How long to get penalty points notice in post?

Compudaro

Twice over the weekend I had the misfortune of passing 2 separate mobile speed checks.both involved a garda pointing the hairdryer!anyway,i may have been a touch over the limit on each.at a guess 90 in an 80 and 115 in a 100.if so,i have to accept my mistake and face the music.just wondering when to expect a notice in the post?average time?

Random

Mine took about 6 weeks from alleged offence to come out. Sent it away about a week later with payment. About 2 weeks later I got a letter out saying they'd be added to my license in 6 weeks more or something.

(times are approx, not exact .. but thereabouts ...)

445279.ie

If you weren't actually stopped and details taken you won't get a notice in the post

Redsoxfan

If the Gardai were there in person, don't they have to take your details then and there for a ticket to be issued?

Compudaro

if it's a manned handheld hairdryer,do they have to stop you?

Atomic Pineapple

Compudaro wrote: »

if it's a manned handheld hairdryer,do they have to stop you?

yeh if its a handheld device they need to stop you, a tri pod or a gatso camera and it comes in the post without them needing to stop you

took my points nearly 5 months to come

JHMEG

5 months for me too, the 1st time. 2nd time was about a month.

The hair-dryer is a speed gun, and doesn't take a photo or any other sort of permanent record, so you won't be getting points. It's doubtful you'd get into any trouble for being a tad over the limit anyway.

polyfusion

draffodx wrote: »

took my points nearly 5 months to come

Thats insane! Was that recently, or in the early days of giving points? I take it then that points expire 3 years after you pay, not after the offence? And was that after been stopped by a Garda, or from a fixed or mobile gatso?

Stephen

I got caught back in April. The fixed penalty notice came in the post about a week later. I paid the fine straight away and the points notice came another week after that.

Sean Quagmire

draffodx wrote: »

yeh if its a handheld device they need to stop you, a tri pod or a gatso camera and it comes in the post without them needing to stop you

took my points nearly 5 months to come

I drove past two checkpoints in different parts of the country in one weekend about 4 weeks back. I might have been a little over in both cases and I think the garda where using handheld devices.

nothing in the post, no fines or anything..should i be clear?

Seth Brundle

polyfusion wrote: »

Thats insane! Was that recently, or in the early days of giving points? I take it then that points expire 3 years after you pay, not after the offence? And was that after been stopped by a Garda, or from a fixed or mobile gatso?

They can't impose the points until the driver accepts responsibility so it would be shortly after you send off the admission & fine.

Atomic Pineapple

polyfusion wrote: »

Thats insane! Was that recently, or in the early days of giving points? I take it then that points expire 3 years after you pay, not after the offence? And was that after been stopped by a Garda, or from a fixed or mobile gatso?

It was about 3 years ago now that I got caught, got caught in June but didn't get my points until October. So my points apply from October 2006 to October 2009.

I was stopped by a Garda with a hairdryer.

Sean Quagmire wrote: »

I drove past two checkpoints in different parts of the country in one weekend about 4 weeks back. I might have been a little over in both cases and I think the garda where using handheld devices.

nothing in the post, no fines or anything..should i be clear?

I'd imagine you'd be fine