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Postby Dell'Orto » Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:18 pm

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,369 ... 55,00.html

I'd be interested in seeing which guy was driving...and if it had an affect on the court's decision.
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Postby Adamal » Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:40 pm

Bet the younger guy was in a turbo 4/6 and the older guy was in a V8.

Although he did do a defensive driving course, I don't think that should let him off so easily for such reckless driving. I mean, its one thing if you're going to be putting your own lives at risk, driving at those sorts of speeds on our roads, but when theres other people on the road, AND you have passangers.... Thats not on.
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Postby Elmo » Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:38 am

It says in the article that the younger guy got 2 months jail, and the older guy got 300 hours CS due to volunterily sitting a defensive driving course.
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Postby Silent Knight » Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:30 am

Yay for defensive driving courses. :roll:
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Postby no_8wire » Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:49 am

nothing at all....just gets time off...either from jail or from time between licences
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Postby Silent Knight » Mon Jun 12, 2006 9:29 am

^^ Was a retorical question. :lol:
Granted, not very well thought out and formed by me though... :P
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Postby Bling » Mon Jun 12, 2006 9:37 am

I think the defensive driving course teaches people to be more aware of hazards.... i'd do it again if sitting my license.




mainly to shorten time tho on licenses :P
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Postby bluemaumau » Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:45 am

i did it. it was so obvious, if you didnt already know most of the stuff they said, well you shouldnt be driving,

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Postby suped » Mon Jun 12, 2006 1:03 pm

At least we all know what to say to the Judge if in the same situation..
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Postby Al » Mon Jun 12, 2006 5:58 pm

They didn't give much away in the article, the young guy could have been disqualified previously or have other driving convictions to his name, possibly even tried to do a runner when the disco's came on?
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Postby RS13 » Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:29 am

They were both driving V8 Commodores. You'll notice, because of this, that the term "boyracer" was hardly used in the newspaper article. :roll:
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Postby The_Sorrow » Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:10 pm

RS13 wrote:They were both driving V8 Commodores. You'll notice, because of this, that the term "boyracer" was hardly used in the newspaper article. :roll:


Nah, couldn't have been commodores. They said they were driving "high performance cars" :lol:

Jokes aside, the lawyers really must have been scraping the bottom with what they used for a defence
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Postby AE85coupe » Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:03 pm

so does anybody actually know what they were driving?

would be interested to know
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Postby RED TOP MR 2 » Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:25 pm

rules 4 defensive drivin jus changed you now have to do an hours practical
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