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Does a garda with a speed gun have to stop you?

  • 06-06-2015 10:52am
    #1
    wexfordman2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,558 ✭✭✭


    Just been waved at by a cards with a speed gun, the kind of wave to tell you to slow down.

    Have I been done ? He didn't pull me over !


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  • #2
    Greenmachine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    What kind of wave means slow down?


  • #3
    pippip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭pippip


    Greenmachine wrote: »
    What kind of wave means slow down?

    I'm guessing the op means hand up and down as per rotr.

    He may have spotted you speeding but you were too close to get you to stop safely so warned you.

    If its on a tripod they don't have to stop you but handheld he would.


  • #4
    wexfordman2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,558 ✭✭✭wexfordman2


    Greenmachine wrote: »
    What kind of wave means slow down?

    The one where he stands up and waves one arm up and Down!!

    Thought he was pulling me over, but he didn't


  • #5
    Greenmachine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    pippip wrote: »
    I'm guessing the op means hand up and down as per rotr.

    He may have spotted you speeding but you were too close to get you to stop safely so warned you.

    If its on a tripod they don't have to stop you but handheld he would.

    Doesn't that mean stop.


  • #6
    Goshen
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 116 ✭✭Goshen


    Greenmachine wrote: »
    Doesn't that mean stop.

    Did you pass your test


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  • #7
    biko
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    hand-signals.gif


  • #8
    pippip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭pippip


    RRCar2.PNG

    used to indicate you are slowing down but recognised as the signal to slow down in general.


  • #9
    Greenmachine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    Goshen wrote: »
    Did you pass your test

    Maybe I don't drive around excessively speeding. A guard has never had a need to tell me to slow on.


  • #10
    Greenmachine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    pippip wrote: »
    RRCar2.PNG

    used to indicate you are slowing down but recognised as the signal to slow down in general.

    I rememeber the indicator failing in one car, I was driving. Was the most terrifying drive ever. Gave lots of time with the signal which other road users, simply chose to ignore or maybe didn't understand. I'll never know.


  • #11
    Goshen
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 116 ✭✭Goshen


    Greenmachine wrote: »
    Maybe I don't drive around excessively speeding. A guard has never had a need to tell me to slow on.

    Well, If you encounter a guard with his paw up, palm facing you, he's not waving hello. He's saying stop.


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  • #12
    Greenmachine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    Goshen wrote: »
    Well, If you encounter a guard with his paw up, palm facing you, he's not waving hello. He's saying stop.

    Who do you think you are educating here. You are coming across as a complete smart ass.


  • #13
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Ok, back on topic.


  • #14
    Edwardius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Edwardius


    Got the same from a guard who had been hiding with a speed gun on the quays a few weeks back. Was about 5k over. Presumably he wasn't arsed pulling someone for so little over the limit. You're ok OP.


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