VW Golf caught hooning in Vic 167kmh on Westgate

[OilBurna]

Hope no one from here

Hoon caught doing 167km/h in 80km/h zone on West Gate Freeway hours before government rules out curfews for young drivers | Herald Sun

[Tim]

I dont think many people are gonna die doing 167 on the westgate fwy. Especially if the roads were relatively empty at the time. Theyre just using that to try and prove a shakey point theyre trying to make.

167 on a suburban street would have been inexcusable though.
Curfews for young drivers is just stupid. Educate drivers instead of wrapping them in cotton wool. There are probably more people out there crashing their cars whilst driving at or below the speed limit. Lets focus on them for a change.

[Water Boy]

Man learning to drive these days is BS. They dont teach you how to drive, the DC's teach who only how to past the most pathetic test in the world.

Speeding isnt worth it either, take it to the track...

[Rocket36]

Last I checked, that's called SPEEDING...

Getting so sick of the cardigans and their "hoon" laws. EVERYTHING covered under anti-hoon legislation was ALREADY COVERED by an existing law. So sick of this crap. I don't condone breaking the law but I hate that they create new laws for the cardigans and the naive in order to confiscate someone's car.

[schoona]

I dont think many people are gonna die doing 167 on the westgate fwy. Especially if the roads were relatively empty at the time. Theyre just using that to try and prove a shakey point theyre trying to make.

167 on a suburban street would have been inexcusable though.
Curfews for young drivers is just stupid. Educate drivers instead of wrapping them in cotton wool. There are probably more people out there crashing their cars whilst driving at or below the speed limit. Lets focus on them for a change.

Apart from the stupidity of my incident, the "conditions" were fine for what I was doing. The reason I'm saying this is because:

Today I was the most scared I have ever been in a car and was a bee's **** away from an accident, of which it would have been my fault.
I have lost my licence, and have appealed a second suspension on the basis of points, of which I find out the outcome on June 17. I was leaving tafe today on my way home, and it's pouring down rain. I was travelling at 60km/h (the speed limit) following a car with a good gap. I got unstuck because we were approaching a speed camera, in my new found paranoia, I check and double check my speed so much it's not funny. In any case whilst looking down the driver in front had decided to make a right hand turn, of which there is no turning lane, and pulled up rather quickly. I had to jump on the picks, I locked up and steer around the car in front. I got lucky there was nobody on the inside lane 3/4.

My fault, only heart in mouth time in a car. Oh and when I got pulled over of course.

But yeah, I didn't feell adequately equipped and skilled to REALLY have control of that situation. I hope it presents itself not as my 'negligence' but as what I'm trying to say.

[TazzyVR6]

Man learning to drive these days is BS. They dont teach you how to drive, the DC's teach who only how to past the most pathetic test in the world.

Speeding isnt worth it either, take it to the track...

That's it right there. It's scarey that X hours means you can drive. A year or two back John Bow tried to start a driver training program for young people here in Tasmania but the government shot it down as they thought it would promote hooning (as it was on a race track) and make young drivers "overconfident"!!! Yes X hours (or what used to be called experience) gives you the ability to confidently interact with traffic and drive a car smoothly but without being put into an extreme situation in a safe environment first then how are young people meant to know how to react in a dangerous situation, whether it's their own fault or not! If the government was serious about saving young people then they would subsidise driver training and make it compulsory before sitting your driving test. But hey, that's a bit more of a long term fix and we need a bandaid, it's an election year people!!!

[maca]

Must've been a very loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong stretch of road.

[Rocket36]

Why? 167kph isn't a difficult speed to do.

[Tim]

Must've been a very loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong stretch of road.

westgate fwy is as long and straight and wide as they come really which is why the whole story is a wank.


It says it was an 80 zone but that was probably some unmanned roadwork area or something no doubt.

[maca]

Why? 167kph isn't a difficult speed to do.

Depends on what car it is...

[Rocket36]

Hahaha... I'd do it in an Excel. It's not that fast. Especially for a German car.

[Buller_Scott]

I hope it presents itself not as my 'negligence' but as what I'm trying to say.

yeah- see, this is where i have a problem, too. it's no longer enough to just flow with the traffic.

you gotta be checking your speedo every 3 seconds, and its a no-win situation.

you have a prang? you're covered by insurance, because you were NOT speeding..... because your eyes were locked on the speedo so much that you missed a situation that warranted your eyes being on the road.

you dont have a prang, then it's because you're gauging the road, the sidewalks, side streets, and all the other elements on the road, and the moment that you add on the equivalent speed of a drunkard stumbling home from the pub on a saturday night, you're nabbed.

awesome system. it aint gonna change, though.

any amount of protest, and suggestions for a better system, will simply be met with "hmmmm, it's looking like more and more australian motorists do not approve of our road laws which, by definition, must mean that more and more australians must be turning into hoons".

just another reason why we're a tie-me-kangaroo-down-sport laughing stock on the global stage.

[Peter Jones]

Must've been a very loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong stretch of road.

Not really, my MK1 gets to 171Km/h in about 500 metres. (On a racetrack)


Pete

[Stephy]

That's it right there. It's scarey that X hours means you can drive. A year or two back John Bow tried to start a driver training program for young people here in Tasmania but the government shot it down as they thought it would promote hooning (as it was on a race track) and make young drivers "overconfident"!!! Yes X hours (or what used to be called experience) gives you the ability to confidently interact with traffic and drive a car smoothly but without being put into an extreme situation in a safe environment first then how are young people meant to know how to react in a dangerous situation, whether it's their own fault or not! If the government was serious about saving young people then they would subsidise driver training and make it compulsory before sitting your driving test. But hey, that's a bit more of a long term fix and we need a bandaid, it's an election year people!!!

Ditto that. I did some of that "hooligan"driver training down here, it did teach me a lot of things and made my insurance premium go down too (makes me feel a bit old...) and i am proud, i've never been involved in a moving accident. Both times my car was hit, it was locked and parked. (and i drive A LOT) So i think there is some good in this sort of training.

But really - speeding (super speeding like those people where doing) = bad news, no matter how safe you think you are when you do it.

Still - curious to know what model golf it was... VR6? R32? GTI? ...CL?

[Speed]

Classic case of police saying what do they have to do to get the message across.
Yet speed limits have come down whilst cars have become safer.

I once saw a marked cop car negotiate a right angled corner with one hand whilst clearly using their mobile phone at night (dark) with no friggin lights on!

What do we have to do to get the message across that they are hippocrites!

I'm all for safety of our kids but 40 zones on a main road with a baracade on the medium strip and a walk-overpass AND a speed camera is a bad joke
and the coppers are the only one's laughing!!!

Bout bloody time they invested some money into improving the quality of our roads. Its not like they don't get the money from tax.. Raaaaa!