Cars & Transportation

P Plate Laws

Cars & Transportation

Posted by: cmayfield91

22nd Feb 2010 01:46pm

As a P2 plate holder I find that the laws put upon young drivers is ridiculous. First the cost of license fees is astronomical as well as insurance. I own a 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer - which I paid for myself and have had it for about a year. I have a 3 year no accident or fine report and GIO wanted to charge me $6000. I shopped around to find that NRMA gave it too me for $1500 which is still quite high compared to my dad which only pays $600 for an even more expensive car. Furthermore the RTA has charged me nearly $500 in license fees and tests in the last 3 years which is a joke and also put 4 dermerit points for a 10km/h speeding fine which I see full license drivers breaking the speed limit everyday.
To me everything to do with the P plate laws is a joke and should be stopped.

lpullman
  • 17th Oct 2010 11:28am

Sorry about your son but I'm going to have to give you a kicking: one P-plater is hit's your son and you want to fry all of them? Very rational. Exactly how would driving a triple have prevented this twit from going through a red light?

A mate of mine was killed by someone pulling out onto a country road without looking. Do I want to penalise everyone with a full license? Another nearly lost his job as a truck driver 'cause he hit a tree across the road (accident investigation saved his livelihood on that one) so we should ban trees? A third was knocked off his motorbike by a moron who forgot he had a trailer - quite seriously, that's what he wrote in his police statement - ban trailers! And morons.

Please go back to watching A Current Affair and leave this discussion to the grownups.


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