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Slam the brakes on road rage
Straits Times Forum Saturday, June 8, 20
THE articles on road rage ("One road rage attack every 4 days in S'pore", May 26; and "Curbing road rage", Sunday) cited the rising number of cases that resulted in assault, from 63 in 2010 to 97 last year.
My, my. We are getting more tense under the PAP government aren’t we?
I was the victim of a road bully in April. A driver was unhappy because I had merged into the fast lane on the expressway in front of his vehicle.
Let me guess….You merged into the extreme right lane which is meant for overtaking and for the use of emergency vehicles driving at a precise 90 km/h as indicated by your speedometer and feeling real smug about it not knowing that you were actually driving at about 81 km/h as speedometers on standard cars are manufactured to read 10% optimistic. You travel at 81 km/h on a 90 km/h road, ten cars down behind you will end up at 71 km/h and 61km/h from the twentieth car. That’s how inexplicable slowdowns appeared on expressways. Doesn’t it feel great to have so much power in your hands?
On top of that the Traffic Police allows an extra 10 km/h for overtaking ie on the expressway speed limit of 90 km/h you are allowed to hit 100 km/h when you attempt an overtake. That means 110 km/h on your speedometer. You are booked for speeding based on police motorcycles with calibrated true speed speedometers or radar guns. Even Traffic Police Expressway Patrol Unit’s WRX’es and Volvos standard speedometers will read different from on board radar speed detection devices..
He retaliated by cutting in front of my car at high speed, with his right arm stuck out of his window in an obscene gesture.
No picture No talk. You can even claim he pointed a gun at you!
He then slammed on his brakes and displayed the gesture again, before walking over to yell in my face: "You better watch out!"
You rolled down your window and push your face out for his convenience?
In the 15 or so seconds it took to launch my phone's camera, he had run back to his car while displaying the obscene gesture, then sped off before I could take a photograph of his vehicle.
You need the forum boss for help in syntax. You can’t rely on SPH staff these days…..Please upgrade to a better phone if you need 15 seconds for your phone to launch into camera mode. Sigh….Unsubstantiated allegations again.
As mentioned in the articles, many such incidents go unreported and here's why.
First, drivers are ill-equipped. Many do not have in-vehicle cameras to capture evidence.
Buy one lor! Talk so much. Blame game again.
Second, the reporting system does not help.
When I made a report at the Clementi police station, I was directed to the Traffic Police.
When I went to the Traffic Police headquarters, an irate supervisor not only turned me away, but also asked who had directed me there, so she could "scold" the person for advising me incorrectly.
Why didn’t you lodge a complaint with the Traffic Police management? Worry you will be charged for making a false report?
In the end, after I filed a magistrate's complaint, the case got referred back to Clementi police station and an investigative officer called me after reviewing camera footage from the Land Transport Authority.
Called you to say what? Hello?
I have yet to hear further from the authorities.
We have yet to hear from the Police as to how they have arrived at the conclusion on the Tin Pei Lin case.
Many have asked why I bothered to make a report when I was not hurt and the system made me jump through so many hoops.
You are of the the usual Sinkie variety, dumfuck cunt?
It is precisely this passive mentality that needs to be changed to ensure road bullies are kept in check.
Cheebye ah! When Sinkies change their passive mentality, the PAP will be finished as a ruling party for sure.
More importantly, the authorities need to take these reports more seriously.
Dumbcunt, you should have reported it was a member of the AHPETC who did that to you. They would have reacted by sending a hundred policemen with riot shields to arrest the perp.
Instead of dismissing cases because of scant details, they should use the tools at their disposal to catch the road bullies.
Good idea! There should be one policeman assigned to every individual Sinkie driver 24/7.
In the May 26 article, lawyer Daniel Atticus Xu said a case is classified as "voluntarily causing hurt" if there is an assault with no dangerous weapon used.
I would like to counter that a car is a dangerous weapon in the wrong hands, and being the victim of a road bully could be a whole lot worse than being assaulted with a weapon.
Goodness Gracious Me! I had been assaulted with a dangerous weapon at least a thousand times in my 34 years of driving and still none the wiser!
Let's have more talk and more action on Singapore's road rage problem.
The stage is yours, cheebye!
Joanne Lee Li-Li (Miss)
Straits Times Forum Saturday, June 8, 20
THE articles on road rage ("One road rage attack every 4 days in S'pore", May 26; and "Curbing road rage", Sunday) cited the rising number of cases that resulted in assault, from 63 in 2010 to 97 last year.
My, my. We are getting more tense under the PAP government aren’t we?
I was the victim of a road bully in April. A driver was unhappy because I had merged into the fast lane on the expressway in front of his vehicle.
Let me guess….You merged into the extreme right lane which is meant for overtaking and for the use of emergency vehicles driving at a precise 90 km/h as indicated by your speedometer and feeling real smug about it not knowing that you were actually driving at about 81 km/h as speedometers on standard cars are manufactured to read 10% optimistic. You travel at 81 km/h on a 90 km/h road, ten cars down behind you will end up at 71 km/h and 61km/h from the twentieth car. That’s how inexplicable slowdowns appeared on expressways. Doesn’t it feel great to have so much power in your hands?
On top of that the Traffic Police allows an extra 10 km/h for overtaking ie on the expressway speed limit of 90 km/h you are allowed to hit 100 km/h when you attempt an overtake. That means 110 km/h on your speedometer. You are booked for speeding based on police motorcycles with calibrated true speed speedometers or radar guns. Even Traffic Police Expressway Patrol Unit’s WRX’es and Volvos standard speedometers will read different from on board radar speed detection devices..
He retaliated by cutting in front of my car at high speed, with his right arm stuck out of his window in an obscene gesture.
No picture No talk. You can even claim he pointed a gun at you!
He then slammed on his brakes and displayed the gesture again, before walking over to yell in my face: "You better watch out!"
You rolled down your window and push your face out for his convenience?
In the 15 or so seconds it took to launch my phone's camera, he had run back to his car while displaying the obscene gesture, then sped off before I could take a photograph of his vehicle.
You need the forum boss for help in syntax. You can’t rely on SPH staff these days…..Please upgrade to a better phone if you need 15 seconds for your phone to launch into camera mode. Sigh….Unsubstantiated allegations again.
As mentioned in the articles, many such incidents go unreported and here's why.
First, drivers are ill-equipped. Many do not have in-vehicle cameras to capture evidence.
Buy one lor! Talk so much. Blame game again.
Second, the reporting system does not help.
When I made a report at the Clementi police station, I was directed to the Traffic Police.
When I went to the Traffic Police headquarters, an irate supervisor not only turned me away, but also asked who had directed me there, so she could "scold" the person for advising me incorrectly.
Why didn’t you lodge a complaint with the Traffic Police management? Worry you will be charged for making a false report?
In the end, after I filed a magistrate's complaint, the case got referred back to Clementi police station and an investigative officer called me after reviewing camera footage from the Land Transport Authority.
Called you to say what? Hello?
I have yet to hear further from the authorities.
We have yet to hear from the Police as to how they have arrived at the conclusion on the Tin Pei Lin case.
Many have asked why I bothered to make a report when I was not hurt and the system made me jump through so many hoops.
You are of the the usual Sinkie variety, dumfuck cunt?
It is precisely this passive mentality that needs to be changed to ensure road bullies are kept in check.
Cheebye ah! When Sinkies change their passive mentality, the PAP will be finished as a ruling party for sure.
More importantly, the authorities need to take these reports more seriously.
Dumbcunt, you should have reported it was a member of the AHPETC who did that to you. They would have reacted by sending a hundred policemen with riot shields to arrest the perp.
Instead of dismissing cases because of scant details, they should use the tools at their disposal to catch the road bullies.
Good idea! There should be one policeman assigned to every individual Sinkie driver 24/7.
In the May 26 article, lawyer Daniel Atticus Xu said a case is classified as "voluntarily causing hurt" if there is an assault with no dangerous weapon used.
I would like to counter that a car is a dangerous weapon in the wrong hands, and being the victim of a road bully could be a whole lot worse than being assaulted with a weapon.
Goodness Gracious Me! I had been assaulted with a dangerous weapon at least a thousand times in my 34 years of driving and still none the wiser!
Let's have more talk and more action on Singapore's road rage problem.
The stage is yours, cheebye!
Joanne Lee Li-Li (Miss)
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