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Mike Munro on driving ban

Sunday Night host convicted of speeding in a 40kmh variable zone in Sydney's Lane Cove Tunnel.

Mike Munro has been convicted of speeding and banned from driving for three months after an incident in Sydney’s Lane Cove Tunnel last November.

The Sunday Night host pleaded guilty in Burwood Local Court this morning to driving at 81km/h through the tunnel on November 1st.

Munro, 58, said he didn’t realise there was a variable speed limit in place of 40km/h and that his his car was set to cruise control. He referred to the incident a “momentary lapse.”

But a lawyer for the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) referred to six signs advising of the reduced limit, adding, “If there was a momentary lapse of attention, it has happened on six occasions.”

Munro was also fined $300 and ordered to pay costs of $214.

Source: smh.com.au, news.com.au

12 Responses

  1. Dick, I’m very curious to know if you’re saying that because I did 40km/h on a freeway or because I refuse to do it again (if everyone else is at 110km/h). Not that I disagree with compulsory re-licensing anyway!

  2. CK-So, don’t obey a 40 sign because the trucks behind may not, and may hit you? Such a momentus story that TEN had to run a lengthy piece two mins. into their 5pm bulletin, ahead of the “important” news of the day. Also loved their beat up of Mrs Munro holding a mobile phone in her hand while driving. She was clearly not talking on it but TEN’s “reporter” tried to beat it up into something. Thank God for ABC24.

  3. Kenny, I know what I”m talking about when I say there *is* such a thing as safe speeding. I once did 40km/h because they forgot to put the “110” sign back after a work zone, and eventually one of the semi-trailers going past me hit my car and wrote it off. The cops said I was obeying the limit but I’ll never take my life in my hands that way again.

  4. @ryaneco To be fair, there are also variable speed limits on the M2, M4, M5 and M7, so a variable speed limit is hardly unique to one or two roads in Sydney. If Munro had have been going 4kmh more, the penalty would have been a lot worse. He can now move on, and hopefully he will be somewhat more compassionate for others who have “momentary lapse”.

  5. To be fair the Lane Cove tunnel is a bitch and sometimes you just simply don’t realise the variable speed limit is enforced. There is another variable speed limit on General Holmes Drive coming past the Airport which I never realise the variable speed limit is on until I’m right next to the sign and speed camera; thankfully I’ve never been caught there; but I can see how it is easily missed.

    Plus at 81km/h he was doing the speed limit of the tunnel in normal conditions. But it is what it is so there’s nothing anyone can do about it; at least he didn’t make a fool of himself and fight to the death with the RTA :p

  6. CK-“a pensioner or something”. Better to be a “pensioner or something” obeying the road rules than a twenty-something hoon out to take a life of some innocent motorist, pedestrian or roadworker. Obey the road signs and you may live long enough to become a pensioner or something.

  7. To be fair to Munro (and trust me, I think pretty lowly of him), have you ever tried driving 40km/h through a long motorway tunnel? It is S-L-O-W, especially if there’s no actual obstruction or construction equipment around. If you do it when you’re asked to, you’ll find everyone speeding past you at 60km/h, and made to feel like a complete tool, while everyone checks to see if you’re a pensioner or something.

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