Not sure how current this is, but was sent it today just incase you are not aware ....
New POLICE Fines in Queensland. Be careful.
NEW Qld Road Rules which apply from now.
$256 + 0 points Driving with person or animal on lap
$44 + 0 points Reversing for longer than necessary
$256 + 1 point Following another vehicle too closely
$256 + 0 points Driving without a clear view in all directions
$66 + 2 points Driving in right-hand lane of a multi-lane road with an 80km/h or higher limit
$44 + 0 points Entering an intersection when the road beyond is blocked
$44 + 0 points Parking/stopping within 10m of an intersection without a traffic light
$88 + 0 points Making a U-turn at an intersection controlled by lights
$198 + 3 points Making a U-turn across a single or double continuous line
$352 + 2 points Playing loud music
$66 + 0 points Tooting the horn
$330 + 3 points Using mobile phone including use by cyclists
$44 + 0 points Leaving vehicle without handbrake left on Having Sat Nav in an impeding position - supposed to be in bottom right hand in front of driver Failing to have a hand on the wheel while stopped at lights
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The Maccas ....
2013 Avida Esperance Motorhome - based in northern NSW.
???
The Sat-Nav one doesn't make sense...
Bottom right hand in front of driver means ONLY the driver can operate it...
But it's against the Law for the driver to operate/update it...
Oh...!!! NOW I see...
They're encouraging the navigator to crawl over onto the driver's lap... $256 fine...
And $352 for playing loud music...
Well... I'm corned-beef...
Only way I can hear my Mozart is with the volume cranked up to 9 or 10...
Sorry Officer, I didn't hear your sirens - I was listening to Wolfgang's Clarinet Concerto (in B-flat)
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Joe and Sheila - Poms until 1987. Nissan 3L Patrol pulling a Jayco 17.55-3 Discovery.
Hi all. Absolutely love the fine for loud music. How often have you pulled up at the lights and some dough headed yobbo pulls up alongside with the boom boom going at 140 Db and you can feel your car vibrating. Give them the woolly eyeball and they just stare vacantly back at you as though they are the only person on the planet. A very good opportunity for the law to relieve these dickwits of some of their fun money and make the roads more enjoyable.
