How many penalty points do you have?

Commotion Ocean · 25-02-2017 08:50PM #1

How many penalty points do you have or what's the max you've ever had? I had 2 points from when I was caught exceeding the speed limit by a van (78 km/h in a 60 km/h zone).

The points were applied in January 2013 and were expunged in January 2016.

What about you?

I voted "None - I haven't been caught yet", because my previous points have expired and I haven't been caught again :P

stevveyg · 25-02-2017 08:54PM

I have 8!! Got 6 in space of a month last year.. 2 going in July. I'm the safest driver in the country now .. the amount off assholes up my ass in a 50km zone now is amazing.. dreading my insurance quote in April

Samuel T. Cogley · 25-02-2017 08:58PM

4

stevveyg wrote: »

I have 8!! Got 6 in space of a month last year.. 2 going in July. I'm the safest driver in the country now .. the amount off assholes up my ass in a 50km zone now is amazing.. dreading my insurance quote in April

I feel your pain brother.

Not wanting to get anymore than the three I have for doing 58 in a 50, is probably going to result in me having a major accident sooner rather than later.

blindside88 · 25-02-2017 09:02PM

4

I'm down to 3, was on 6, went down to 2, back up to 5. Back down to 3 now and these are gone in August. Also managed to offload a set of 3 for speeding to a "friend that was driving my car and happened to have a northern licence" last April

Arcade_Tryer · 25-02-2017 09:38PM

3

stevveyg wrote: »

I have 8!! Got 6 in space of a month last year.. 2 going in July. I'm the safest driver in the country now .. the amount off assholes up my ass in a 50km zone now is amazing.. dreading my insurance quote in April

Remember, you were once an asshole too. And still might be if your behaviour does not change when you lose the points.

I have 2. And admittedly too few given the way I drive sometimes.

Summer wind · 25-02-2017 11:01PM

None - I don't have a license

I'v never had any. Just been lucky so far. I'll probably get 5 this week now.

iwillhtfu · 25-02-2017 11:05PM

I'm not touching that poll why tempt fate.

I'd be more interested to see who get points after selecting zero etc.

CiniO · 25-02-2017 11:06PM

None - I don't have a license

I have zero, and always had 0 since I started driving in Ireland 10 years ago.

I absolutely doesn't mean though, that I obey speed limits. I don't - especially in places I know there won't be any enforcement, which is most of area I drive.
I actually do break speed limits most of the time I drive.

BeardySi · 25-02-2017 11:07PM

An option for "none - they've all expired" perhaps?

sjb25 · 25-02-2017 11:11PM

None - I don't have a license

Zero

I obviously always obey the rules

(This statement may or may not be true)

sjb25 · 25-02-2017 11:13PM

None - I don't have a license

stevveyg wrote: »

.. the amount off assholes up my ass in a 50km zone now is amazing

Most likely me sorry but get out the fcuking way will ya

wrmwit · 25-02-2017 11:16PM

None - I haven't been caught yet :)

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

I feel your pain brother.

Not wanting to get anymore than the three I have for doing 58 in a 50, is probably going to result in me having a major accident sooner rather than later.

58 in a 50, jaysus that's harsh!

I had 6 but I'm clean now.

First 2 I was going 100 in a 60 crossroads in Gurtymadden in Galway.
Second 2 I was done where the M4 ended in Kinnegad. I was raging but I didn't complain cos I was on my way home after spending the weekend in Amsterdam!
Last 2 was along the quays at the Guinness factory.

Commotion Ocean · 26-02-2017 02:13AM

None - I don't have a license

Treadhead wrote: »

An option for "none - they've all expired" perhaps?

That's actually me. I only realised my error after the poll was posted 😋

Dr Turk Turkelton · 26-02-2017 10:17AM

wrmwit wrote: »

58 in a 50, jaysus that's harsh!

I had 6 but I'm clean now.

First 2 I was going 100 in a 60 crossroads in Gurtymadden in Galway.
Second 2 I was done where the M4 ended in Kinnegad. I was raging but I didn't complain cos I was on my way home after spending the weekend in Amsterdam!
Last 2 was along the quays at the Guinness factory.

Was driving down the quays a couple of months ago and was keeping up with traffic when I saw the cops out with their hairdryer.
I braked reasonably hard and nearly caused a pile up.
Fücking dumb cops,either have speed checks there all the time or don't have them at all rather than the shooting fish in a barrel approach they use.
Speed limit is stupid there as no-one sticks to it,if they want to enforce it properly they should do it with zero tolerance or not at all.

Isambard · 26-02-2017 10:19AM

None - I don't have a license

are you for real?

why have it there all the time when they could have speed traps in a couple of dozen place now and again using the same resources , with the same result everywhere

Sono · 26-02-2017 10:21AM

None - I don't have a license

None, was done for speeding about 10 years ago but ended up in court over it and the judge never applied penalty points so I was lucky. Thankfully nothing ever since.

theteal · 26-02-2017 10:22AM

None - I don't have a license

Treadhead wrote: »

An option for "none - they've all expired" perhaps?

. . .because I left the country 6 years ago and I can't get points on my Irish licence over here

I did get lumped with safe driving course for doing ~40 in a 30 zone a few years ago. It was more expensive than the alternative bloody fine - I didn't know that until after I opted for it.

monkeysnapper · 26-02-2017 12:23PM

None - I don't have a license

Feel like I'm tempting fate but I'm 41 and been driving since I was 17 .

How I have a clean licence is nothing short of a miracle.

So many times I though.....o shyte , then watched post every day for weeks .

Dam it I be tempted fate haven't I ??

George Dalton · 26-02-2017 01:30PM

3

I have 2 arising from a very dodgy manoeuvre I pulled in the S4 with the guards a couple of cars behind me. I've done plenty of things over the years that would probably have landed me in jail if I was caught so all in all I'm happy with the 2 points..

Zascar · 26-02-2017 02:34PM

6

I have 5 but 2 should be falling off soon. How do you check?

bisounours · 26-02-2017 02:42PM

Brother lives in the States and is a bit of a Motorhead. Usually gets pulled over in the 80-100+mph range. Lives in a state that believes in safety education and community service so has been back to traffic school 3 times in the past 2 years and re-painted little old ladies' houses instead of fines and points...

blade1 · 26-02-2017 02:48PM

None - I haven't been caught yet :)

0 since during the week

Samuel T. Cogley · 26-02-2017 03:15PM

4

bisounours wrote: »

Brother lives in the States and is a bit of a Motorhead. Usually gets pulled over in the 80-100+mph range. Lives in a state that believes in safety education and community service so has been back to traffic school 3 times in the past 2 years and re-painted little old ladies' houses instead of fines and points...

I'd have gladly given up an afternoon and picked up litter in Fairview Park (got done by the gatso in Fairview) than paid €80 and got three points which have taught me absolutely nothing other than watch the Speedo not the road when going through Fairview.

I was pulled doing '180' on the M50 not two weeks before and got a stern warning. I know there has to be discretion and I applaud that. The warning I got actually changed my driving. The Gatso is there probably because of the poor lad that got killed up there, I applaud that also but its on the wrong side of the road and too far down towards town.

The_Honeybadger · 26-02-2017 04:05PM

Got six in the space of a couple of weeks last year. Three for 62 in a 50 in Dublin when I was lost in an unfamiliar area and just drifted over.

The next three a few weeks after were fairly harsh I thought. I was stopped in gridlocked traffic and plugged my phone in to charge. Garda looking straight at me and did me for holding a phone while in charge of a vehicle. But of common sense wouldn't have gone amiss there I thought. I have Bluetooth in the car and never normally hold a phone or text while driving.

I'm like driving miss daisy now sticking rigidly to the limit everywhere. When I'm on my way home I have to go through a number of villages and have lads overtaking me and and sitting on my back bumper all the way.

carzony · 26-02-2017 10:22PM

None - I don't have a license

I had 2 but they have since expired. Like many on this thread it's a miracle I've no points.

I'm always in a big hurry. I work night so driving home at 6am on a saturday,sunday morning is always fun..

CiniO · 26-02-2017 10:44PM

None - I don't have a license

I wonder if anyone is going beat me.
About 15 years ago, I managed to collect 28 points within a year (in Poland where limit is 24).

tom85 · 26-02-2017 11:02PM

None - I don't have a license

CiniO wrote: »

I wonder if anyone is going beat me.
About 15 years ago, I managed to collect 28 points within a year (in Poland where limit is 24).

Well tell me how is anyone going to beat that when you off the road in Ireland with 12 point and this is an Irish website so we don't care how many point you can get in poland anyway

CiniO · 26-02-2017 11:04PM

None - I don't have a license

tom85 wrote: »

Well tell me how is anyone going to beat that when you off the road in Ireland with 12 point and this is an Irish website so we don't care how many point you can get in poland anyway

Well if limit in Poland is 24, and in Ireland 12 which is half, let's say someone getting more than 14 is going to beat me

Besides, if you don't care about info from my posts, then why do you bother reading or replying to them?
I don't care about info from probably about 90% of posts in this forum, so if I'm not interested in something I just skip it, and only involve in posts I'm interested in.
Pretty simple.

Samuel T. Cogley · 26-02-2017 11:05PM

4

tom85 wrote: »

Well tell me how is anyone going to beat that when you off the road in Ireland with 12 point and this is an Irish website so we don't care how many point you can get in poland anyway

I cared deeply.

Charlie19 · 26-02-2017 11:10PM

5

No points at the moment.

Had 4 a few years back, I was caught on two occasions not having the seat belt on.

Autosport · 26-02-2017 11:52PM

None - I don't have a license

Got 2 points in 2005 for doing 80 in a 70 zone near Dublin airport but to be fair it was at 3am and there wasn't much traffic

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