HIGH POWERED CARS AND P.PLATE DRIVERS

All we hear is that Probationary drivers are banned from driving high powered cars in Victoria.

This gives us a false sense of security.

Not all high powered cars are covered in the legislation

In recent years this law has been poorly policed because of the difficulty in identifying such cars.

Victoria has not kept up with the advancement of cars and many young people have needlessly died because of this.

Police, parents and probationary drivers cannot always confirm easily wether a car is high powered or not just from its appearance.

WACD would like to see all high powered cars identified by the registration sticker. This would be achieved by a P with a cross through it in the corner of the registration label.

Every parent, probationary driver and Police Officer should be able to look at a car and identify immediately whether it is too powerful for inexperienced drivers.

Not all cars are obviously ‘hotted’ up. It isn’t just ‘hoon’ drivers who are crashing high powered cars. Cars often are plain and simply too powerful for inexperienced drivers, especially when there isn’t any training required to obtain a drivers licence.

A driver can learn in a high powered car, get a licence without any training, and then without any restrictions the day he obtains his licence he can carry as many passengers as he likes. All too often this ends in tragedy.

The decision needs to be taken out of young drivers hands. It is proven that High Powered cars are dangerous in inexperienced and immature hands.

Victoria has restrictions on High Powered cars BUT only certain cars are covered. The public are not told this. All the public hear is that probationary drivers are not allowed to drive high powered cars in Victoria. They don’t explain the fine print and that is misleading. This gives a false sense of security to parents.

All cars that are to be registered with Vic Roads should be able to be identified by Vic Roads. This is not the case now.

The new graduated drivers licence is http://www.arrivealive.vic.gov.au/c_youngGLS_1.html supposed to be covering this area and closing the loop holes, but they have yet to disclose how they will do that.

The excuse has always been that it is too difficult to keep up with imported cars (grey imports) and private modifications.

We believe this is a very poor excuse. Every car that is registered in Victoria should have a profile with Vic Roads. It is not difficult to obtain this information; car manufacturers proudly market the performance of the vehicles. They also proudly market modifications that are available to boost performance.

Any department that had saving lives as it number one priority would not see this as a problem. So far any reason given for not being able to keep up has been inadequate.

Currently it is up to the driver to decide if a car is high powered or not. The fact that a probationary driver can purchase and register a high powered car in their name but not drive it is absurd. Why would a probationary driver buy and register a car in their name if they were not going to ever drive it?

Yet insurance of the same car does not need to be in the drivers name. The current regulations make it too easy for probationary drivers to get behind the wheel of high powered cars.

THE NEW HOON LEGISLATION IS A BIG CHANGE AND WAS POLICE AND COMMUNITY DRIVEN. IT IS THE ONLY POSITIVE CHANGE IN PREVENTING ROAD TRAUMA SINCE 2001

http://www.justice.vic.gov.au/CA256E5F0003DEF3/page/hoon+driving-hoon+driving+FAQs

The article below briefly explains a grey import. This car will be affordable to a generation of inexperienced drivers as a second hand car if the new laws are not correctly legislated.

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