Do you have penalty points?

freshpopcorn · 27-08-2014 02:19PM

seanbarrow wrote: »

Got two yesterday for not wearing a seat belt on main street, the guard could walk faster than I was going but the law is the law I guess.

Don't you get three now for not wearing a seat belt? I think they upef it from two to three on the first of August!

Dial Hard · 27-08-2014 02:23PM

I had 8 at one stage, all for speeding, but they've all expired now. Got 4 within a week of eachother first, then the other four within two weeks of eachother about 8 months later. The good thing about that was that they were all cleared around the same time too.

Babooshka · 27-08-2014 02:23PM

Dial Hard wrote: »

I had 8 at one stage, all for speeding, but they've all expired now. Got 4 within a week of eachother first, then the other four within two weeks of eachother about 8 months later. The good thing about that was that they were all cleared around the same time too.

Kinda scary, that.

Tarzana · 27-08-2014 02:24PM

I don't drive so I should hope not. :eek:

Jazzzman · 27-08-2014 02:34PM

8 or 10 I think and I couldn't care less! yolo etc.

Dial Hard · 27-08-2014 02:36PM

Babooshka wrote: »

Kinda scary, that.

My commute alone was 1,000km a week, so law of averages, really. What pissed me off most was that in my 6-odd years of doing that kind of mileage, I never once saw a checkpoint on a winding, dangerous stretch of road, but all four times I was caught it was in areas where the speed limit had just changed down from 100 to either 80 or 60. Actually, that's a lie, on one occasion the speed limit was about to change up; I was about 25m away from the sign and accelerating when the Garda jumped out of the bush pulled me in. All of which does nothing for perception of a lot of people that speed checks are more about generating revenue than they are safety.

rottie 11 · 27-08-2014 02:37PM

I have 2 points. Was pulling into an estate with no belt and on the phone and didnt have licence on me . He only gave me 2points and 80 euro fine

Toto Wolfcastle · 27-08-2014 02:42PM

I got 2 (is it 2 for speeding?) for doing 60 in a 50 zone. Not long after I paid the fine I got a letter telling me that they'd reversed the points and I got my money back. I still have no idea why. I'm super careful about speed limits now.

Menas · 27-08-2014 02:43PM

No, but that is really pushing the boundaries of luck.

doubledown · 27-08-2014 02:43PM

Jazzzman wrote: »

8 or 10 I think and I couldn't care less! yolo etc.

You'll care if you get a few more and end up disqualified from driving for six months...

Jazzzman · 27-08-2014 02:45PM

doubledown wrote: »

You'll care if you get a few more and end up disqualified from driving for six months...

if if if

Shenshen · 27-08-2014 02:53PM

Dial Hard wrote: »

My commute alone was 1,000km a week, so law of averages, really. What pissed me off most was that in my 6-odd years of doing that kind of mileage, I never once saw a checkpoint on a winding, dangerous stretch of road, but all four times I was caught it was in areas where the speed limit had just changed down from 100 to either 80 or 60. Actually, that's a lie, on one occasion the speed limit was about to change up; I was about 25m away from the sign and accelerating when the Garda jumped out of the bush pulled me in. All of which does nothing for perception of a lot of people that speed checks are more about generating revenue than they are safety.

Little known fact (even among the guards, I understand) is that you are allowed to speed up once the sign with the higher speed limit is in sight, as long as your speed doesn't exceed what's on the sign, though.

It's also true the other way around, you're supposed to slow down coming up to a sign with a lower speed limit, so that when passing the sign you only do the allowed speed.

My driving instructor had a guard call his station at one point as she insisted on this being part of the rules of the road. Guard apparently got a dressing-down by his superior and told to stand himself somewhere else.

rottie 11 · 27-08-2014 02:57PM

I have 2 points. Was pulling into an estate with no belt and on the phone and didnt have licence on me . He only gave me 2points and 80 euro fine

Dial Hard · 27-08-2014 02:58PM

rottie 11 wrote: »

I have 2 points. Was pulling into an estate with no belt and on the phone and didnt have licence on me . He only gave me 2points and 80 euro fine

We heard you the first time.

Babooshka · 27-08-2014 08:56PM

Shenshen wrote: »

It's also true the other way around, you're supposed to slow down coming up to a sign with a lower speed limit, so that when passing the sign you only do the allowed speed.

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Quite impossible to do this on some roads due to every single driver speeding, like coming off the N7 at the red cow for example, the sign says slow to 30 on approaching the slip, you would cause a crash if you slowed to 30 there cos everyone else is doing 70 or 80 (in a 60 zone... before the sign changes to thirty).It's a scary joke.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 27-08-2014 09:02PM

No I don't, by some miracle

Odyssey 2005 · 27-08-2014 09:17PM

I have 2. Got them doin 88 ina 100 km zone. I was overtaking a slow kunt that had held up a line of about 20 cars for MIlES We were all in an overtaking lane, up hill where slow vehicles stay left. I was towing a caravan.

_Kaiser_ · 27-08-2014 09:46PM

Zero points myself and I don't particularly worry about arbitrary limits either - I drive according to the conditions (visibility/weather, road surface, traffic volume, location etc) rather than what it says on a road sign that a lot of the time is too high/low for the stretch of road anyway

JillyQ · 27-08-2014 09:52PM

2 points was caught on the phone the day before the big fines came in. I was lucky only had to pay €80.

Autosport · 27-08-2014 11:09PM

None but some speed limits need to be looked at as they are ridiculous

AnonoBoy · 27-08-2014 11:48PM

I still get pints after that penalty even though it was 24 years ago.

So yes. Plenty of penalty pints.

Yours sincerely,

David O'Leary.

keith16 · 27-08-2014 11:52PM

JillyQ wrote: »

I was lucky only had to pay €80.

Who the hell were you calling for that price :pac:

Zero points myself. Although I frequently drove in Bus lanes. Got caught once and paid a 60 quid fine. Well worth it IMO with all the time I saved driving in certain sections.

131spanner · 27-08-2014 11:59PM

Nope, none as of yet. A close call or two with speeding vans, but tax, insurance and NCT are always up to date.

Cookie_Monster · 28-08-2014 12:59AM

I've got 15

fryup · 28-08-2014 09:13AM

have 2, expecting another two anyday now as i drove through a red light/pedestrian crossing in killarney

silly i know but it was one of those ped crossing just off a roundabout

Pherekydes · 28-08-2014 09:49AM

Null points.

Dodged a bullet earlier this year when a notice popped in the door for the wife's car, which I drive a lot, especially as she's a much more cautious (i.e. slower) driver than me, but it turned out (after checking text messages) that she was driving. 60 in a 50 zone. The mad bitch!

Got two speeding fines before the points system came in for 66 in a 40 zone, and 70 in a 60 zone, but no points since the system came in.

bear1 · 28-08-2014 10:43AM

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

I have 2. Got them doin 88 ina 100 km zone. I was overtaking a slow kunt that had held up a line of about 20 cars for MIlES We were all in an overtaking lane, up hill where slow vehicles stay left. I was towing a caravan.

How did you get 2 points for going slower than the limit?

gozunda · 28-08-2014 11:04AM

Shenshen wrote: »

Little known fact (even among the guards, I understand) is that you are allowed to speed up once the sign with the higher speed limit is in sight, as long as your speed doesn't exceed what's on the sign, though.

It's also true the other way around, you're supposed to slow down coming up to a sign with a lower speed limit, so that when passing the sign you only do the allowed speed.

My driving instructor had a guard call his station at one point as she insisted on this being part of the rules of the road. Guard apparently got a dressing-down by his superior and told to stand himself somewhere else.

Certainly not detailed in any rules of the road I ever came across. Sounds like a urban legend tbh.

you are allowed to speed up once the sign with the higher speed limit is in sight

So say its a reduced speed zone on a straight road and you can see the higher speed sign from over half way along the zone. Does that mean because the sign "is in sight" you can accelerate at that point. What exactly is "in sight" supposed to mean???

I fracking hate when eejits use reduced speed zones as overtaking opportunities especially when they know other drivers will start to accelerate once outside the zone. I have seem many incidents where such eejits have only narrowly avoided oncoming traffic. A reduced speed zone is not an acceleration or overtaking oopportunity imo. Don't think acceleration "in sight" is a fact either ...

Odyssey 2005 · 28-08-2014 11:39AM

bear1 wrote: »

How did you get 2 points for going slower than the limit?

Speed limit towing is 80 kph. Basterds obviously examine all the tapes cos I was in a long line of traffic doing the same speed. They picked out lorries and the like of me and sent love letters. Safety me hole.

zetalambda · 28-08-2014 12:00PM

I got two points for doing 110 km in a 60 km area. I was undertaking at the time in a bus lane. I was also on my provisional. I gladly took the points.

Do you have penalty points?

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