Speeding Q&A superthread

Haha I get ya. Cheers for the info.

Well, I mean, a simple answer would be a question:

'were you going over the speed limit?'

Anything after that is kind of immaterial.

I don't think so, I don't normally speed. I'm wondering if anyone is familiar with this speed trap, or is there a way to request information on it to see when or how it was calibrated?

We both already paid, but has anyone heard of submitting a freedom of information request on the statistics of this speed trap? It seems odd that we both drive tons of KMs every year, and have been through Drung maybe 4 times total, and each got a ticket 1 of those times.

Probably stops the daily 'Was in caught' , reduces it to monthly and keeps it all in one place.

Not much you can do if people don't even want to try and read the thread.

Go-safe van on the M4 eastbound yesterday, just after the M4/M6 merge. Nearly everyone seemed to be dropping speed to below 100kmph.

Any wonder we constantly have the inane questions coming up on this thread when people appear not to know the speed limit on a motorway.....

Plenty of that old fashioned driving out there. Auld lads slowing down to 60 for bends on good National Roads. Jesus wept.

They still think they’re in a Ford Anglia with crossplys that’ll put them in the hedge instead of the brand new Corolla that they are actually in!

/rant over

No chance, but if you are concerned about the small gap then just set your cruise to 100, the 5km/h over really isn't going to make any difference except over extremely long journeys

Not really, generally about 10 over but they can't give any hard and fast verification because then people would just drive right to that extra limit and when done just a few km/h over that they would.complain that they were 'just' over the new limit, and so on and so on

I think it varies depending on the road. Looking through the Garda twitter account there's a lot lower tolerance in 50 km/h areas (as it should be really) than on motorways - eg: I've never seen a post for someone stopped doing 130ish in a 120. It's all 140/150+ and ridiculous situations where someone is doing 180+ Those are rightly banned from what I've seen.

Of course this isn't a guarantee either and it depends on the Garda (and that inconsistency is also why these questions keep repeating), but that's my take on it.

A even bigger issue looking through that account is the number of people drug-driving!

No, it's set up to catch people in the 60 zone and not calibrated for the zone outside it

Maybe they’re slowing down to a speed that allows them to stop within the distance they can see to be clear, as required by law, in case there is something unexpected around the bend?

Generally not more than a few weeks, though officially the issuing authority has 107 days to issue a ticket.

If it's a Garda that pings you it can be a longer wait as they may or may not use discretion and let you off but the GoSafe are an automated system, you either are getting a ticket or not so that's why its much quicker, so generally within 2 weeks

can some one answer a question for me how long does it take a go safe fine to arrive and i being reading about a 10% ruel can anymore answer this for me please and tell how exactly it works thanks

If you scroll up on this page you will see both your questions answered, or at least to the extent they can be answered but in short:

A) anywhere from 2 days to just over 3 months

B) there is no 10% rule, the limit is the limit and anything above is taking a chance