School Zone Santa .Com

Last Friday I was passed (I was travelling under 80 kmh)on the Woranora bridge by a police station wagon going up towards Menai and I followed him/her left off the start of the Bangor bypass up onto Menai rd.

Then in front of me about 15-20 meters before Pryree st, this police wagon did a U-turn illegally over unbroken lines and I thought he must have spotted driver error of a car coming the other way.

But no he pulled off the road up onto the nature strip, and was still there 1 1/2 hrs later as he was operating an in car speed camera for the school zone there.

Why didn't he turn left at the next street do a proper u-turn, as the rest of us would have to, and then set up his radar camera.

It was 7.45 am and the school zone doesn't start till 8 am, so he had time to do the right thing and there are not many school children around (in danger) at that time of the morning.

It was a technical breach and his u-turn wasn't dangerous, but if he took a photo of a car doing 45 kmh at 8.10am in this deserted school zone, can the the driver say that as there were no children around and as it's really only a "technical" breach would he get off the fine and not loose the 4 demerit points?

I had a job in Menai this morning and for interest sake I took my camera and was there at 7.45 to see if there was a repeat performance, but no.

How many drivers were caught out last Friday at this school zone because they didn't realize it was school zone time?

It's a case of do as I say, not as I do, I can blatantly disregard the law, but you may very well do your license, if you are unaware of the time and go over 40kmh on my watch.

The Police vehicle I saw doing the alledged illegal u-turn has the
rego no YMR 472