Penalty Points

arseagon

Ok for all you drivers out there? Who has the most penalty points on their licence and does anyone have any funny stories about how they got them?

I have 2 but no funny story to go with it... I just got caught speeding. :rolleyes:

And wouldn't it be nice if you had one of these ":mad: " for every point you have stuck to your licence? Just as a reminder.

biko

Have two for doing 140 on a 100 road.
80 euro fine.

kodute

Am getting 2 for doing 61kph on a 50kph road...speeding is speeding though.:o

I was told that they expire after 2 years? is this true? These are on my provisional licence will they transfer to my full licence when i get it?

arseagon

kodute wrote:

Am getting 2 for doing 61kph on a 50kph road...speeding is speeding though.:o

I was told that they expire after 2 years? is this true? These are on my provisional licence will they transfer to my full licence when i get it?

I think I was told 3 years. And i've no idea about what happens when you get your full licence.

robinph

I got 12 all in one go, do I win?

Clean license though once I got it back 18 months later and I've been a relatively good boy since.

arseagon

How did you get 12 all in one go? you must have been Speeding, No Seatbelt, On Phone, picking your nose... etc. all at the same time??

cournioni

Got two for speeding in a 50km/h zone aswell, think I was doing 72 km/h. Was well pissed off as it was a bank holiday monday and raining. That is the time when you least expect them out doing speed checks!

aidan_walsh

robinph wrote:

I got 12 all in one go, do I win?

Clean license though once I got it back 18 months later and I've been a relatively good boy since.

You should be proud. No, really.

Kimbot

Well if you got 12 all at one go how are you still on the roads???

I have 4 for speeding!!

If you get 6 on a provisional you are off the road and 12 on a full!!
Also points will be removed off your lisence after 3 years and they will tranfer to your full lisence!!

robinph

markdunne wrote:

How did you get 12 all in one go? you must have been Speeding, No Seatbelt, On Phone, picking your nose... etc. all at the same time??

Crashed into an off duty copper whilst pissed.

The one and only time that I ever happened to have keys to a vehicle on me at the same time as drinking and then thought it was a good idea to drive back home from my mates that I was supposed to be staying at that night.

jonny24ie wrote:

Well if you got 12 all at one go how are you still on the roads???

Was on a UK license many years ago.

cournioni

robinph wrote:

Crashed into an off duty copper whilst pissed.

The one and only time that I ever happened to have keys to a vehicle on me at the same time as drinking and then thought it was a good idea to drive back home from my mates that I was supposed to be staying at that night.


Was on a UK license many years ago.

I trust you've learnt your lesson...

connundrum

Got 2 for speeding on the way out of Thurles one morning, doing 87mph in the 30 zone (no excuse ) but the guard who caught me said that he was trying to get me to stop for 2 miles. I didn't cop him at all as I had the 2000watt sound system up to full.. God did I do some grovelling then!

Funny thing was though I didn't pay the fine in time, and belted it down to Thurles station 3 weeks after the payment date had expired. Who did I see on the desk only Mr 2 mile chase. I just paid the extra fine without a whimper

Another occasion saw me being threatened with 8 points in the one go for No seatbelt, Driving with a Prov on the Motorway, Driving without a Licenced passenger, Dangerous Driving and Speeding. But he let me off all of them.. after I sh1t me pants

xzanti

I have two from last summer... But I'm sort of waiting for another 2 to come through the door because I'm 90% sure I was caught speeding about a month back.. Was on an 80K stretch of road, was doing about 90 when I spotted yer man with the hair drying so I slowed down but think I was still at about 84 as I passed him.... I know its been a month but last time it took longer than that to arrive

kodute

this is a great thread! makes me feel like a great driver!

Does anyone have any experience with avoiding the points? For example my speeding (60 in a 50 zone) my speedometer is broken (displaying 10mph slower) and the garage are being b******s about fixing it. I was going to try using that excuse to avoid the points. :cool:

Mossy Monk

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arseagon

kodute wrote:

this is a great thread! makes me feel like a great driver!

Does anyone have any experience with avoiding the points? For example my speeding (60 in a 50 zone) my speedometer is broken (displaying 10mph slower) and the garage are being b******s about fixing it. I was going to try using that excuse to avoid the points. :cool:

In my experience you'll gett away with a few kph over the limit. I have a GPS system in my car that tells me my speed and when the car says i'm doing 105kph, the GPS says i'm only doing 95!! So which is right? the Car or the GPS?

WhiteWashMan

motor forum tbh

The tax man

I've 2 points(i think) for 78 in a 60.
Did anyone here get any sort of notification after paying the fine that the points are now officially on your licence?
I could be wrong but i thought I read somewhere that you'll be sent such a notice.
If I am wrong then I DO have 2 points.:(

arseagon

I didn't get any notice saying that I now had points, but then again I got mine going through Kilmacanogue which was on the news a couple of months ago saying that it wasn't a legal speed limit and anyone who was given points would automatically have them taken off. I didn't get notified if this happened either and do you think I can find anyone to speak to about it??? Not a chance, every department and Garda fobbed me off onto another person.

WizZard

Yeah, the points start from the week after you receive the notice which is a tad unfair considering how long it takes them to send the damn things out

kano476

ive been driving for only a few weeks and i got caught doing 94km/h in a 60km/h zone. it was the outer ring road in waterford which is a dual carriageway and is ridiculously slow. basterds caught me at the top of the hill just as i was pulling back into the laft hand lane finishing overtaking some knobend doing 50km/h. I heard that if you get 6 points on a provisional lisence youre off the road is this true?

anyway its made me paranoid on the road now me slow the feck down!

MrPudding

kano476 wrote:

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anyway its made me paranoid on the road now me slow the feck down!

Job done then.

MrP

arseagon

Is there anywhere people can actually ring or a website they can go to to find out how many points they have/when they will expire etc?

stratos

I got my notification of points in the post, filed it. Then a police man rang me to ask me where I lived. Stupid me told him. Oh great he said I will be around with a summons. The court date was 3 days away. I told the police man I never got the first post. He said we there have been problems with the post tell the judge. I was gonna use this stratergy but as it turned out the police didn't show up in court so nil point.

Eoin

markdunne wrote:

In my experience you'll gett away with a few kph over the limit. I have a GPS system in my car that tells me my speed and when the car says i'm doing 105kph, the GPS says i'm only doing 95!! So which is right? the Car or the GPS?

On a straight & flat road, I'd trust the GPS more.

You may get a but of leeway from a manned checkpoint, but if they have the gatso pointed at you, then it probably just takes a picture of anyone over the limit, even if it's 1kmh over. Unless the Gardai calibrate it to 55kmh instead of 50kmh I suppose...

connundrum wrote:

Got 2 for speeding on the way out of Thurles one morning, doing 87mph in the 30 zone (no excuse )

Seriously? you were doing nearly 90 in a 30 zone? I'd be hesitant doing 90mph/144kmh on the M50 let alone in a residential area.

omega man

xzanti wrote:

I have two from last summer... But I'm sort of waiting for another 2 to come through the door because I'm 90% sure I was caught speeding about a month back.. Was on an 80K stretch of road, was doing about 90 when I spotted yer man with the hair drying so I slowed down but think I was still at about 84 as I passed him.... I know its been a month but last time it took longer than that to arrive

As far as i know he would have had to stop you if it was the hand held job
camera. Its fixed cameras and gatso's that do you in the post! I got 2 points on the M1 coming into the airport, 81km in a 60km zone, its on a bend
and the gatso was was waiting for me! smile.....

Seth Brundle

omega man wrote:

As far as i know he would have had to stop you if it was the hand held job
camera. Its fixed cameras and gatso's that do you in the post! I got 2 points on the M1 coming into the airport, 81km in a 60km zone, its on a bend
and the gatso was was waiting for me! smile.....

Apparently two districts (Louth and Laois) have hand held cameras

Töpher

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Atomic Pineapple

2 just got the notification of them today, they'll be on my licence a whole 162 days after i committed the offence, bit of a joke thats nearly half a year i could have gone on them!

seamus

omega man wrote:

As far as i know he would have had to stop you if it was the hand held job camera.

Yeah, they have to pull you over to catch you with the hairdryers. For this reason, you're much more likely to receive points if caught on camera.

magnumlady

seamus wrote:

Yeah, they have to pull you over to catch you with the hairdryers. For this reason, you're much more likely to receive points if caught on camera.

Is that right? I'm gutted because I was doing 55 kmph today in a 50 kmph zone, just spotted yer man with his hairdryer.
He was sat in the 80kmph part of the road.
What do you think are the chances of me getting points?

Atomic Pineapple

very slim i would say

magnumlady

Thanks draffodx. I'll be watching my speed from now on.

Mossy Monk

kano476 wrote:

ive been driving for only a few weeks and i got caught doing 94km/h in a 60km/h zone. it was the outer ring road in waterford which is a dual carriageway and is ridiculously slow

madness is all you can say about the speed limit on that road. 60km for a road with 2 lanes going both ways

Our man in Havana

Mossy Monk wrote:

madness is all you can say about the speed limit on that road. 60km for a road with 2 lanes going both ways

All the side roads off of it have an 80km/h limit. :eek:

Atomic Pineapple

Bond-007 wrote:

All the side roads off of it have an 80km/h limit. :eek:

same as the dual carriageway i got done on, 60kmh speed limit, like shooting fish in a barrel and not doing anything to actually improve road safety

jhegarty

Bond-007 wrote:

All the side roads off of it have an 80km/h limit. :eek:

they interviewed some idiot from the council about it on the radio when it opened... seems the road is designed for 70kph , but thats not a speed limit...

then he was asked did the road from superquinn out to the ring road get less safe (it changed from 100kph to 60kph)... he had no answer...

and how about the bog roads connected to with the 80kph limit... no answer there either....

Atomic Pineapple

the new speed limits are a joke, theres windy bendy roads with a 100kph limit and then nice straight roads with 80kph.......talk about alienating the motorist!

mr_angry

Heh. I got 4 altogther - 2 sets of 2 for doing 80 on the Naas Road in a 60 zone. The really annoying thing was that they raised the speed limit to 80 a month later. I can't complain though... I've really changed my driving style since, because I think it was obvious that I needed to. Having said that, the Garda approach to cash-cow roads, the the general decisions on speed limits are hard to fathom. The section of the Naas Road I was caught on has 4 lanes (if you count the bus lane), and yet it only had a 60kph limit? And the best bit was that it took the Gardai so long to send out the notice of the first offence, I was caught again in the meantime.

Like I say though, it was my own fault for not being observant enough and looking at the roadsigns. You can't blame the Gardai for that. I renewed my insurance policy last week, and it didn't make any difference to the premium, so as long as I don't go nuts and get myself banned, it would seem that everything is hunky dory.

digweed

i did hear of someone who lost their licence in a week. seemingly they built up the 12 points in 6 days. part of it was that they got caught speeding 4 times on the same atretch of road and had lost their licence before the first notification had arrived. imagine getting 6 notices in the post one after the other!!! i think if that happened to me i'd think that it's mates of mine trying to wind me up.

D.

btw i'm like the runner up in the eurovision with nul point.

Our man in Havana

In fairness that guy should have legged it up north and got himself a UK licence.

arseagon

Can you get a UK licence if you live in the south? That'd be dead handy.

Our man in Havana

markdunne wrote:

Can you get a UK licence if you live in the south? That'd be dead handy.

No. But there are ways to do it. I shall say nomore as a ban may ensue.

oleras

connundrum wrote:

Another occasion saw me being threatened with 8 points in the one go for No seatbelt, Driving with a Prov on the Motorway, Driving without a Licenced passenger, Dangerous Driving and Speeding. But he let me off all of them.. after I sh1t me pants

AFAIK you get the highest single offence in points, eg.speeding, no seat belt through a red light would incur 2 points..... sounds like that guard didnt know what he was on about.....:rolleyes:

Stark

Also, they haven't yet introduced penalty points for driving unaccompanied or driving on the motorway, even though the Road Traffic Act allows for them.