Garda Traffic on Twitter

JC01

LawlessBoy wrote: »

But at the end of the day its fair enough to say that about a bike, the reg being only on the back, usually smaller and sometimes covered by the tax disc :pac: If its a car all they need is the reg number surely?

I wonder how much of the reg they would get looking at a car go by at that speed, even on the squad car camera, either way your probably better off taking your chances and saying your mechanic Jaskop had the car for the day

Shannon757

nice_guy80 wrote: »

Downhill? So extra gravity too...

It very well could have been a Micra so

Tazio

infacteh wrote: »

A Ferrari I believe

Kinda thought it would be exotic/rare/ or easy to identify owner as there was no photo of vehicle on the tweet.. they normally put a photo of one with the speed....

GM228

6 times over the limit!

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/802937208806211584

Atlantic Dawn

At night with no lights, the 2 high vis vests attached aren't much use. About time those with illegal trailers were pulled over, I see them every single day with either no or incorrect plates or no lights...

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/802962813740351488

flazio

Question, do Traffic Corps have tyre stingers?

bear1

flazio wrote: »

Question, do Traffic Corps have tyre stingers?

Planning something?

D Trent

flazio wrote: »

Question, do Traffic Corps have tyre stingers?

This will answer your Q

GM228

flazio wrote: »

Question, do Traffic Corps have tyre stingers?

Yes, but not all traffic cars carry them.

punisher5112

Run flats or if you have time and money a tank would work well.

flazio

punisher5112 wrote: »

Run flats or if you have time and money a tank would work well.

Who would go to that much trouble just to get one over? What are they trying to prove? (the run flats, not the tank)

inforfun

GM228 wrote: »

6 times over the limit!

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/802937208806211584

You should write newspaper headlines

22 microgrammes the limit is about 1 shot glass of beer.

http://www.uglpromille.nl/

GM228

inforfun wrote: »

You should write newspaper headlines

22 microgrammes the limit is about 1 shot glass of beer.

http://www.uglpromille.nl/

Yes but it depends on when the person last drank vs when they were stoped, their age, weight sex, stress levels, metabolism, the type of alcohol, when food was last consumed etc, they could easily have downed 5 pints + before being tested, a reading is not an indication of how much you drank, just how much may still be in your system at the time you are stoped, at the time of being stoped they were still 6 times over the limit and 134 means a mandatory 3 year ban and rightly so!

inforfun

Last line: 0.25 promille is about 1 standard glass of beer
Website is Dutch. Our standard glass is not even half a pint, 0.2l

I suppose we are talking about an L driver here with a limit that low?

GM228

inforfun wrote: »

Last line: 0.25 promille is about 1 standard glass of beer
Website is Dutch. Our standard glass is not even half a pint, 0.2l

I suppose we are talking about an L driver here with a limit that low?

No 22 is for all drivers except learner, novice and professional drivers who are 9.

elric

inforfun wrote: »

Last line: 0.25 promille is about 1 standard glass of beer
Website is Dutch. Our standard glass is not even half a pint, 0.2l

I suppose we are talking about an L driver here with a limit that low?

You've missed that the measurement units are different. The Irish legislation uses microgrammes per 100 millilitres of breath (and those units are used in the photo). The Dutch website uses microgrammes per litre. You need to multiply the Irish measurement by 10 to get the per litre measurement.

inforfun

Good point.

3.04 promille then.
Makes a lot more sense to get a 3 year ban for that.

quietsailor

GM228 wrote: »

No 22 is for all drivers except learner, novice and professional drivers who are 9.

Something I ran across recently is that if you are a private car driver pullling a trailer you drop from the 22mg/ml limit to the 9 mg/ml limit.

Thoie

lollsangel wrote: »

I'd you didn't want to wear your belt couldn't you either click in the passenger one into the driver side...click the belt behind your back or just disconnect the sensor...why waste moneyon this????...still I suppose they are dim enough to drive around unbelted

Someone must have thought yours was a great idea!

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/803280249093910528

GM228

quietsailor wrote: »

Something I ran across recently is that if you are a private car driver pullling a trailer you drop from the 22mg/ml limit to the 9 mg/ml limit.

That's only if you have an EB (now shown as BE) licence. If you just have an ordinary B licence pulling a trailer it's still 22, however if your pulling a trailer that you should hold a EB licence for but don't (i.e the trailer MAM is greater than 750kg or trailer is above 750kg and tbe overall vehicle and trailer weight exceeds 3,500kg) then 9 applies.

job seeker

Thoie wrote: »

Someone must have thought yours was a great idea!

The old, non belt-a-rooney trick .jpg

Now that's a whole new level of stupid..

Special Circumstances

Thoie wrote: »

Someone must have thought yours was a great idea!

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/803280249093910528

job seeker wrote: »

Now that's a whole new level of stupid..

"Part of their culture"

job seeker

Special Circumstances wrote: »

"Part of their culture"

Ya, the culture of stupidity..

neris

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/803570356438994944

Special Circumstances

mmmmmm, murphys.

Voodoomelon

D Trent wrote: »

This will answer your Q

Perusing the car down the wrong way of a dual carriageway, madness. Especially with air support, how does flashing lights a hundred metres back warn motorists? Surely against pursuit protocols.

bazz26

This must be a very expensive phone call:

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/803694476162109440

nice_guy80

bazz26 wrote: »

This must be a very expensive phone call:

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/803694476162109440

Caught by a mountain bike! Ha!

Also, I had a car driving behind me today where there was a child jumping around the car interior and veering all over the place.

Suddenly it did a U-turn and disappeared.
Then I spotted a garda checkpoint 200m up the road.
Eyes like hawks they had. Spidey senses!

dastardly00

This is so bad but I still can't help laughing...

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/803894521725587456

dastardly00

This is a direct result of Jaguar's "Good to be Bad" ad campaign!! :pac: :pac:

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/804064550106648583