Double Demerits Christmas/New Year reminder. STARTING MIDNIGHT TONIGHT

[Ryven]

Just a friendly/early reminder: The "Christmas/New Year" double demerit points period will be running...

Fri 18th Dec 2009 – Sun 3rd Jan 2010

Double Demerits - Office of Road and Safety

The Double Demerit Points initiative in relation to speeding, drink driving and nonuse of seatbelt offences will continue in Western Australia on long weekends and holiday periods. This does not include doubling the fines for these offences (ie. there is no “revenue raising”).

A few of you have been pulled over recently for allegedly exceeding the speed limit, perhaps in some cases related to the "pre-Christmas blitz" they're bragging about lately. Just remember over the coming weeks and particularly during the double demerit period there will be more visible major police anti-speeding/drink driving setups, which in turn will probably lead to more police issuing yellow stickers.

I'm not going to tell anyone to slow down, drive/ride carefully, always wear your gear. Those are decisions you need to make for yourselves. Just nice to have the information easily accessible, given it's not generally well advertised.

[Dragunov-21]

Cheers Ryven. Any idea whether the dates are likely to be the same nationwide, or different in different states?

[Para045]

Cheers Ryven. Any idea whether the dates are likely to be the same nationwide, or different in different states?

They usually vary from state to state as do the penalties

[Ryven]

Yep, couldn't comment on Tasmania. Haven't looked into any other states.

Edit: Just looked. The Taswegians are even further behind than us. As far as I can see, they're still only looking at trialling double demerit points. So, at a guess, nothing to worry about, at least for this year.

http://www.themercury.com.au/article...ania-news.html May be of interest...

The double demerit periods would cover speeding, reckless driving, not wearing a seat belt, not wearing a motorcycle helmet and illegally riding in the back of utilities and trucks.

Makes me wonder... I don't remember the last time I've seen someone travelling in the tray of a ute on a gazetted road... Tasmania for most bogan state?

[Sentry]

Yeah, I got pinged for riding in the back of a ute in Lancelin. Originally the ute was pulled over because the driver wasn't wearing a seatbelt. Nice enough cop; he didn't ping me for street drinking too!

[Browneyedgirl]

is it my imagination....or does the time frame for this double demerit thing over christmas get longer each year

[Chester_Firecracker]

May as well make it double demerits for the whole of Jan/Feb.

No let's make that the whole bloody year.

[Ryven]

2008

Australia Day – Friday 25 January to Monday 28 Jan 2008;
Labour Day – Friday 29 February to Monday 3 March 2008;
Easter – Thursday 20 March to Monday 24 March 2008;
Anzac Day – Thursday 24 April to Sunday 27 April 2008;
Foundation Day – Friday 30 May to Monday 2 June 2008;
Queen’s Birthday – Friday 26 to Monday 29 September 2008;
Christmas and New Year – Fri 19 Dec 2008 to Sun 4 Jan 2009.

2009
Australia Day Fri 23rd Jan – Mon 26th Jan
Labour Day Fri 27th Feb – Mon 2nd March
Easter Thurs 9th April – Mon 13th April
ANZAC Day Fri 24th April – Mon 27th April
Foundation Day Fri 29th May – Mon 1st June
Queen’s Birthday Fri 25th Sept – Mon 28th Sept
Christmas / New Year Fri 18th Dec 2009 – Sun 3rd Jan 2010

Pretty well the same as last year.

[scarecrow]

geez didnt realise they started so early... cheers for the heads up!!
they're always out to spoil our fun...

[Cap'n James086]

I don't mind the double demerit campaigns, they clearly aren't revenue raising (any more than usual). I still think speeding is punished way too harshly already, but double demerits is a safety effort I support as it doesn't focus on money.

[Ryven]

Less than a week to go.

[Hewzie]

As silly as it might seem...can you imagine the fist-thumping etc that would go on in Police HQ if all drivers in WA obeyed speed limits for say 2 weeks and no infringement notices were issued??? They'd be looking for someone to blame!!! I said it was silly....

[Ryven]

I imagine many in TEG would be terrified for their jobs due to not meeting quotas...

[TurboR1]

Considering how I normally ride...

[Barfridge]

I imagine many in TEG would be terrified for their jobs due to not meeting quotas...

We all know they can invent infringements for quotas, they've been at it for a long time and are quite good at it.

But with the average Perth driver, they don't often need to resort to that.

[zooyork]

I was under the impression NSW have Double Demerits in place for the whole of December and most of January... I know they were already in place when i was driving from Canberra to Brisbane a few weeks ago.

WA's shorter Double Demerit period could actually be a GOOD thing where we are behind other states for a change

[Ryven]

Yaaay!

[=Stevo=]

Thanks, I completely forgot...

Before I could afford to accrue only one point, now I can afford none - damn double demerits wrecking my double or nothing... that quadrupley shit.

Time to stick to the actual limit, not 10kmh over - this is going to kill me for the short trips to the shops

[Crashlington]

just so you know, 10kph is 2 demerits normally.

so even for double or nothing, 10kph over is bye bye licence

[=Stevo=]

0-9 kmh, I meant... to get all technical... but yes, you are correct

I'll stick in the 0 - 9 kmh bracket