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Me and my family were having a discussion about this at a family dinner a few weeks ago.
And i just wanna know what the laws are.
If you ride a bike home drunk on the
-bike path
-footpath
-side of the road.
Can you get arrested.
Could it get your driving licence taken off you.
My mom was trying to tell me if you get caught you drivers licence can get taken away but i think its bullshit so im hoping someone can tell us the laws on it :P
The last I knew, you are still able to be booked and arrested, as bikes are classed as a form of vehicle transport. If they didnt book you for drink-riding :) the could do you for Drunk and disorderly.
Not sure about the whole licence thing though.
I was caught years ago, pissed as a parrot riding and Mr plod pulled me over and give me the "what for".
Yes you can get done for it, most likely to get Drunk and Disorderly, esspecially if you are singing at the time, ask one of my friends about that :)
You wouldn't get done for DUI unless you did something really stupid, thinking of of thing that Darwin doesn't have steep hill and heavy traffic....
Lataf :)
Quote from Jeat:
Yes you can get done for it, most likely to get Drunk and Disorderly, esspecially if you are singing at the time, ask one of my friends about that :)
Yeah well my mom wasnt happy that on new years i rode home on the bike and is saying you can get done for this and that.
Im aware that if i was obstrucing cars or people or being a tool i could get introuble yes thats common sence. Yeha i was singing too :P
But what im really interested in knowing is if im just riding home drunk and im being sensiable not doing anything that a sober person woudnt be doing is that against the law?
Quote from "Knight Of Nih:
riding home drunk and im being sensiable
you put drunk and sensible in the same sentence...........good luck dude :wink:
But to answer you question, I suppose if you had you lights on your bike (both front and back) and helmet on, with bright clothes and were riding on the right side of the road, then you probably would be fine :)
Quote from hawkeye:
But to answer you question, I suppose if you had you lights on your bike (both front and back) and helmet on, with bright clothes and were riding on the right side of the road, then you probably would be fine :)
but is it legal?
In short ............no
seef you care if its legal or not knight. Drink n ride!
O yeah regardless of the law on this issue its not gonna change the fact that if i have a bike and wanna go home that i will jump on and ride home drunk, i just wanna know what the law is.
jumping on a bike and riding home is better jumping in a car and driving home.
Ok the NT law for pushbikes not motorbikes or scooters.
Be drunk on pushbike no offence under Traffic Act/Regs/Australian Road rules unless you break a specific rule.
IE. Run red light, no helmet, all over the road. You can then be issued with a ticket for that offence.
You cannot loose your drivers licence for riding a pushbike when drunk.
I have been to fatals where the pushbike rider was soo drunk he caused his own death by moving in front of a vehicle.
Get drunk get a lift home from a sober mate, get a taxi, call mum or dad or crash at the mates place.
Do you really want to risk death for a few dollars?????
thanks for that latif
yes id never drive home drunk as im not only endangering myself but other innocent road users id feel horriable if i killed someone else out of stupidity
with riding home i can only really do damage to myself
on the helmet rule what is it now days as when i was younger i rember it changing all the time i think it was if you were under 16 you had to wear it and if you were over you only had to wear it on the road
:? not sure but yeah whats that rule now days :P
think its compulsory for everyone to wear a helmet now knight
that it is
even on the footpath?
its so handy having people who know important stuff such as laws in a forum....!!
U can get done for DUI on a push bike, but I wouldn't reccomend riding whilst drunk for a different reason. 1 head injury, several stitches and an F**KING EXPENSIVE ambulance trip after the staff xmas party taught me my lesson :x
Did you read Lataf's post, wrathlon?
Yeah its 800 bucks for ambo trip to hospital. No matter what the reason. Still no complaining about it
pay your ambulance levy..50 odd bucks a year and its freeee to the bed baby :P
Not sure they have ambulance levy in NT, think its a qld thing...
Quote from Minorci:
Yeah its 800 bucks for ambo trip to hospital. No matter what the reason. Still no complaining about it
dead wrong, actually. my last ambulance trip was $270 (gardens oval to darwin hospital)
but kane wasnt that different cause you were hurt playing a sport?
you can join St Johns and get free ambulance rides. i think it's $80 for a family.
like what, if their tv explodes and injures them
or a fridge lands on someones?
Quote from Knight Of Nih:
but kane wasnt that different cause you were hurt playing a sport?
no idea, i thought it was a bit steep, especially as they also went and picked up some old granny that couldn't stop throwing up. enjoyable ride, not.
Mine cost me $200 from tracy village to the hosipital, (like a whole 2 km, if that) F**kin Ripoff, I think I'd have preferred to just bleed. :shock:
Quote from Jeat:
You wouldn't get done for DUI unless you did something really stupid, thinking of of thing that Darwin doesn't have steep hill and heavy traffic....
Umm you don't get out much do you? There are some awesomely steep hills in Darwin, Vanderlin Service Road is one steep hill, Stasinowsky St in Alawa is steep, Theres one down this park in Wulagi thats steep as...
But traffic doesn't have to be heavy if your drunk, one car is all it takes to kill you
Mine cost me a fair bit lucky tio paid it
My suggestion is to get that ambulance thing my grandparents got it and my grandfather had to get the air ambulance which would of cost $2000 but he got off it lucky bugger
Quote from leonami:
Stasinowsky St in Alawa is steep....
ROFL... Agreed Stasinowksy St is a little steep.. but the hill is only about 5m long and you'd be lucky to see a single car in your travels up (or down) the 'hill'.
but.. my driveway is steeper, and almost longer than that little hill.
do any of you realise you are discussing your driveway's road angle?
Yeah but my point was there are steep hills around the place
yeah, like 5 or so
a veritible fuckload of hills
OK, the hill at palmo up through fairways ridge or whatever the one near the top is called is a veritable cliff face, as for another one in palmo, and the main drag up the top from down the bottome. Theres also quite a few in between town where I live and leanyer where I work, I know cause I ride up and down them about 10 times a week minimum
hills for me required at least 15-20minute to ride up and atleast 3 minutes to ride down to the bottom. Darwin for me is mainly flat ground
darwin has some grassy knolls... but no hills. *watch out for snipers*
or giant wombats
There is a sorta steepish hill outside the casino, and it gets busy right on Govt. payday for some reason. Try walking down the sidewalk whilse pouring rain and drunk as a skunk. Climbing up a vertical ice wall would be easier.
Anyways, any sort of moving transport that you have to control whilst drunk is bad, for the simple fact that you have very little control over it.
Drink heaps, but stay safe.
Zid@ne