think i got caught speeding?

corkcity

HELP
going down a hill this evening and saw a garda with a hand held speed gun pointing straight at me .speed limit was 50kms .i was doing at a max 58 to 60kms.he never stopped me so im baffled .it was a handheld speed gun so will i get it in the post or should i be ok????????

thanks all

JustAddWater

corkcity wrote: »

HELP
going down a hill this evening and saw a garda with a hand held speed gun pointing straight at me .speed limit was 50kms .i was doing at a max 58 to 60kms.he never stopped me so im baffled .it was a handheld speed gun so will i get it in the post or should i be ok????????

thanks all

Guard with a gun must stop you there and then.

If he didn't, you're grand!

dh0011

sounds like your ok. Just so you know your speedometer is calibrated in such a way that your indicated speed is always higher than actual speed by a few mph. Also the guard is not going to do you if you are just a couple of miles over the limit. Was it the spot on the way in from blarney by any chance? I have a similar story there from a few months back and never heard anything.

corkcity

thank for the replys

it was on the grange road ,going down the hill towards douglas .he was leaning up against the wall as on the right hand side .no car or bike with him.looked so relaxed as if he wasnt going to stop anyone .as far as i could see he only had the handheld gun .nothing attached to it pointing at traffic coming down the hill.the road was busy so if he did try to step out he would have been hit by a car

dh0011

sometimes when the do speed checks like that they have a lad down the road who they tell on the walkie talkie to pull in the car that went by.
Sounds like your ok.
Gards that side of the city are doing a bit these days. They have been checking speed on the boreennamanna road and the skehard rd in blackrock

corkcity

its just weird ,there was no sign of any other car or bike for him to call to stop anyone .can the handheld cameras take your reg picture too

dh0011

no they cant. They are somewhere nearby - possibly in an unmarked mondeo

corkcity

id say a was caught twice as i drove up the road first so he would have got the reg from the back and then again on the way back home as i was going so slow passing him as i saw him i slowed down.do they have any other handheld cameras that take a reading of your reg or do they use the same cameras all the time

HurtLocker

corkcity wrote: »

its just weird ,there was no sign of any other car or bike for him to call to stop anyone .can the handheld cameras take your reg picture too

Sure it was a guard? A friend of mine told me last week of seeing a guy on the cragrahane straight literally holding a hairdryer and pointing at cars. Don't know when this happened though.

dh0011

they have very few of those cameras in the country
your grand lad relax

corkcity

i did get 2 points 7 years ago when i was young and dumb.since then i never ever speed so really annoyed .took my eye off the clock so just really annoyed.have been searching other replys on the internet and some are saying that you can still get the fine in the post

dh0011

chances are tiny

Anan1

corkcity wrote: »

i did get 2 points 7 years ago when i was young and dumb.since then i never ever speed so really annoyed .took my eye off the clock so just really annoyed.have been searching other replys on the internet and some are saying that you can still get the fine in the post

An indicated 60km/h is really only about 55 - I'd have been surprised if he had stopped you. I'd say you're fine.

corkcity

car is brand new .so its not like i could feel what speed i was doing .newer cars are smoother if ya get that i mean,the most i was doing was 60kms so id say that was over the leeway

Anan1

corkcity wrote: »

the most i was doing was 60kms so id say that was over the leeway

Like I just said, an indicated 60 most likely wasn't.

dh0011

you ll be ok corkcity

hiltan

Overspeeding is not a good thing you have to drive carefully and mostly accidents happened due to over speed.

HurtLocker

hiltan wrote: »

Overspeeding is not a good thing you have to drive carefully and mostly accidents happened due to over speed.

News to me. Was he driving in first gear? I really doubt he red lined his revs at 60km/h.

wil

JustAddWater wrote: »

Guard with a gun must stop you there and then.

If he didn't, you're grand!

is this an urban myth or true?

Passed one on N7 northbound before Kill I think Monday night about 11pm. Light traffic, no sign of any backup, just herself and her Polaroid shooting fish on 3 lane carriageway.
Despite all the hype didn't see a single one whole weekend of driving. I thought they were meant to be targeting problem spots not filling quotas on the safest roads in Ireland.

00833827

wil wrote: »

Despite all the hype didn't see a single one whole weekend of driving. I thought they were meant to be targeting problem spots not filling quotas on the safest roads in Ireland.

was thinking the same myself last weekend, i do come across the go-slow vans in one of a few possible spots the odd time on my commute to work but its been absolutely months since i have meet a Garda Speedcheck or checkpoint for Tax/Ins/NCT

dh0011

well corkcity - did you get a letter yet?

carzony

wrong post