NEWS, VIC : Cyclists to face big fines or prison under tough new laws

[Sp33dY]

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sto...78-661,00.html


The maximum penalties under the new act include:

DANGEROUS riding - $13,610 or prison for twelve months or both.

CARELESS riding of a bike - $681 for a first offence and $1361 for a subsequent offence

IF a person is killed or seriously injured by a cyclist and the rider has not immediately stopped and offered assistance - $68,052 or five years in prison

IF property is damaged by a cyclist and the rider has not immediately stopped and offered assistance - $284 or seven days in prison for a first offence and $567 or prison for between seven and 14 days for a subsequent offence.

Mr Pallas said two people had died in the past 10 years after being hit by cyclists and another 68 had been seriously injured.

“Increasingly the message has to be everybody needs to share the road and nobody has an exclusive right to use the road and nobody has the right to ignore the road rules,” he said.

[Lorday]

FUCKING BULLSHIT!
That is all that needs to be said!

[Tomas]

Not really. Just makes cyclists as culpable on the roads as cars.

[Parker.]

Watch out Fixie riders.
What about couriers in sydney though? There gonna do it tough.

[ido09s]

I say its about time.

I love my bike but i hate some cyclists that use the road. This will make them realise they arent special on the road, they are just like everyone else.

Time they introduce rego as well. Would certainly be a way of keeping tabs on some cyclists.

**runs to put on the flame suit**

[a.davis12]

Originally Posted by ido09s

I say its about time.

I love my bike but i hate some cyclists that use the road. This will make them realise they arent special on the road, they are just like everyone else.

Time they introduce rego as well. Would certainly be a way of keeping tabs on some cyclists.

**runs to put on the flame suit**

i agree with the first part. but not the second.
if anyone ever tried to make me register to ride my bike theyd regret it. its just fucking dumb. over regulation is just fucking ridiculous, not to mention incredibly impractical. how far would it go? would 3 y.o. on trikes have to register? if they didnt id claim discrimination and then some other rule would protect me from registering

*rants*

[ADAM7935]

hahahah top post

[ido09s]

Yes i am serious.

I say that more to protect the innocent riders against the fuck wits. If i had 10 cents for every time i had nearly been run down in the city by cycle couriers i would be a rich man. If i could have gotten a rego and reported i would have, but with no way of pin pointing the rider what could i do/

[a.davis12]

Originally Posted by ido09s

Yes i am serious.

I say that more to protect the innocent riders against the fuck wits. If i had 10 cents for every time i had nearly been run down in the city by cycle couriers i would be a rich man. If i could have gotten a rego and reported i would have, but with no way of pin pointing the rider what could i do/

MATHS TIME!
lets say you have 3000 near misses with hipsters = $300
cost of registration and maintaing registration:
$300.

no longer a rich man.


put a stick in the guys spokes.

[addmin]

video here, 2nd from the right, 2nd row
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-au&brand=ninemsn