Digital billboards are awful. Drivers are already distracted enough with their phones, infotainment in their cars and screaming kids.
Streetlights are required by councils to limit light projection upward to avoid light pollution - these things glow full noise outward at night.
Anyone else hate them as much as me?
As per title. 61 km/h in a 50 km/h zone. NZTA issued an infringement. In this case it was from a mobile speed camera - I've obtained the photo. The towing vehicle had its registration plate obscured by my trailer. The only readable registration plate is that of the trailer.
A trailer is a "motor vehicle" as defined in the Land Transport Act 1998.
The Land Transport (Road User) Rule 2004 states:
"A driver must not drive a vehicle at a speed exceeding the applicable speed limit."
The Land Transport (Offences and Penalties) Regulations 1999 list the corresponding infringement offence as:
"Driver exceeds applicable permanent, etc, speed limit."
The Land Transport Act 1998, section 139AAA, requires the automated infringement system to verify:
"the registration plate of the vehicle involved in the infringement offence."
I can't find any legislation that expressly states that, where a "combination" (driven vehicle + towed) is involved, the registration plate of a trailer is deemed to be the registration plate of the "vehicle involved in the infringement offence", or that identifying the trailer registration alone is sufficient where the towing vehicle's registration plate cannot be read.
Am I missing something? Is there any legislation, case law, or published NZTA guidance that specifically authorises issuing a speed camera infringement on the basis of the trailer registration alone?
I'm not disputing the speeding. I'm trying to understand the legal basis for identifying the offending vehicle when only the trailer's registration plate is visible.