Comments on: Reduction in our Road Toll http://www.simpleandloveable.com/reduction-in-our-road-toll How to make Simple and Loveable businesses Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:07:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Nat http://www.simpleandloveable.com/reduction-in-our-road-toll/comment-page-1#comment-6641 Nat Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:34:56 +0000 http://www.simpleandloveable.com/reduction-in-our-road-toll#comment-6641 Ah huh! I actually used that once when there was some weirdo in a van literally trying to ram our car off the motorway while swearing and frantically making awful motions at us. The police were very helpful and got all the details and promised to follow it up. One thing I've learned is that the emergency services never get annoyed with over dramatics - they would rather have the choice to follow it up or not. Ah huh! I actually used that once when there was some weirdo in a van literally trying to ram our car off the motorway while swearing and frantically making awful motions at us.

The police were very helpful and got all the details and promised to follow it up. One thing I’ve learned is that the emergency services never get annoyed with over dramatics – they would rather have the choice to follow it up or not.

]]> By: Mathew Sanders http://www.simpleandloveable.com/reduction-in-our-road-toll/comment-page-1#comment-6640 Mathew Sanders Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:05:12 +0000 http://www.simpleandloveable.com/reduction-in-our-road-toll#comment-6640 That's an interesting point about New Zealander's not wanting to mix up with other people's business. I was driving back from Akoroa to Christchurch last weekend and in a trail of about 5 slooowly moving cars up the winding hill. A car came up behind us and overtook us very dangerously on a corner, and proceeded to jumpfrog dangerously past the other cars. There was a bit of a discussion about whether we should report the driving to the police (apparently you can call *555 to report dangerous driving). Eventually we decided we should, but got a message on *555 that the service was taking a break or something :-( To be honest, I'm not really sure what the point of *555 is - I've used it in the past to let people know when traffic lights are out of action, but didn't know you could use it for bad driving. A little Googling and I found this form on the NZ Police website to alert of bad drivers: http://police.govt.nz/service/road/roadwatch.html But it doesn't really explain what the benefit or the result of doing this would be. That’s an interesting point about New Zealander’s not wanting to mix up with other people’s business. I was driving back from Akoroa to Christchurch last weekend and in a trail of about 5 slooowly moving cars up the winding hill.

A car came up behind us and overtook us very dangerously on a corner, and proceeded to jumpfrog dangerously past the other cars.

There was a bit of a discussion about whether we should report the driving to the police (apparently you can call *555 to report dangerous driving). Eventually we decided we should, but got a message on *555 that the service was taking a break or something :-(

To be honest, I’m not really sure what the point of *555 is – I’ve used it in the past to let people know when traffic lights are out of action, but didn’t know you could use it for bad driving.

A little Googling and I found this form on the NZ Police website to alert of bad drivers: http://police.govt.nz/service/road/roadwatch.html

But it doesn’t really explain what the benefit or the result of doing this would be.

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