How long between getting stopped for speeding and getting the letter in the post?

rickyjb

What's the longest gap anyone's ever had between getting pulled over and actually receiving the fine in the post (the very first letter)?

It's been a full month now and I'm starting to dare to hope that it's somehow been forgotten about, deep down though I'd be very surprised.

So how long??

(I know by typing this that it's gona be waiting for me when I get home:rolleyes::()

Atomic Pineapple

I got done in 2003 and back then they took 5 months to get to me.

Henry Ford III

Might be days, weeks or months. Up to 6 months I think.

dr.fuzzenstein

Friend of mine got the letter yesterday, the offense took place on the first of March.

Atomic Pineapple

OSI wrote: »

This raises an interesting question actually.

If it takes up to 6 months for the letter to arrive with your fine etc, what happens if in the 6 months between you being stopped and giving the Gardai your address and them sending the letter, you happen to move?

Your obliged to update your address when you move, so it will be sen to your new address.

rickyjb

Ah balls, a month is nothing so.

They should have a reasonable minimum period within which to send you notice of the offence (a month sounds fair for example) and after that it's too late. All this messing does is push out the date when the points will eventually be removed from your licence.

canonball5

Are they still sending out the fines in the ordinary post?A mate who is a garda said they need to send them via register post so you sign for it,but they cut corners and people mostly pay.If it goes to court and you"never received" a letter,they will throw it out!!I believe it happens all the time!

rickyjb

No my other *ahem* indiscretions arrived by regular post too. Do people actually get away by saying they never got the letter? How did they know when to go to court then?!:pac:

kev1.3s

This happened to me a couple of years I was due in court for an unpaid speeding fine I did turn up on the day and acquired a solicitor to hear my case when he checked his list my name was was not on it but he said if he hears it called out he would hear the case and call me later, when he called me he said that the case was never heard and that was that as far as I was concerned until several months later when I got a call from my mother saying I'd got my name in the paper! Seems that they called the case later without informing and in my absence gave me the maximum fine and 4 penalty points.

brian2me

What happens when your caught by the new speeding vans and your unaware that you have been caught. I don't think its fair to be waiting for over a month in order to be notified of your offence. In the interim you could be accumulating more points and your not getting the POINT which this is all about. I think you should get notification by text / email. What do the people who operate these vans do all day?

canonball5

I just asked my mate again to make sure i was getting it right.He confirmed what i said earlier.If your fine is "lost" in the post you will receive a letter for court.Turn up in court and claim you never received the fine so were unable to pay it.All fines should be sent as registered post and signed to cofirm you received the letter.The judge will ask how the garda sent the letter and how was it lost.They can not prosecute for the same offence twice,hence it is struck out.

It common knowledge for solicitors to get guys off who are on 10 or so points using this method!

Wibbler

Does anyone know how long it takes for a fixed penalty notice to be issued when speeding is detected by Gardai operated GATSO van?

I think I may have been flashed by one back in the last week of January. I've had nothing by post. I'd be bloody annoyed if the next I hear of it is a summons a number of months from now.

Are fixed penalty notices sent by regular post?