breaking red light

martin12

cops stopped me the other night, one of them says i went thru a red light. he said i'd get a 50 euro fine in the post and no penalty points. Any one shed any light on this...

spartacus93

It's two points for breaking a red light

mikemac

http://www.penaltypoints.ie/driving_offences.php

This show 2 penalty points and a fine for what happened

martin12

Thanks for reply
2 penalty points and a fine ?

cyclopath2001

spartacus93 wrote: »

It's two points for breaking a red light

Nope, it's two penalty points for "Failure to obey traffic lights". You're obliged to stop on amber unless it's unsafe to do so.

Other odd thing about what the OP says, is that the fine is 80 euro, not 50.

spartacus93

cyclopath2001 wrote: »

Nope, it's two penalty points for "Failure to obey traffic lights". You're obliged to stop on amber unless it's unsafe to do so.

Other odd thing about what the OP says, is that the fine is 80 euro, not 50.

it's two points for breaking a red light, why the nope?

Del2005

cyclopath2001 wrote: »

Other odd thing about what the OP says, is that the fine is 80 euro, not 50.

The OP said the Guard said it was €50 and no points, the Garda mustn't have heard about them new penalty points:D

Cool Mo D

spartacus93 wrote: »

it's two points for breaking a red light, why the nope?

Because it's not just for breaking a red. You can get it for crossing a yellow light if you had time to stop.

spartacus93

Sounds like the guard just made a mistake. I'm sure he'll still follow up on it tho, and you'll get the two points and the fine (i think it's €80 like the others said, but not 100%)