South Australian Govt To Ban P-Platers From V8s, Modified Cars
THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT is proposing new legislation that aims to restrict P1 and P2 drivers under the age of 25 from driving a vehicle with eight cylinders or more, cars with supercharged or turbocharged engines and cars with performance-enhancing modifications.
The legislation, which will be tabled in the SA State Parliament on October 13, raises the minimum time on a learner’s permit from six to 12 month and requires L-platers to accrue at least 75 hours of supervised driving time before applying for a provisional licence.
P-platers returning from a licence disqualification cannot carry passengers between midnight and 5AM under the new laws, and drivers who fail to display their P-plates face the loss of two demerit points.
“On average 27% of all fatalities in SA each year are aged between 16 and 24,” said South Australian Road Safety Minister Michael O’Brien.
“There’s more than 76,000 P platers on our roads and these new drivers, particularly those aged between 16 and 20 years of age, are up to three times more likely to be involved in a serious road crash.
“There’s also increasing community concern about these young inexperienced drivers getting behind the wheel of high powered vehicles and we’re basing our approach on existing legislation in Queensland, NSW and Victoria.”
Exemptions will be granted for provisional drivers who own a high-powered vehicle before the ban comes into effect, as well as those who need to drive one for work purposes.
Drivers who only have access to a high-powered vehicle (such as one owned by their parents) are also exempted.
Exempted drivers must carry documentation of their status while driving, or else risk a $250 fine and the loss of three demerit points.
At this stage it’s unclear whether the new rules have any effect on turbocharged vehicles such as the Volkswagen Golf, however its unlikely the SA Government will view such cars as “high performance vehicles”.
[Source: TMR]
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sometimes its great to be just a few yrs older
On a diet........
I need myself one of those jobs......Exemptions will be granted for provisional drivers who own a high-powered vehicle before the ban comes into effect, as well as those who need to drive one for work purposes.
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Really when will legislators realise that lack of experience and fatigue is a major contributor to crashes. Give the young guys the ability to drive properly and possibly look to a horsepower restrictions, because as the article stated a TSI VW Golf is not that fast and is probably safer and easier to control than a 6 cyl falcodore! sheesh I just don't get what these guys are trying to achieve! must be getting
I'm with Birdhouse...I want a job where I HAVE to drive a Twin Turbo RX7 or a Merc SLR
I Have The Need For Speed
They just have no F**king idea.... I can't get over this 100 hours worth of parent supervision rather than learning to drive with a qualified instructor and then doing defensive driving not once or twice. The government are to blame with all this carnage on the road I sometimes wonder whether some of these government people did the 100 hours of supervision to get into these jobs, makes me so angry.....
I still reckon they need to do a full defensive driving course but I know they will never do that.
I Have The Need For Speed
It's simple do the defensive course or you don't get a driver's licence fullstop what is so hard, the government would sooner take money off us from our rates and toll bridges and tunnels and so on and they spend so much time trying to work out how to fix the carnage with younger drivers and penalise everybody else by spending millions on camera's which I don't have a problem with never been zapped by a fixed camera or vans parked on the side of the road in fact 1988 was my last speeding ticket, I've self taught myself from racing Go Karts,certain things are just left for the track or private property... Please give me some control I'll fix it......
To do a defensive driving course would mean they would have to get off their a$$ to do something...tolls, rates ect they just sign a piece of paper and we cop the bill.
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This idea simply just does not work.
Watch the news, people are still killing themselves, and doing stupid things on the road in "legal" cars.
All the law in nsw has done is increased the amount of people driving without their p plates
police don't seem to enforce the law, i see p players in turbo and v8s quite often, and police next to an evo lancer with p plates at the traffic lights.
Defensive driving cources I believe are not the answer either. It's all about the attitude of young drivers. If you teach a young person how to control a slide, what do you think he will do?
Answer - show off to their mates, look what I can do.
And everybody knows, it doesn't matter how good you are, mistakes are easily made
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