Do you have penalty points?

bear1 · 28-08-2014 12:01PM

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

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.

I read over your post there and hadn't noticed the caravan part.
Bad luck alright.
Just remembered another one, will probably get into ****e for saying it but whatever.
After I had received my 4 points for speeding, I obviously hadn't learnt my lesson yet and got caught a month or 2 later going 60 in a 50.
So I was coming up to 6 points and fierce amount of **** with the insurance company.
Luckily my gf at the time had a foreign drivers licence, she ok'd it and I passed on the 2 points to her and paid the 80e fine.
As I said, morally it wasn't the best but fcuk it.

Spring Onion · 28-08-2014 12:11PM

How can u check if old penalty points have expired? They expire after 3 years right?

zetalambda · 28-08-2014 12:13PM

Spring Onion wrote: »

How can u check if old penalty points have expired? They expire after 3 years right?

You'll receive a letter stating the date that the points are effective from. 3 years from that date.

TheBody · 28-08-2014 12:15PM

I over took a garda car on an 100km/h dual carriageway. He was doing 80 ish and I was doing 100 when I passed him out. He gave me two points for not driving with consideration!!

Clearly somebody pissed in his cornflakes that morning!

bear1 · 28-08-2014 12:16PM

Spring Onion wrote: »

How can u check if old penalty points have expired? They expire after 3 years right?

You would need to call the RSA and quote your licence number.

bear1 · 28-08-2014 12:16PM

TheBody wrote: »

I over took a garda car on an 100km/h dual carriageway. He was doing 80 and I was doing 100 when I passed him out. He gave me two points for not driving with consideration!!

Clearly somebody pissed in his cornflakes that morning!

Consideration? I'd be fighting this now tbh.

clappyhappy · 28-08-2014 12:19PM

I got 2 points almost three years ago, doing 58 in a 50. Due go expire soon thankfully, but I always adhere to the speed limit since.

newbie13 · 28-08-2014 12:20PM

2 penalty points and € 80 for exceeding the speed limit on 50km/h on a dual carriageway in Galway while I was at 92 km/h .

Nobody drives with 50km/h on that road but guards catch me.

TheBody · 28-08-2014 12:20PM

bear1 wrote: »

Consideration? I'd be fighting this now tbh.

I honestly couldn't be bothered. I have more important things to be at than wasting my time with a pissed off Garda.

The points will be cleared off my licence next April.

BarryD · 28-08-2014 12:25PM

monkeysnapper wrote: »

I'm 38 and been driving since I was 17 , never had a point, don't know how I've got away with it but I have . I'd say I'm a carefull driver but by the letter of the law I break law every day .
I once set out not to break the law driving my car and as I went to work driving though the 3 villages I have to go though I had cars backed up behind me , the pressure was huge!!!! I had to increase my speed to keep in flow with the traffic .
I await the abuse I'm going to get for saying this . :0)

I'd guess that's about on the money for most people - you can be a careful driver, a defensive driver, a considerate driver and still by the letter of the law, be breaking it often enough.

anncoates · 28-08-2014 12:55PM

I've none but if I did, rest assured it would be everybody's fault except my own

Kev.OC · 28-08-2014 01:29PM

4 points for speeding about 6 months apart. First one was doing 80kph in a 50kph zone. It was either coming into or leaving a town, cause I wasn't doing that speed going through it.

Second one was 127kph in a 100kph zone. It was a dual carriageway, and I'd kept up my motorway speeds.

Both deserved, but still pissed to have gotten them. That being said though, they have (mostly) worked, I'm more careful now.

bear1 · 28-08-2014 01:32PM

Does anyone know if the M18 Limerick Gort motorway still 100 or has it been upgraded to 120?
Absolutely idiocy of them to have had 100 on it.

Odyssey 2005 · 28-08-2014 01:37PM

bear1 wrote: »

Does anyone know if the M18 Limerick Gort motorway still 100 or has it been upgraded to 120?
Absolutely idiocy of them to have had 100 on it.

Cachingg:rolleyes:!!!
More money

28-08-2014 01:39PM

newbie13 wrote: »

2 penalty points and € 80 for exceeding the speed limit on 50km/h on a dual carriageway in Galway while I was at 92 km/h .

Nobody drives with 50km/h on that road but guards catch me.

It always surprises me it's 50 but I do try to stick to it
Same as the 80 kph on the N4 which NOBODY sticks to. You feel like a right plank tootling along in the left driving lane with everyone else whizzing past
Still, feel more like a plank getting points for it I guess. That's what I tell myself...

Odyssey 2005 · 28-08-2014 01:41PM

bear1 wrote: »

I read over your post there and hadn't noticed the caravan part.
Bad luck alright.
Just remembered another one, will probably get into ****e for saying it but whatever.
After I had received my 4 points for speeding, I obviously hadn't learnt my lesson yet and got caught a month or 2 later going 60 in a 50.
So I was coming up to 6 points and fierce amount of **** with the insurance company.
Luckily my gf at the time had a foreign drivers licence, she ok'd it and I passed on the 2 points to her and paid the 80e fine.
As I said, morally it wasn't the best but fcuk it.

Nuttin wrong with that, it's called " playing by their rules";)

Last_Minute · 28-08-2014 01:49PM

I had 10 points at one stage. Good thing I'm back down to 0 again now.

I Heart Internet · 28-08-2014 02:26PM

I had two points for a while for speeding (55Km in a 40Km zone I think). Fair cop.

Probably warrants another thread but I get very annoyed with drivers who can't/won't travel at appropriate speeds. I do a lot of driving and meet plenty of drivers doing say 60kmh on a 100kmh national route in good conditions. I have zero problem with a learner driver doing this, or a vehicle that can't go any faster - but "competent" drivers who can't/don't trust their skills to go more than 60 kmh on a N Route are bad and dangerous drivers.

JillyQ · 28-08-2014 04:19PM

bear1 wrote: »

Does anyone know if the M18 Limerick Gort motorway still 100 or has it been upgraded to 120?
Absolutely idiocy of them to have had 100 on it.

Its 120 normal motorway speed only part that isnt is on the way into limerick.

bear1 · 28-08-2014 04:20PM

I suppose it would also be asking too much if they raised the limits of the motorways to 130 to coincide with most of Europe

cml387 · 28-08-2014 04:23PM

bear1 wrote: »

I suppose it would also be asking too much if they raised the limits of the motorways to 130 to coincide with most of Europe

Some countries in Europe.

bear1 · 28-08-2014 04:25PM

cml387 wrote: »

Some countries in Europe.

Yep my mistake you are right:

http://www.theaa.ie/AA/Motoring-advice/Driving-in-Europe/Speed-Limits.aspx

Max you can do in Norway is 90 :eek:

lukesmom · 28-08-2014 04:26PM

No I've none

biko · 28-08-2014 04:39PM

Got nabbed speeding a couple times, points and fined. Long ago though.

Pherekydes · 28-08-2014 05:11PM

bluewolf wrote: »

Same as the 80 kph on the N4 which NOBODY sticks to.

I do!

Speed checks very frequent along there.

It's hilarious to see cars flying past and then sychronized braking when they see the gatso van. :rolleyes:

BarryD · 28-08-2014 05:34PM

The 80kph limit on the N4 or the old N4 from Kilcock towards Kilbeggan is exactly the sort of limit that brings speed limits into controversy. This was a 100kph road when it was the N4, wide in many places with hard shoulders and plenty of traffic. Since the M4 was built, there's less traffic, the road is the exact same and yet the speed limit drops. Why?

Nothing to do with safety as far as I can see but a commercial speed limit to encourage people to use the adjacent tolled motorway - a public/private enterprise I think?

Compare to old N9 paralleled by the new M9 - the old N9 now called the R448 is very like the old N4 and yet it retains the 100kph. What's the difference - well let's see, the M9 is a public toll free motorway..............

Clearly in this instance the speed limits are commercially driven rather than safety driven.

Gerinspain · 28-08-2014 06:29PM

I have 15 points

I have a Spanish driving licence and you start off with 12 points and lose them for any law breaks - like 4 points for throwing a fag end out the car window. But a few years ago they gave 2 extra points to people who hadn't lost any in the previous 3 years, and they add an extra point for each 3 years clean driving.

I have been fined for parking on the footpath and for speeding - got caught 600 meters from home.

Do you have penalty points?

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