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Drink Driving and urine samples

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  • #102
    ThreeLineWhip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭ThreeLineWhip


    You should have the FPN within 2 to 4 weeks at most.

    Then a 56 day clock starts in which you can decide to accept and pay or ignore and it goes to court.

    Once you pay you will get a letter from the RSA stating your ban period which is normally around 28 days after you pay the FPN.

    When you get the FPN weight up your options carefully. If you play your cards right as to when you pay the FPN you can easily stay on the road till May.


  • #103
    colbully
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭colbully


    So if i accept the fpn an decide to pay it on day 50 of the 56day limit ..i then get a further 28 days from the date i paid? So i can drive all this time ?


  • #104
    ThreeLineWhip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭ThreeLineWhip


    colbully wrote: »
    So if i accept the fpn an decide to pay it on day 50 of the 56day limit ..i then get a further 28 days from the date i paid? So i can drive all this time ?
    Yes!


  • #105
    colbully
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭colbully


    Thank u threelinewhip


  • #106
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    colbully wrote: »
    I could do that but if that failed..it could go pear shaped for me ..i was pulled at 12.30am an according to the report the sample was taken at 3.17am....i was told i could take my sample of urine as a souvenier of the occasion...myself ,the doctor an the guard present at the time of giving the sample, we all had a laugh at this as i said i didnt want to remember this occasion..little did i know i could hav taken that sample an have it tested myself as i wasnt told that on tjhe night by the doc or gard

    What did you think it was being offered to you for?


  • #107
    colbully
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭colbully


    well as i wasnt told wha i was being offered it for,,i didnt have a clue...


  • #108
    ThreeLineWhip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭ThreeLineWhip


    colbully wrote: »
    well as i wasnt told wha i was being offered it for,,i didnt have a clue...
    More ammo for the solicitor.


  • #109
    colbully
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭colbully


    im not defending myself here or anything,,as i know my wrong doing and my punishment is exactly what i needed to make sure mistakes like this wont ever happen again.. but has independant testing of a urine sample ever come back UNDER the limits ???


  • #110
    ResearchWill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭ResearchWill


    colbully wrote: »
    im not defending myself here or anything,,as i know my wrong doing and my punishment is exactly what i needed to make sure mistakes like this wont ever happen again.. but has independant testing of a urine sample ever come back UNDER the limits ???

    Every one I have seen which is few, was over the reading given by the MB.


  • #111
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    ThreeLineWhip wrote: »
    More ammo for the solicitor.

    It'd be a fierce desperate solicitor who'd try that. The Garda is legally obliged to offer a sample to the driver. He is not obliged to advise him on a defence.


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  • #112
    colbully
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭colbully


    i dont think i will be fighting this one lads..im holding my hands up an accepting my stupidty an my mistakes...6 months off the road isnt the end of the world an i will work around it in whatever way i can


  • #113
    ThreeLineWhip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭ThreeLineWhip


    Lets us know when they send you the notice. We can then work out when the ban will run from there.


  • #114
    colbully
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭colbully


    ThreeLineWhip wrote: »
    Lets us know when they send you the notice. We can then work out when the ban will run from there.


    i will indeed threelinewhip..hopefully what u said earlier.about the 56.day period an then the 28 day period will allow me to stay driving for anothrr month or so...ive personally never heard of the 56period decision period on an FPN...altough this may be different for a dd case


  • #115
    Truman Burbank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 543 ✭✭✭Truman Burbank


    seamus wrote: »
    Holy ****, my apologies!

    I was looking at the wrong figures. You're right.

    That was worth reading 84 posts :D


  • #116
    IGALLA11
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭IGALLA11


    Hi this is my first post too. What if you had 4 big glasses of wine between 8.30 - 12.00, had several trips to the loo then had to give a sample at 3.17am what are the chances of a good outcome here


  • #117
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    IGALLA11 wrote: »
    Hi this is my first post too. What if you had 4 big glasses of wine between 8.30 - 12.00, had several trips to the loo then had to give a sample at 3.17am what are the chances of a good outcome here

    Zero large glass of wine is close to three units four is twelve you metabolise one an hour


  • #118
    whomitconcerns
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,379 ✭✭✭whomitconcerns


    Well it happened to him 4 years ago.... He's probably forgotten now


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