5 young men killed in high speed crash.

[Bud Bud]

Originally Posted by hemank

I think laws should be alot tougher for repeat offenders, supposdly the driver of that vehicle was done for speeding before. Sure we got the hoon legislation but how about introduce something like, cancel the repeat offenders licence. They would then need to start all over again, doing their Ls and extra driving hours. When it comes to the Ps test the driving assesor should have information on their previous driving record and thus be very strict when he or she is doing their test again.

If the media reports are correct, (disclaimer I too have a problem with sensationalised stories by media choice), then this individual had already been previously booked for "speeding" and was now due in court for failing to comply with previous penalties (namely community work duties), and was driving an unregistered car (in S.A. at the very least, this means no third party insurance so who will the 15 y-o girl sue, the driver is dead. Not sure about every other state) and was willing to take 6 passengers (5 seat belts only available) for a ride of their lives (or should I say deaths).

What possible law could they have in place to stop this mentality???? My gut feel is if the same harsher laws that you suggest were in place, then this would not have stopped this either.

Nobody wants to trivialise the enormity of this shocking occurrence but real lessons need to be learnt. Not just more knee jerk reactions made by the powers to be that just alienate these individuals even more to the point of just flaunting these even tougher laws to the extreme because it is too hard for then to do, it is just plain cool to ignore them. You will just end up with more unregistered and unlicensed drivers on the road instead.