ToomanyVolvos;147930 wroteIt's illegal to go through a red light at 2am when there's nobody for miles.... But it's perfectly safe to do so.
That's what the guy running the red light on Concord Rd, Nth Strathfield thought, when he T-boned a mate of mine in a Land Cruiser, just after he'd just filled up the long range fuel tank in the thing.
The POS Toyota fell on its side, ruptured the fuel tanks, and boom. He was burned alive. Fire crews / ambos couldn't get near the inferno to pull him out of the wreck.
The crash made the TV morning news, and was the big topic of morning discussion at a course I was doing that day. Didn't find out till I got home that afternoon that it was my friend who had died in that fire.
Which is why I get very shirty about running red light runners, and why (in NSW) it's only a 3-point offense, when doing 135 on a flat, straight, clear country road in good weather gets you double the points and a 3-month holiday. Especially how the public buys into the lie that 'speed kills' and allow the scam to continue, while truly dangerous shite with a hugely high probability of killing somebody only gets you a slap on the wrist.
Back to point - getting engineering approval isn't something anybody ought to be afraid of. They will pass stuff which has been done properly. If it's Parramatta Road-used-car-dealer repair level which makes you laugh aloud at the audacity of their dodginess, they won't.
And after seeing a modified Datsun 200B have its front suspension collapse in the main drag of Nth Adelaide, and causing a major traffic jam, I'm all for annual rego inspections, but only NSW has them. Cheapskate idiots, children, and fools who think of their cars as being like digital watches and toasters will bodgy them up as cheaply as they can and only if they think they can get away with it, e.g. using garden hose on the high pressure side of a K-Jet system. Which ruins it for those of us who like to modify cars and do things properly.