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Speeding Ticket Query

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  • 08-07-2005 3:54pm
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    Enygma
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    Just in relation to: CiaranC's post here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=276812

    Is it ok for them to issue you a ticket 7 or 8 months after an offence? What if you've unknowingly built up 12 points over the past 8 months but haven't even gotten your first ticket yet?

    How are you supposed to modify your behaviour? There's no real room for correction. Obviously if you're speeding you're speeding, but I'd say most people would slow down after getting a few points, and isn't that the raison d'etre for the points system?

    Or is CiaranC's scenario an exceptional case?


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    Seth Brundle
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    They didn't issue him a ticket 7 or 8 months after the offence.
    Currently they send out a notice where you either admit to the offence and recive a deduction from the normal 4 points (to two) or appeal it and end up in court where if guilty you get four. If you appeal the notice or fail to reply then a summons is issued for a court date.
    What is likely in CiaranC's case was that the initial notice was not sent (presumably an accident) or sent elsewhere or was recieved at the correct address but disposed of by someone else at that address. Either way he didn't get it.
    The initial notice from experience usually takes a few weeks to arrive. the points may take up to two years to go on your licence!


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    slumped
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    Friend in work got points 3 months after the offence. Rang Traffic Office and she was told there was no limit on the amount of time.

    I agree, you cannot change your driving patterns.

    Me thinks I was caught speeding by a traffic van on the flyover where the N4 becomes a motorway heading out of Dublin. It was 2.5 months ago and I have changed address. Fingers crossed they dont get me!

    Slumped


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    Enygma
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    Two years?!?!
    And do they stay on your license for the next three years after that?


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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,363 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Enygma wrote:
    Two years?!?!
    And do they stay on your license for the next three years after that?
    yup!


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    Squirrel
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    MY mam got a notice 9 months after the date but didn't know who was driving the car at the time but wrote a letter saying she'd take the points and paid the fine, she got the cheque back and a letter saying she'd hear from the gardaí to sort it out, that was a year ago or there abouts


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    Our man in Havana
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    If they don't sent the inital notice out within 3 months of the alleged offence they are on a looser as they have to give you a. 28 days to nominate another driver and b. the nominee has 56 days to respond to the new notice.

    This would drive the course of events to over 6 months which will staute bar the case from going to court.

    Whilst there is no limit set in stone, the practical limit is 3 months.


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