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Showing posts with label Traffic. Show all posts

Saturday, June 1, 2019

Weird news - Son reported father for running red light

In school, students are taught traffic discipline, including when to stop at red lights, when to go, what are the various traffic signals. So whenever I drive, even though I follow stop lights, I get a reminder from my first-grader about following the signal, "Daddy, it's a red light, stop". Hopefully when these children grow up, they will be similarly inclined to follow traffic signals when they start driving (if driverless vehicles haven't taken over already).
The below case does seem a bit extreme though, where a 6 year old called 911 to report his own father for driving through a red light, after apparently having warned his father when he was doing that, even though his father tried to convince the son that he was taking a right turn which was perfectly legal. The police department put the call to their Facebook page to show the kind of calls they get, and not in a negative way (link to article):
When the light went red but the driver turned anyway, officer Robbie Richardson's training kicked in. Green meant go, yellow meant slow, and red, he was certain, meant stop. But the driver, turning right, just blew on through the light, his crime all but undetected. Officer Richardson, who spends his free time patrolling the streets of his Boston-area neighborhood, couldn't stand the injustice of it all - especially since the delinquent driver was his dad, and Richardson, a sassy six-year-old who'd left his Little Tikes toy cop cruiser at home, was in the back seat. So the kindergartner did what any good purveyor of justice would do, family loyalty be damned: he called 911.

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Weird news - A traffic fine for a 6 year old boy on a toy motorcycle in Mexico

One normally assumes that traffic fines are given when people break traffic rules, and you normally associate this with people who do speeding, drive when drunk, or jump a red light, or do some other action that violates a rule meant for traffic safety. There is no restriction that such laws are only meant for adults, including teenagers who are more prone to do rule breaking antics on the road.
But, how often have you heard about a young boy being prosecuted for a driving offence, especially a boy as young as 6 years old, fined for a traffic incident, and with his toy vehicle having been impounded. However, after some amount of delay and some amount of controversy, the vehicle was returned and the traffic citation was voided (link to article):

A six-year-old Mexican boy has been fined for riding his toy motorcycle, a Christmas gift, without a licence and for reckless driving, after he crashed it into an SUV.
The incident occurred on December 27 in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, when the boy, Gael Santiago was riding his bike near his home, and collided with an SUV that had jumped a stop sign, Fox News quoted a Mexican police spokesperson as telling Spanish news agency EFE.
Terming the charges as "ridiculous", the boy's mother , Karla Noriega said it showed lack of judgement on the part of the traffic police who fined the boy and impounded his miniature gasoline-powered bike.
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Monday, September 7, 2009

A country changing direction of driving (from right to left)

For people in the United States, Europe, and many other countries, drivers drive on the right side of the road, and are totally used to that way of driving. When they arrive in countries that were earlier part of the British Empire such as India, Australia, New Zealand, and of course, Great Britain, they are not used to suddenly seeing vehicles driving on the wrong side of the road (in these countries, people drive on the left side of the road). It can be very unsettling, and for people moving from one type of country to another, it can be very difficult to drive on the road; it takes time to get used to the traffic coming from an unexpected side. So, what happens when a country (even if it is a small country) decides to move from one side to another, and that too, the reason being that importing cars are cheaper (link to article):


Samoa will switch its driving from the right side to the left side of the road on Monday in a move opponents have called ill-conceived and said will lead to dozens of wrecks and fatalities. Proponents tout the change, which no other country has attempted since the 1970s, as making economic sense.
The nation has declared Monday and Tuesday holidays for people to adjust to the change and banned alcohol sales for the next three days. Until now, most of the cars in the Pacific island nation have been imported from the United States, where drivers travel on the right side, and Samoa's neighbor, American Samoa. The change will allow the thousands of expatriate Samoans who live in their nation's biggest neighbors, New Zealand and Australia, to send used -- and therefore, cheaper -- cars to their families back home. In both those countries, drivers travel on the left side of the road.

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