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Points on driving license from cycling?

  • 23-04-2010 6:57pm
    #1
    DarkStranger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭


    Can you get points on your drivers license if you go through a red light on a push bike?


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  • #2
    sy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,653 ✭✭✭sy


    Not unless you have a car rack on your bike!
    Answer No


  • #3
    DarkStranger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭DarkStranger


    Thought so, but wasn't sure. Thanks :)


  • #4
    keenan110
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭keenan110


    Not in Ireland.
    But as far as i know in Germany you loose your driving licence if your caught to be cycling under the influence...


  • #5
    Civilian_Target
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,618 ✭✭✭Civilian_Target


    France too... best job is to show them your irish passport and refuse to speak french... and it suddeny always seems like too much effort :)


  • #6
    sy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,653 ✭✭✭sy


    Civilian_Target wrote: »
    France too... best job is to show them your irish passport and refuse to speak french... and it suddeny always seems like too much effort :)
    Spend my Summers there and never knew that! Thanks for that info Civilian-Target. Are you speaking from experience? :)


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  • #7
    Civilian_Target
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,618 ✭✭✭Civilian_Target


    sy wrote: »
    Spend my Summers there and never knew that! Thanks for that info Civilian-Target. Are you speaking from experience? :)

    Yes.. and I never show them my French driving license :D


  • #8
    jaqian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭jaqian


    sy wrote: »
    Not unless you have a car rack on your bike!
    Answer No

    Good to know, often wondered about that.


  • #9
    blorg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    keenan110 wrote: »
    But as far as i know in Germany you loose your driving licence if your caught to be cycling under the influence...
    Pedantically this is not troo.


  • #10
    budfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭budfox


    Interesting one as you can be fined under the RTA for cycling under the influence...doesn't get you points though...


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