning of the school year, signs go up reading, "School's open! Drive carefully!" with the reasoning being that there are going to be kids waking to their bus stops in the morning and home from the bus stop in the afternoon. Those signs always make me want to put up signs of my own, reading, "School's closed, drive recklessly".

[Upphew]

My husband's driver's license has no requirement for him to wear any glasses and is valid until 2047. Up until about a year ago he would have been considered legally blind (but could still have flashed the license to show his eyesight was "fine"!). He has now had a double cornea transplant... and his vision is still way below "normal"... but he's still got a driver's license proving he doesn't need glasses

50 years on a license without a single vision check? Smart. NOT!!!

The doctor should inform police if there are changes that affect your ability to drive. Also at 45 you need to get paper from optician or doctor (for all license classes) and from doctor at 70. For CDEtc. class licenses you need to get that paper from doctor every 5 years after that initial check.

[dave071061]

Back to the original subject, Have just been breath tested in Ring 3 on my way back from the airport,
And 2 weeks ago when I last was leaving the airport late at night they were doing checks as you left the airport

So they seem to be pretty active in trying to catch anyone stupid enough to DD

[Pursuivant]

"School's open! Drive carefully!" with the reasoning being that there are going to be kids waking to their bus stops in the morning and home from the bus stop in the afternoon.

Well its also theres first graders who are a bit goofy in traffic, kids changing from lower to upper grade not familiar with the paths, and kids don't always look before running over the street to see their mates, nevermind the ones bicycling to school and overgrown hedges, but here they've given rural kids reflective vests so they can be seen on the roadside walking to or back from school.

[DMC]

A friend is the "road manager" for a local private road where there are a lot of summer cottages. He has tried putting up different speed limit signs but they make little difference to the speed of passing cars. What does make a difference is those signs saying children are playing. These do make the cars slow down. Leaving a child's bike on the ground near the sign re-inforces the effect and traffic slows even more. So drivers do seem to take more care when they think children are around.

[ajdias]

The missing information are the total numbers of checks. Police suggests "that the reduction of the police resources allocated to the monitoring practices rather than a sudden reduction of the actual number of drunken drivers may explain the development."

[Upphew]

"that the reduction of the police resources allocated to the monitoring practices rather than a sudden reduction of the actual number of drunken drivers may explain the development."

Cameras catch only speeders as alcohol doesn't show up in the picture... Oh, now I understand the Paatero's need to get breathalyzer integrated to the cars.

[Bavarian]

"School's open! Drive carefully!" with the reasoning being that there are going to be kids waking to their bus stops in the morning and home from the bus stop in the afternoon.

Well its also theres first graders who are a bit goofy in traffic, kids changing from lower to upper grade not familiar with the paths, and kids don't always look before running over the street to see their mates, nevermind the ones bicycling to school and overgrown hedges, but here they've given rural kids reflective vests so they can be seen on the roadside walking to or back from school.

I'm not talking about the areas near the schools themselves; we have school crossing signs (and reduced speed limits in school zones) for that:



I see them on roads where in theory (but not really in practice) kids would have to walk ~1km home from the bus stop after being dropped off by the bus. The kids you talk about not looking before crossing the street or cycling would be around all year, and especially in the summer, I'd think.

[Upphew]

The kids you talk about not looking before crossing the street or cycling would be around all year, and especially in the summer, I'd think.

Beginning of the school year tends to bring new children to the traffic. And Siberia teaches, they either learn not to rush over the road and obey the traffic lights or... so the weakest are in hospital or graveyard before Christmas and new ones don't come before next fall

[karel]

Today another exemplary situation on the Länsiväylä, going to the other extreme.
Coming into town I ran into a looooong line of cars doing 70-75 on Länsiväylä. The line started around exit Westend and extended almost to exit Lauttasaari. I first thought there must be some road work going on, but since I didn't see any sign of that, nor of any reduced speed I started overtaking the line. Just before exit Lauttasaari I got to the front of the line, where a police van was trolling traffic with a 70-75km/hr speed. Apparently no one dared to overtake. I passed the police with 85-90 (on my speedo). When I passed it 5 or 6 cars simultaneously jumped the line and started overtaking as well...
Saintish behavior... Those police guys must've pissed themselves in their van

[Rick1]

Finnish logic:
Hundred new camera's on the Kehä III , not one on länsiväylä where they pass you often with 120 (when they can).

Ofcourse it is not that often when they see a police van