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Another teens Life lost...Qld new road rules...
cookclan by cookclan Young Parent(June 2007) (rank 3rd)
On the weekend one of my sons mates was in a car accident...Young kids driving fast and not enough experience to do so...It scares me on a constant basis each time I let him get in the car with one of his mates...Cars and full of teenage rowdy kids and showing off is a mixture for danger...I drive the kids around and I after 17 years experience behind the wheel have to ask them to calm down when I am driving....Well last night as my son and a group of his friends were watching the state of origin and having a great time a call came through...The kids mate had passed away...Another young life gone...Another family feeling the pain of loss and asking why?  And a whole group of mates having to feel the emotions of loss again of a much loved mate....

Well in Qld on the first of July the rules for new teenage drivers are changing and drastically...Here are some of the new rules which are being put into place to help save our teenagers on the roads...

Kids will be able to in Qld get their learners at the age of 16 now but will have to stay with their L plates for at least 12 months...

Learners will now have to show experience...This includes showing logged suppervised experience 100 hours with 10 of the hours being night driving experience...

The first professional 10 hours of lessons will count for 30 hours in the log book..To help encourage kids to get professional lessons rather than learning mum or dads little faults(who me hehe)...

These are just a few of the new rules that will be coming in...The whole licensing shake up is the biggest in Qld ever and I think it is way past due...Our younger generation in Qld are dieing and it is a waste of such a young life...

I think that if the new rules can save some lives then it is well worth it no matter how much our teens might think it is unfair....

I have always said that experience is what makes us better drivers and more confident in our driving abilities...So if you are intersted in the new laws you can see the rest of them here...

We raise our kids as safetly as we can and we let the aapron strings loose slowly as they grow into teenagers and this will make us just a little more confident as we wave goodbye to them in the driveway as they drive off....

Have a great day
Cheers
Angie
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nell18-3
5.00 (Excellent) | June 2007 | nell18-3
Re: Another teens Life lost...Qld new road rules...

I'm still nervous everytime my daughter drives and I don't hear from her that the journey is over, too many bad memories of the bad car crash she was in

~Excellent article Angie

xxx



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blackwidowkate
5.00 (Excellent) | June 2007 | blackwidowkate
Re: Another teens Life lost...Qld new road rules...
Hi
Excellent article
Sad time to be reading it as well with  once again bringing it home with the 2 babies that died all because of the fact the father thought speeding and drinking and hooning in cars was funny.
He ran away and left his babies to die.  So sad.
Too many young lives are being lost
I do not relish the fact of Megan getting her learners at 16.  It is too young for so much power regardless.
So what they have to have 100 hours driving experience.  Why give them a credit of 30 hours for 10 hours with a driving school.
They still have had only 10 hours experience.  At least half of your driving school experience is parked beside the road talking and the instructor telling you different stuff. 
How are they going to prove they have had another 70 hours anyway.  How many parents tired of taking the kids out will sign of on extra hours.  How many friends will sign of on supposed hours driving.  It is all a total joke
May as well hand them a gun letting them behind the wheel at 16.  Perfect age for all the hormones and everything kicking in and distracting them.  No mobile phones...what a joke.  What 16 yr old does not have a mobile phone.  They are not policing this one as it is with normal drivers. 
All so they can have a provisional license at 17 so they can drive to work or school.  
If they want to get serious raise the licencing age.
Limit passengers apart from immediate family to 1 or even zero
Only 1 passenger after 11pm....hahahahaha like this is going to make a difference
Do they think accidents only happen after midnight.
Sorry to be so long but I could go on for hours
Once again too little way too late
Luv Deb



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Ngairi
3.00 (Average) | June 2007 | Ngairi
Re: Another teens Life lost...Qld new road rules...

I alsos like the fact that cars are limited to 6 cycllinders not allowing them to drive V8's etc or anything hotted up until they are 25 and also passenger restrictions. I don't like the fact they can get their learners at 16, even tho they have to hold them for a year. We couldn't get our learners until we turned 17 and had to hold for 6 weeks at least. I would like to see that you can't get your licence til they are 21 (but only cause I have one about to go for his learners in, he tells me, 10 weeks! Help!)

Leisa



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      blackwidowkate
5.00 (Excellent) | June 2007 | blackwidowkate
Re: Another teens Life lost...Qld new road rules...
Hi
Want a even scarier thought. 
The 6 cylinders of today have more power to weight ration than the V8's of our time.
Some of the 4 cyls have more power to weight ration than our old 253 v8 commodore.
Passenger restrictions aren't real enough
Luv Deb


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Jessgore
5.00 (Excellent) | June 2007 | Jessgore
Re: Another teens Life lost...Qld new road rules...
The other night my husband stumbled onto some adds not unlike the TAC adds they have in Victoria... Although I believe these ones came from England. I will not link it as it is horrible and I believe will be distressing I mean really distressing to anyone here who sees it...

We watched and it had my husband and I in tears.. And still two days later it is in our minds.. Now I am sure if they showed adds like this one we watched which involved a mother walking her baby in a pram, there would no longer be anyone speeding...  IT was the most horrific thing I have ever seen...

I myself don't speed...   My father is a police officer and before I got my licence brought home some rather grafic photos of accidents... And let me say they worked enough for me...

There really does need to be more awareness these days...


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      cookclan
5.00 (Excellent) | June 2007 | cookclan
Re: Another teens Life lost...Qld new road rules...
They show them here matey...It is horrible and another with a young girl walking across the road it is devastating but the times of the days they show these are not when our teens are awake maybe they need to see these just to realise how real it is...I dont know just my thoughts but


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           Jessgore
5.00 (Excellent) | June 2007 | Jessgore
Re: Another teens Life lost...Qld new road rules...
My dad is a traffic cop and used to a long time ago go to schools to talk about stuff like this..  But for some reason i believe they don't do it any more.. They really should...


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MummaBear
5.00 (Excellent) | June 2007 | MummaBear
Re: Another teens Life lost...Qld new road rules...
They are talking about new laws.  What's the point in making new laws when the current laws are not enforced? We need to take a zero-tolerance approach to speeding! Last year, every single week there was a front-page story of a teen killed in a car accident.  The one that hit me the hardest and still stays with me is the September 05 accident involving 4 teens ages 16/17.  They all died.  They hit the tree at a tremendous speed, and the skidmarks were so long they were going so much faster then when they hit the tree.  I can't remember details, my eyes get teary just thinking of it.  Every week in North Qld at least 1 teenager was being killed on our roads.  Kids drive fast.  There is no consequence.  Death is not a consequence to them because they think they're invincible.  The laws need to be enforced.  Give them fines, take their cars away from them, don't bring in harsher penalties until these ones are enforced.  Too many kids are dying on our roads.  It's a sore topic for me because when I was 18 and planning my friend's 18th party with her, which was 2 weeks after graduating from year 12, she was taken away.  She didn't finish year 12.  She died on the Sunday morning before graduation, which was Thursday of that week.  She was not the driver at fault.  The driver at fault overtook a truck on a blind corner travelling at speeds exceeding 150km/hour.  The driver was 19 and he was killed instantly.  My bext friend was killed instantly.  Her boyfriend was on life support for 6 months before dying.  3 young kids dead in an instant because of speeding.  It's heartbreaking.


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Shellshell
5.00 (Excellent) | June 2007 | Shellshell
Re: Another teens Life lost...Qld new road rules...

Heartbreaking for all parents/relatives and friends who lose a loved one through such a sad tragedy. About time they brought new and tougher rules for younger drivers.

Again superb advice Angie, well done to you to bring this up!

 Shelley



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hermy
5.00 (Excellent) | June 2007 | hermy
Re: Another teens Life lost...Qld new road rules...
i am glad they are doing this, they have to keep doing it to try and save some lives.....my son is well over due to get his licence but he keeps putting it off....when i asked him why , he answered cause he scared.....i thought scared of not passing the test.....but no...he is scared of having an accident.....the way his friends who already have their licence drive has made him scared because in a certain way i think he thinks he has to keep up with them......we had a really long talk about it....hopefully he knows he doesn't have to be like them.......i am not rushing him, as far as i am cocerned he can take his time.....great advice Angie......this really need to be spoken about so much more.....regards Sandra xxx


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Kellzacar
5.00 (Excellent) | June 2007 | Kellzacar
Re: Another teens Life lost...Qld new road rules...
Sadly it seems that the message about driving just isn't getting through to our teens . . .

I cringe every time Sam is out and about because she thinks is fun to stupid things in cars and sadly so do her friends. I've even backed off with the driving lessons because she is so cocky. . . . 

As parents we can only live in hope and I really feel for these parents who lose children this way . . . .

Cheers Kellz


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cazza
5.00 (Excellent) | June 2007 | cazza
Re: Another teens Life lost...Qld new road rules...
that is a sad tragedy and i really feel for you parents with teens as it scares me so much as to what its going to be like when my kids reach teens..

Thank you for sharing this info with us, and hope that the new laws just saves one families heartache...

My thoughts are with ur son angie....


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Libby24
5.00 (Excellent) | June 2007 | Libby24
Re: Another teens Life lost...Qld new road rules...
My heart goes out to those families. Where i live we have a lot of crashes on the corner of the hwy. one we heard and went to see 5 in the car 1 survived. they were racing another car. the odomiter stopped at 180km/h and the engine was a good 100m away from the car over a hill. but this is nothing new. every weekend it is all we hear down this bit of the road. they are either racing or trying to drift around the corners. Even with this new system i think they need the advanced training as well. My brother in law is a cop her in W.A. and he has had to knock a few times to the parent of kids and he is only 21.

R.I.P.


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mummy2girls
4.50 (Excellent) | June 2007 | mummy2girls
Re: Another teens Life lost...Qld new road rules...

now i get why the photo is on!!!

what an awful tragedy...



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