Garda Traffic on Twitter

markc1184

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/857560079595446272

Yet another one with all 3 out.

joujoujou

markc1184 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/857560079595446272

Yet another one with all 3 out.

And agri diesel in da tank, obviously. :cool:

Mr Snow

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/857865637611413505

Mr Snow

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/857858766854901760

Mr Snow

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/857854718852419584

Reventon93

Why was one person fined €400 and the other €80?

Rushden

Reventon93 wrote: »

Why was one person fined €400 and the other €80?

One was a court conviction and the other was a FCPN

blackwhite

Rushden wrote: »

One was a court conviction and the other was a FCPN

And 74kmph over the limit compared to 31 (66% compared to 31%).

Reventon93

Reventon93 wrote: »

Why was one person fined €400 and the other €80?

I call bull**** on the 194kmh one.
Didn't show the vehicle.

tossy

Bam Bam Mickey wrote: »

I call bull**** on the 194kmh one.
Didn't show the vehicle.

DO you think 194 is some far off speed only achievable by air craft ?

tossy

tossy wrote: »

DO you think 194 is some far off speed only achievable by air craft ?

They take and upload pictures of cars without tax but convenient they avoided one of a serious road traffic offence??

challengemaster

Bam Bam Mickey wrote: »

The take and upload pictures of cars without tax but convenient they avoided one of a serious road traffic offence??

Take a look back at the thread. Any one in the last few pages where there's been a vehicle over 180+km/h they haven't posted a picture of the car, AFAIK. There was one of the bike at 200km/h, but apart from that nope.

boardsuser1

Remember the Ferrari that was clocked at 236km/h? No photo of that either.

Avada

Bam Bam Mickey wrote: »

I call bull**** on the 194kmh one.
Didn't show the vehicle.

Depends on the Guard sending them the photo.

Damien360

Avada wrote: »

Depends on the Guard sending them the photo.

I would assume the other charges are straight up caught red handed and nigh on impossible to contest but the excess speeder might be getting a dangerous driving charge as an addition and it could very well be contested. Might explain lack of photo for those.

blackwhite

I asked a friend who works in Traffic Corps (and has submitted pictures to the twitter team) about this before.

For anything that's going to be dealt with via prosecution without issuing an FCPN they were advised not to publish anything that could identify the "defendant to be" as it could be deemed prejudicial in court.

Looks like the twitter operators have taken to holding these pictures until after a successful prosecution - meaning a picture of the car wouldn't have been a problem after all!

D Trent

Some poor bastards holiday ruined

http://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/858032760367271936

neris

D Trent wrote: »

Some poor bastards holiday ruined

http://mobile.twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/858032760367271936

Serves em right

bear1

Good enough for the ****er.

OldMrBrennan83

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frillyleaf

Out of curiosity I've been looking at the garda twitter thread. Why isn't there many people being caught for using their phones? This is a much bigger problem than drink driving IMO....

Every morning I am at the bus stop or walking anywhere I see a shocking amount of people texting and driving - when they are in rush hour traffic, approaching pedestrian crossings and in a village with hundreds of kids going to school. I see them on M50, dual carriageways and one passed me on a corner on a back road and didn't even see me because his head was down!!

I admit that I used to talk calls but to avoid this temptation I turn my on silent and put in glove box when driving. Why aren't these drivers being caught?!

ED E

frillyleaf wrote: »

Out of curiosity I've been looking at the garda twitter thread. Why isn't there many people being caught for using their phones? This is a much bigger problem than drink driving IMO....

Every morning I am at the bus stop or walking anywhere I see a shocking amount of people texting and driving - when they are in rush hour traffic, approaching pedestrian crossings and in a village with hundreds of kids going to school. I see them on M50, dual carriageways and one passed me on a corner on a back road and didn't even see me because his head was down!!

I admit that I used to talk calls but to avoid this temptation I turn my on silent and put in glove box when driving. Why aren't these drivers being caught?!

I suspect its not one of their KPIs. If upstairs arent looking for it the beat lads wont care.

quadrifoglio verde

I will say, their twitter page has made me slow down late at night on an empty motorway.
Previously where I was happy to do 160km/h plus, now I'll just stick her in cruise at 125-130.

I used to think that you'd just get penalty points, but since seeing the amount of court appearances and bans for driving over 100 mph I'm not risking it. It's just now worth that risk.

marno21

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

I will say, their twitter page has made me slow down late at night on an empty motorway.
Previously where I was happy to do 160km/h plus, now I'll just stick her in cruise at 125-130.

I used to think that you'd just get penalty points, but since seeing the amount of court appearances and bans for driving over 100 mph I'm not risking it. It's just now worth that risk.

I've seen more Gardai out checking for speed in the last week than I have in the last year.

I've been stopped at 6 checkpoints since I started driving almost 4 years ago. 3 of those have been in the last 3 weeks.

I'm not sure how long it'll be for but it's not worth taking any risks at all at the minute.

Three of those speed checks were on motorways/dual carraigeways (M7 WB J29-J30, N18 EB J2-J1 & M8 SB J13-J14)

frillyleaf

frillyleaf wrote: »

Out of curiosity I've been looking at the garda twitter thread. Why isn't there many people being caught for using their phones? This is a much bigger problem than drink driving IMO....

Every morning I am at the bus stop or walking anywhere I see a shocking amount of people texting and driving - when they are in rush hour traffic, approaching pedestrian crossings and in a village with hundreds of kids going to school. I see them on M50, dual carriageways and one passed me on a corner on a back road and didn't even see me because his head was down!!

I admit that I used to talk calls but to avoid this temptation I turn my on silent and put in glove box when driving. Why aren't these drivers being caught?!

Totally agree.
It's rampant and we see ads all the time showing deaths caused by accidents while texting yet there is no push to shame everyone caught using their phone while driving.

frillyleaf

Bam Bam Mickey wrote: »

Totally agree.
It's rampant and we see ads all the time showing deaths caused by accidents while texting yet there is no push to shame everyone caught using their phone while driving.

Absolutely. I shudder when I think of people texting when driving / fidgeting at music on iphones in holder to change music/ social media / whatever. I was in a car yesterday with someone and I couldn't believe how distracted they were with their phone, they even had a child in the car????

I have seen bus drivers doing it on dual carraigeways etc. I called a well known building company a few weeks ago about a driver pulling out of a residential estate with a loaded cement truck - on his phone - completely distracted driving a TRUCK that weighs in access of 30 tonnes!!! If a child or person had walked infront on the truck he wouldn't even have seen them. Shocking.

I view people who text etc in an even worse light than people who drink drive........they also should be named and shamed.

1) They are risking killing people over a text / phones / whatever
2) Drink driving drastically slows reaction speed etc - texting and driving is even more dangerous as they may as well be driving with a blindfold on.

ofcork

Saw a one today in cork drive into a yellow box blocking the junction because she didn't notice traffic had stopped as she was on the phone!

markc1184

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/858414756583157760

markc1184

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/858416563606650880

ED E

markc1184 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/858416563606650880

Stopped by the ASU, probably new pants in order when he spotted two MP7 wielding Gards walking up in his mirror.