Garda Traffic on Twitter 2

punisher5112

That the vignale in last one....

joujoujou

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1211275666865475587

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1211282840463331329

zell12

Be VERY careful getting into a car with a young male driver
https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1211443494906150913?s=20

kirving

Elderly women (and men) are also a high risk catagory, but noone talks about that.

Also, the RSA's statistics publications read, and look like they were compiled by a TY student on work experience.

Embarrassingly amateur levels of analysis, picking out thinks like deaths vs. day of the week, when the standard deviation is massive, and no reasoning as to why Tuesday is most dangerous one year, and Wednesday the next.

punisher5112

Garda check point outside Connolly station this evening, the traffic was backed up to O'Connell bridge and possibly further.

They had 3 cars lifted that I seen and more were been pulled in. Seemed to be tax, insurance and NCT but possibly drug testing etc too.

joujoujou

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1211696608024440832

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1211914172419756037

Mr Snow

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1211965644373147648

Mr Snow

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1212061478817337345

punisher5112

Only a fixed penalty for doing 77km/h over the speed limit...

tuxy

punisher5112 wrote: »

Only a fixed penalty for doing 77km/h over the speed limit...

Biker, different rules.
They were probably just in shock that he even stopped.

That’s where they need a mobile crusher and hand him a cube.

Mr Snow

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1212404595097587714

Mr Snow

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1212651883925557248

Mr Snow

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1212467119427854337

colm_mcm

Go on the VAG stuff!

bazz26

They seem to be a self fulfilling prophecy alright.

Emmersonn

I don't think this made their twitter page
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/bus-driver-arrested-on-suspicion-of-drink-driving-in-cork-1.4128871

colm_mcm

Emmersonn wrote: »

I don't think this made their twitter page
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/bus-driver-arrested-on-suspicion-of-drink-driving-in-cork-1.4128871

Level for a professional driver is 20mg, plus he was later released without charge.
Can’t see why they’d bother posting that on twitter.

joujoujou

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1212825940251807744

Samuel T. Cogley

colm_mcm wrote: »

Level for a professional driver is 20mg, plus he was later released without charge.
Can’t see why they’d bother posting that on twitter.

Don't they pretty much always release without charge and then prepare a file for the DPP and charge once they have a direction?

Damien360

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

Don't they pretty much always release without charge and then prepare a file for the DPP and charge once they have a direction?

You are arrested at the roadside for possible drink driving charge as the device says fail but no readings. You are brought to the station and the test on the machine there is the evidential one. If you passed here, you are released without charge. Time is on your side if you are very close to a pass/fail.

On an open day at the local Garda station, the Garda there said the machine is still using heat to print on paper and regularly jams the paper (no evidence) or fails to print (no evidence). There is no other means of getting the result. Laughable really and the Garda said it was ridiculous how many get away on this. I don't remember if they can ask you to blow again.

tuxy

Damien360 wrote: »

You are arrested at the roadside for possible drink driving charge as the device says fail but no readings. You are brought to the station and the test on the machine there is the evidential one. If you passed here, you are released without charge. Time is on your side if you are very close to a pass/fail.

Observed for 45 mins at the station to ensure the suspect has not consumed anything recently that may give a false reading.
Time may or may not be on their side. If there is a significant amount of alcohol in the small intestine then they may be even more drunk as time goes on.
Although it probably takes about 90 minutes from roadside test until the test is taken at the station.

Killinator

tuxy wrote: »

Observed for 45 mins at the station to ensure the suspect has not consumed anything recently that may give a false reading.
Time may or may not be on their side. If there is a significant amount of alcohol in the small intestine then they may be even more drunk as time goes on.
Although it probably takes about 90 minutes from roadside test until the test is taken at the station.

It's only a 20 minute observation period (nil by mouth).
The arrested person also has choice of blood or urine in which case a doctor will be called.

The doctor can take a while to show up, the catch being that the reading they get from blood or urine is the reading for evidential purposes, whilst if you do breath it may be only 30 minutes after you've been arrested but 17% is knocked off the lowest of the 2 readings.
That's why in the breath readings sometimes shown the 2 readings will be higher than what it actually states the evidential reading is

I believe the observation period if arrested on suspicion of drugs is only 10 minutes

Also if machine fails for any reason you can still go to blood or urine.

Even without a sample a person can be charged with intoxicated driving based on behaviour and observations of witnesses/Gardai but obviously it's much harder to get through court

tuxy

Where do they get the doctor from?
Late at night or early morning GPs will be asleep and doctors in hospitals are usually run off their feet.

baldshin

tuxy wrote: »

Where do they get the doctor from?
Late at night or early morning GPs will be asleep and doctors in hospitals are usually run off their feet.

Doctor on call at whatever on call service the area has. If they're too busy to get there within the 3 hours then the suspect is as good as free.

Witcher

There are designated out of hours doctors.

tuxy

baldshin wrote: »

Doctor on call at whatever on call service the area has. If they're too busy to get there within the 3 hours then the suspect is as good as free.

Ah yes so it's the doctor that's on late night emergency call that night?
Makes sense.

Does the person arrested have full control over what test is taken?

Witcher

tuxy wrote: »

Ah yes so it's the doctor that's on late night emergency call that night?
Makes sense.

Does the person arrested have full control over what test is taken?

They can opt to provide blood or urine, if they can't provide the chosen sample the other will be taken.

tuxy

Witcher wrote: »

They can opt to provide blood or urine, if they can't provide the chosen sample the other will be taken.

Isn't it the Garda's discretion? I was almost sure it was the Garda that decides what method is used. The person can make a request but it's still not their decision.

Killinator

tuxy wrote: »

Where do they get the doctor from?
Late at night or early morning GPs will be asleep and doctors in hospitals are usually run off their feet.

Generally from a doctor on call service like KDoc or Shannondoc.
Even if the arrested person was in a crash and is brought to hospital an outside doctor/nurse must be used and not one of the doctors or nurses in the hospital

Most go for breath as it's quickest and easiest