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Garda Traffic on Twitter

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  • #512
    GM228
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,917 ✭✭✭GM228


    rex-x wrote: »
    They 100% can seize the car on the spot for being dangerous/defective.

    Under what legislation? S41 of the Road Traffic Act 1994 (as amended) covers seizure of vehicles and does not include dangerous/defective vehicles, the only power of seizure in relation to a vehicle which may be defective is in relation to having no valid NCT. Once there is a valid NCT they can't lift it.

    S20 of the Road Traffic Act 1961 in relation to a vehicle which is potentially dangerous does not give a power of seizure, just the ability to prevent the driver from continuing further etc as I already outlined.

    S54 of the Road Traffic Act 1961 (as amended) allows for your arrest for driving a defective vehicle, but not for the seizure of the vehicle.

    And you will be surprised that drink driving offences are the same, a power of arrest, but no power of seizure.


  • #513
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,743 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Love it, stupidity fine on it's way.

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/785077606043553792


  • #514
    coolbeans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,138 ✭✭✭coolbeans


    bazz26 wrote: »
    Love it, stupidity fine on it's way.

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/785077606043553792

    More of this please


  • #515
    Truckermal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,043 ✭✭✭Truckermal


    coolbeans wrote: »
    More of this please

    Yes sir!

    Check out @GardaTraffic's Tweet: https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/785077840144437248?s=09


  • #516
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Some Micra if it can even get to that speed.


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  • #517
    Toyotafanboi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,903 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    If you had have asked me, I would have said I didn't think a k12 would be capable of 160km/h... that thing must have been flat out, building steam for miles!

    Edit: snap!

    Must have an SR20 fitted!


  • #518
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,743 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    56830335.jpg


  • #519
    marno21
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 14,805 Mod ✭✭✭✭marno21


    Toyotafanboi wrote: »
    If you had have asked me, I would have said I didn't think a k12 would be capable of 160km/h... that thing must have been flat out, building steam for miles!

    Edit: snap!

    Must have an SR20 fitted!
    The motorway in question only started 2/3km behind where the driver was caught, so it had fierce acceleration in fairness


  • #520
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Must have been drafting


  • #521
    MadYaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,340 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    I wouldn't have thought a micra would manage 160kph off the cliffs of moher!


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  • #522
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,334 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    MadYaker wrote: »
    I wouldn't have thought a micra would manage 160kph off the cliffs of moher!

    When I was a bit younger, I was pulled over on the N7 for doing 90mph in a 1989 Vauxhall Nova. Pity they didn't have twitter back then.


  • #523
    RustyNut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭RustyNut


    Skylinehead wrote: »
    Some Micra if it can even get to that speed.

    Yer man should put it on done deal with a copy of the ticket, bound to double the value.


  • #524
    edburg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭edburg


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    When I was a bit younger, I was pulled over on the N7 for doing 90mph in a 1989 Vauxhall Nova. Pity they didn't have twitter back then.


    Nova's are go karts with engine's. Big old lad had 1 in school little 1.2 went like clappers even with 3-4 on board.


  • #525
    afatbollix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,156 ✭✭✭afatbollix


    dastardly00 wrote: »
    And here's another one...

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/783585662977077248

    If that car was involved in an accident after being stopped would the Gardai be open to problems? With the way the courts are here I'm sure the judge would have something to say.


    The problem with this is the word IF. In the UK they wouldn't of let it set off and would of called the AA to change the tire.


  • #526
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,675 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    can they not at the very least force you to put the spare on before leaving?

    (assuming its present or even in better nick)


  • #527
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,242 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    So many of these incidents in Buncrana and other parts of donegal, and thats an area which supposedly has seriously stretched garda resources. Why is it that the standard of driving and maintenance is so poor up there.


  • #528
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    A micra doing 160...wonder if the guard who nailed him was questioning if his gun was accurate. 160 on the gun is about what 170 on the speedo?


  • #529
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,519 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    A micra doing 160...wonder if the guard who nailed him was questioning if his gun was accurate. 160 on the gun is about what 170 on the speedo?

    It will do it alright.
    Is it possible was 1.2?


  • #530
    gctest50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭gctest50


    .


    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/785077606043553792


  • #531
    Vicxas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,646 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


    gctest50 wrote: »
    .


    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/785077606043553792

    raw


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  • #532
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,540 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    Vicxas wrote: »
    raw

    On a similar and related "how to fail the attitude test Limerick style" note :
    Limerick Mother apologises for telling Garda to ‘stick car up his hole’


  • #533
    inforfun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,860 ✭✭✭✭inforfun


    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    On a similar and related "how to fail the attitude test Limerick style" note :
    Limerick Mother apologises for telling Garda to ‘stick car up his hole’

    That is one article i shouldnt have read early monday morning after not enough sleep.
    No insurance, no valid drivers license and then getting 6 months to come up with €500 while driving a new bmw when she got caught?
    I am sure her apology was as sincere as this one

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYOZ3IzRaf4


  • #534
    edburg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭edburg


    I suspect she pissed herself laughing while driving home through the city.


  • #535
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,743 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    218 kph:

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/785396256424206336


  • #536
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,596 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    inforfun wrote: »
    No insurance, no valid drivers license and then getting 6 months to come up with €500 while driving a new bmw when she got caught?
    I am sure her apology was as sincere as this one

    Where does it say she was driving a new bmw? :pac:

    Most likely she's a scrote who picked up some 15 year old clapped out 3 Series that never had any intention to insure it, the media like to put in BMW to make it seem like she was loaded.


  • #537
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,773 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    bazz26 wrote: »
    218 kph:

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/785396256424206336

    Surprised he stopped, most bikes have their number plate hidden with the tax disc (on purpose) and no way a squad car would get anywhere near to him.
    MadYaker wrote: »
    I wouldn't have thought a micra would manage 160kph off the cliffs of moher!

    My mothers ford Ka was the first car I drove on the road, was 00 I think and I could hit a little over 90mph in it on N roads so I'm sure a newer micra could manage a bit more on a motorway.


  • #538
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    Unusual for a full driving ban to be lifted


  • #539
    tossy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,599 ✭✭✭tossy


    bazz26 wrote: »
    218 kph:

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/785396256424206336

    They got him at -218 which means they took the reading going away from them.They must have set up an operation further on or got him in traffic. It would be good going for a super car to catch him from a standing start.

    Crazy speed at 9.30 in the morning.


  • #540
    Cheensbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,704 ✭✭✭Cheensbo


    tossy wrote: »

    Crazy speed at 9.30 in the morning.

    Must have been trying to reenact the Uppsala run !


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  • #541
    tossy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,599 ✭✭✭tossy


    More like the 'up the creek' run now :D


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