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Latest speeding turkey shoot planned

  • 22-04-2010 4:25pm
    #1
    McSpud
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    Irish Times
    A small proportion of drivers who continue to offend against road safety rules are to be targeted in the latest pan-European crackdown on speeding that gets under way on Monday next.

    Members of the Garda National Traffic Bureau are to take part in a week long focus on detecting speeding drivers, ahead of an even more stringent crackdown for the May bank holiday weekend.

    Announcing the moves today, Assistant Commissioner Kevin Ludlow said each Garda division would take part and success - in comparison to European colleagues - would be measured in the numbers of "fixed notice" penalties imposed on errant drivers.

    Most EU countries as well as Norway, Switzerland and Serbia are to take part in the crackdown, the first pan-European exercise to focus on speed this year.

    The week will culminate in a bank holiday weekend crackdown on drink and drug driving, the non-use of seatbelts and breaches of road transport legislation.

    How do they target persistent offenders?

    Isn't it time we got away from the notion that the number of tickets given out determined success as it only encourages motorway turkey shoots. Surely a better way of judging success is the number of vehicles examined or tested.


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
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    I do hope my change of ownership form comes through so I can get road tax before the bank holiday weekend, some of the Gardai can be quite the pain in the arse about such things on BH weekends.


  • #3
    wyrn
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    I'm guessing it'll be the motorways that will be mainly focussed on. I bet the M4/N4 (the 3 lane part of 80 km/h) will be also looked at.

    That said I hope they catch everyone who thinks its fine to do 120 km/h+ (especially the really excessive speeders) on the motorways. It's getting tiresome being one of the few keeping the limit (and keeping in the left lane before anyone starts).

    I'd prefer to see speeders on backroads being targeted. Every town outside of Dublin has it's black spot areas. These are the areas where most of the serious accidents occur.

    To be fair I don't see this as a bad thing - I mean we should all be keeping to the limit (even if it is ridiculous on some roads), having our seatbelts on, not using mobiles etc...


  • #4
    pa990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,883 ✭✭✭pa990


    this was mentioned on the homepage of garda.ie site a week or two ago.

    cant find it now :(


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