FTO AUSTRALIA

Just got a fine for "failing to obey a yellow signal" for going through a yellow light in the wet, and not trusting my tyres/brakes
The office said that they had been following us for a while (3 FTOs driving in a row), so was probably just waiting for an excuse to pull us over

If in the wet, challenge it..

1) Your car does not have ABS
2) The age of the vehicle means less responsive equipment.
3) Th roads were wet, with oil residue, making it more slippery.

You did not feel safe in stopping at the yellow as it would have caused a dangerous situation. Either by someone slamming into you, or you not being able to stop fully in time due to the car sliding..

Technikhaus wrote:Just got a fine for "failing to obey a yellow signal" for going through a yellow light in the wet, and not trusting my tyres/brakes

Is that even a valid law!? How f**king ridiculous! So now if we see a yellow light we're supposed to immediately slam on our brakes regardless of whether we will stop before the intersection or not!

Problem is to challenge it means taking it to court which of course is a massive PITA. Which your copper mate knows of course ...
Maybe a Current Affair might be interested? hehe

It's amber... not yellow... yellow are indicators

Also,
NZ and aussie laws are the same.

Green = proceed if safe
Amber = stop if it is safely possible
Red = stop

http://mylicence.sa.gov.au/road-rules/t ... fic-lights

SchumieFan wrote:http://mylicence.sa.gov.au/road-rules/t ... fic-lights

Wow, you're brave linking something from a South Australian government site, for some reason we don't follow a lot of the same laws between states . There are always differences in opinion

But yea I would challenge that as it was unsafe to stop without causing a dangerous situation

SchumieFan wrote:It's amber... not yellow... yellow are indicators

It's orange u fkn spastics

rock_it wrote:If in the wet, challenge it..

1) Your car does not have ABS
2) The age of the vehicle means less responsive equipment.
3) Th roads were wet, with oil residue, making it more slippery.

You did not feel safe in stopping at the yellow as it would have caused a dangerous situation. Either by someone slamming into you, or you not being able to stop fully in time due to the car sliding..

I tried to talk to the officer but he refused to listen to anything that I had to say. Had I attempted to stop at the lights, either I would have ended part way into the intersection, or the officer would have rear ended me (Payback for when I hit one of their cars? ) but yeah he was rediculous.

Shane001 wrote: Is that even a valid law!? How f**king ridiculous! So now if we see a yellow light we're supposed to immediately slam on our brakes regardless of whether we will stop before the intersection or not!

Problem is to challenge it means taking it to court which of course is a massive PITA. Which your copper mate knows of course ...
Maybe a Current Affair might be interested? hehe

I tried to look up anything that mentions being fined for it, but I couldn't find anything. I'm pissed off at him to say the least... I do plan on challenging it if possible,
first step is an angry letter to then against it. I shall be requesting dash cam footage if available.

SchumieFan wrote:It's amber... not yellow... yellow are indicators

SchumieFan wrote:Also,
NZ and aussie laws are the same.

Green = proceed if safe
Amber = stop if it is safely possible
Red = stop

http://mylicence.sa.gov.au/road-rules/t ... fic-lights

destinationtoby wrote:

SchumieFan wrote:It's amber... not yellow... yellow are indicators

It's orange u fkn spastics

According to the fine, and according to the NZ road-code it's yellow

It's the weirdest yellow I've ever seen...


But yes I shall be writing in against the fine, on multiple points:

1) I COULDN'T STOP!

2) The officer admitted to having followed us for a while, the fact that no complaints had been laid against us by the public, we could plead discrimination as he was following us waiting for the slightest mistake to pull us over. (The officer had to change directions on a main road to follow us, as he was heading towards town, and we were leaving town.


The only good thing the officer did, was let me go without a fine for driving out of my license conditions. Here in NZ on your Restricted license, you aren't allowed to drive after 10PM, it was 10:03PM when he pulled me over, and the place we were heading to was about 300M down the road, so he let me park up there.

Look up the relevant Road Traffic Act on your state/region's parliamentary legislation website (all statutes are publicly accessible) and find the relevant section to your offence. When presenting your case to the court, show them the relevant section of the act as an indicator that you did not contravene any of the existing legislation and thus should not be charged.

That'll save you and the courts a f**k-tonne of time and money