This is a new one for me

dh0011

I was driving to Cork earlier today and when I went past mallow there is a piece of the road which is a single carriageway with white hatching markings on the left.

A woman in a little red skoda, who was driving up my arse shot into the hatched area and undertook me. I have seen people make a lot of silly mistakes driving through the years but this was different in that it wasnt a mistake. She wanted to get by and just didnt give a hoot about the rules. It was close to a junction and could have had serious consequences.

What do be going on in some peoples heads at all?

YbFocus

I've seen many things aswell that are beyond my comprehension :rolleyes:

One I met on the N4 heading for sligo....

Oncoming traffic one slow car and a car going mad to pass but I was close so he couldn't make the pass.

As I got within 100ft he shot down the hard shoulder past the car and back out. By far the most dangerous manouevre I've seen.

I really don't understand what does go through peoples heads at all sometimes!

dh0011

I just had a look at the list of penalty point offences. I see dangerous overtaking and using a phone both get you 2 points as does Driving a vehicle on a motorway against the flow of traffic.

Is it just me or should this be overhauled to punish people who do seriously dangerous thing severely. For example Driving a vehicle on a motorway against the flow of traffic or dangerous overtaking should attract at least 8 penalty points. I dont use a phone while driving but it would annoy me that getting caught once for this relatively minor offence gets the same punishment as driving the wrong way on a motorway.

Am I mad or is the system fairly weird?

YbFocus

It's completely flawed, there should be no points for driving against the flow of traffic, it should simply be a guard escorting you to the nearest safe point and him/her saying the following "Give me your F***ing licence".
Speeding should really be incremental, caught doing outrageous speed maybe 8 points caught doing little or nothing over 2 points kind of thing.

Just really needs an overhaul dh, doubt it will ever happen!

Collibosher

Taking the slip onto the M1 at Swords today heading south, and there was a car reversing back up :rolleyes:

dh0011

I would have no problem with anyone who was thirty mph or more over the limit getting a fine of a thousand euro instead of 80 euro. This is something that could be a revenue generating measure for the government and make the roads safer.

Leo, if your listening take note.

CiniO

dh0011 wrote: »

I would have no problem with anyone who was thirty mph or more over the limit getting a fine of a thousand euro instead of 80 euro. This is something that could be a revenue generating measure for the government and make the roads safer.

Leo, if your listening take note.

I would see something like below reasonable:

Speeding by (over the limit):
0 - 10km/h - €10, no points
10 - 20km/h - €30, 1 point
20 - 30km/h - €100, 2 points
30km/h - 40km/h - €300, 5 points, 1 month driving ban
40km/h - 50km/h - €700, 10 points, 3 months driving ban
over 50km/h - €1500, 1 year driving ban.

Allowance could be less strict on motorways.

That would make much more sense than current €80, 2 points for anything you do.

dh0011

Lads, glad to see that we are all pretty much in agreement. Anyone have Leos phone number?

YbFocus

I'll text him here now

dh0011

lovely - you never know he might be a boardsie

Ken.

Years ago a fella was caught near Paulstown Co. Carlow speeding for the 3rd time. A while later he was up in front of Judge Mary Martin. She took the law to the letter which at the time said you could be fined £50(pre Euro) for going 1 mile an hour over the limit. She fined him £50 for every mile over the limit he was 92mph in a 40mph zone. Fine of £2600, 30 days to pay/ 1 month in default, no leave to appeal.