M1 speed camera

superman24

ok guys,its like this, i got caught by the gatso van lst sept goin to n comin frm work. I was doing 100kph in that 80 zone between the port tunnel exit and the airport turnoff. i wasnt aware of this until few days ago cos the fines were sent to an old address of mine an the ex didnt bother her ass sending my mail on to me hence i never got the chance to pay the fine in time, but she opened the court one, cellotaped it n forwarded it on to me which i only recieved few days ago. i have the court appearance tomorrow. do you tink the judge would believe that story ? or wats the worst case n best case scenario on this?? i`m fukin sick over it! cant believe she didnt bother sending them on!
also, i remember reading somethin in the paper about this stretch sometime ago. somethin sayin on the lines of anyone caught speeding on it wud hav there fines cancelled cos of the roads authority or something not publishing new speeds officially or somethin. anyone know anythin or remember this?
cheers

trad

Try posting in english and you might get a reply.

Theta

Arghhh my eyes.

But yes alot of the cases were thrown out for the area of the M1 around the airport. I think some people were getting cautions instead or just fines no points. I'm not sure though.

rccaulfield

Some real backward people on here that go on about punctuation-please!!!!!
Anyway my advice wud be tell the judge what happened and hope for the standard 2 points! Be polite and you never know!

bcmf

I think what happened was that the speed limit was changed and as far as I remember Fingal CC never bothered to do the paperwork on it so the speed limit was not legally lowered and a load of speeding tickets were struck off . But that was a good while back so I would be surprised if it hasnt been sorted. 2 points and a fine.Tell the judge exactly what happened. And tell the judge you are very very sorry if you had of known you would have never let it get this far.

superman24

i just googled away there and found the article in question

Gardaí forced to refund fines
Patrick Logue

Gardaí have been forced to refund motorists caught speeding on one of the State's busiest roads and remove penalty points from their licences because an incorrect limit was being enforced, The Irish Times has learned.
The error came to light after a motorist, who was detected driving above the 80km/h limit on a stretch of the M1 in 2006, queried it with the garda who restored his clean driving record last April.
According to gardaí who wrote to the motorist, an "administrative error" meant that correct bylaws to allow the Traffic Corps to enforce the 80km/h limit on the section of motorway near Dublin city centre were not put in place by the local authority.
The 80km/h stretch of the road between the Port Tunnel and the airport turn-off is notoriously busy, with traffic merging from the north, the M50, the airport, the city centre and the Port Tunnel.
The speed limit drops from 120km/h to 80km/h in the area.
It is regularly patrolled by gardaí in unmarked vehicles, and gardaí also use Gatso speed cameras parked underneath bridges, at the side of the road, to catch speeding motorists.
However, in a letter to the motorist, who was caught speeding by a Gatso camera near Santry in August 2006, Chief Superintendent John Farrelly thanks him for contacting them, and apologises for the "inconvenience caused" by the error.
"Due to an administrative error, whereby the relevant bylaws were not in force, a decision was made to refund all paid notices and have penalty points expunged from all affected driving licence files," the letter, dated March 2007, explains.
In a second letter in April 2007, from the Road Safety Authority (RSA), the same motorist is told that the penalty points "endorsed in error on your driving licence record in respect of an alleged offence have been removed, following instruction from An Garda Síochána."
It is not the first time a mix-up between gardaí and local authorities has allowed motorists who were caught speeding to escape fines and penalty points, but it is perhaps the busiest road to be affected by such an error.
In October 2006, hundreds of motorists in Co Louth learned they were to be refunded fines and have points expunged in similar circumstances. A speed limit on a stretch of the R132 road near Drogheda was increased from 80km/h to 100km/h in April 2006.
The correct bylaws were put in place by the local authority, but gardaí continued to enforce the old limit because the old signs were left in place.


now is there any way that i could find out if this has been rectified then or what??