FCPN and penalty points.

billybh

Hi....the Guards pulled me after not completely stopping at a stop sign. He told me I would get an €80 fine and 3 points. This was 8 weeks ago and I still haven't heard anything.
Does it usually take this long to receive the fine?

DuckSlice

They have up to 6 months to issue you with the fine, and it wouldn't be out of the norm for them to take their time with issuing the FCPN.

AaronDJ

billybh wrote: »

Hi....the Guards pulled me after not completely stopping at a stop sign. He told me I would get an €80 fine and 3 points. This was 8 weeks ago and I still haven't heard anything.
Does it usually take this long to receive the fine?

Did you ever get the FCPN?

Also does anybody know if you need to be stopped to get sent an FCPN?(apart from a speed van)

Got stuck in a yellow box outside a Garda Station. Never got stopped but if an officer saw me could he take reg and send FCPN?

Anybody know penalty for getting stuck in a yellow box?

Whocare

billybh wrote: »

Hi....the Guards pulled me after not completely stopping at a stop sign. He told me I would get an €80 fine and 3 points. This was 8 weeks ago and I still haven't heard anything.
Does it usually take this long to receive the fine?

Didn't think that was a thing in Ireland that you must come to a complete stop

Skill Magill

Fail your test if you don't

Samuel T. Cogley

Whocare wrote: »

Didn't think that was a thing in Ireland that you must come to a complete stop

Purely out of interest what did you think a stop sign meant?

mickdw

Skill Magill wrote: »

Fail your test if you don't

Ya but to be fair, they are generally treated as yeld signs by your average driver when not undertaking a driving test.
Harsh points imo.

extra-ordinary_

mickdw wrote: »

Ya but to be fair, they are generally treated as yeld signs by your average driver when not undertaking a driving test.
Harsh points imo.

Wouldn't think so - so because lots of drivers ignore them the guards should let them off??

Skill Magill

To be fair, they're just lucky they haven't been prosecuted for breaking the law.

Whocare

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

Purely out of interest what did you think a stop sign meant?

I'm truck driver on road every day and never had a garda stop me .like I guess most people if there nothing coming drive on

mickdw

extra-ordinary_ wrote: »

Wouldn't think so - so because lots of drivers ignore them the guards should let them off??

The actual having to come to a complete stop is a technicality. If the gardai came to a complete stop themselves at every stop sign, they could go around handing out penalty points to other drivers. As they generally dont stop completely, i thimk it is rather sharp of them to be handing out these severe penalties.

McCrack

Whocare wrote: »

I'm truck driver on road every day and never had a garda stop me .like I guess most people if there nothing coming drive on

Okay, just consider it again, especially being in control of a truck

Pkiernan

Whocare wrote: »

I'm truck driver on road every day and never had a garda stop me .like I guess most people if there nothing coming drive on

The RSA is going to change the sign to read "Have a look and drive on lad, sure it'll be grand"