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driving with mobile phone

  • 26-06-2011 11:19am
    #1
    fencedin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭


    if you see someone driving using mobile in an estate and you complain to AGS what happens? Do they follow it up on the complaint given it could be the driver's word against yours etc. How do they folow up


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  • #2
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    Short answer is they don't. Unless you get a photo of it.


  • #3
    Al Capwned
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,721 ✭✭✭Al Capwned


    i think it's crazy that you can get penalty points for using a phone while driving, yet you can eat a breakfast roll with two hands while steering with your knee with a bottle of coke between your legs cos you've no can holder, and your passenger operating the gears......
    "Ready - 2nd....... Ready - 3rd....... That's not 3rd, it's 5th, you moron...."

    :D


  • #4
    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,580 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    fencedin wrote: »
    if you see someone driving using mobile in an estate and you complain to AGS what happens? Do they follow it up on the complaint given it could be the driver's word against yours etc. How do they folow up

    I wouldn't say they would even bother following up, how can it be proven? Have you got evidence of this? I have Bluetooth in my car, thank god I don't have you living near me, I don't think the guard who lives 2 doors down from me has a hands free kit unfortunately, he may not be as lucky to escape your Sunday morning ponderings....


  • #5
    fencedin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭fencedin


    Fieldog wrote: »
    I wouldn't say they would even bother following up, how can it be proven? Have you got evidence of this? I have Bluetooth in my car, thank god I don't have you living near me, I don't think the guard who lives 2 doors down from me has a hands free kit unfortunately, he may not be as lucky to escape your Sunday morning ponderings....
    obviously you do not know law or care about idiots driving where kids are and i am not interested in your high horse arguments. is the garda allowed use phone when not on duty


  • #6
    Al Capwned
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,721 ✭✭✭Al Capwned


    fencedin wrote: »
    obviously you do not know law or care about idiots driving where kids are and i am not interested in your high horse arguments. is the garda allowed use phone when not on duty

    wish i had a neighbour like you......


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  • #7
    fencedin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭fencedin


    fieldog on ignore


  • #8
    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,330 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    fencedin wrote: »
    fieldog on ignore

    Unlike your neighbor?


  • #9
    listermint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,216 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    alproctor wrote: »
    i think it's crazy that you can get penalty points for using a phone while driving, yet you can eat a breakfast roll with two hands while steering with your knee with a bottle of coke between your legs cos you've no can holder, and your passenger operating the gears......
    "Ready - 2nd....... Ready - 3rd....... That's not 3rd, it's 5th, you moron...."

    :D

    You cant, its called driving with undue care and attention.......


  • #10
    Al Capwned
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,721 ✭✭✭Al Capwned


    Gran Hermano wrote: »
    Unlike your neighbor?

    LOL
    Good shout.......


  • #11
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    If it's not a public road then many road traffic fines will not apply. If it is a not a public road but is public place then the person can be done under Section 51, 52 or 53 (among others) of the Road Traffic Acts. Simply driving while on the phone is not sufficient for these offences, there must be some element of bad driving associated with it.


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  • #12
    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,580 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    fencedin wrote: »
    Fieldog wrote: »
    I wouldn't say they would even bother following up, how can it be proven? Have you got evidence of this? I have Bluetooth in my car, thank god I don't have you living near me, I don't think the guard who lives 2 doors down from me has a hands free kit unfortunately, he may not be as lucky to escape your Sunday morning ponderings....
    obviously you do not know law or care about idiots driving where kids are and i am not interested in your high horse arguments. is the garda allowed use phone when not on duty
    No but he is the only one in my quiet nice estate that drives like an ass with kids around here, mine and my partners, whether on duty or not, he appears to be always on duty! Should I complain to the ombudsman?


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