Speeding Q&A superthread

Holy fúck.. I saw a ticket from a gosafe today for 7km/h over.

That's less than 4½mph over

FYI

Whatever it was it was 7km/h less than what the person was travelling 😂

I agree, the speed limit where the fine was recieved would have an impact how the speed was perceived.

7km in a 50 is significantly higher relatively than 7km in a 120.

And with 'most' speedos overreading it's likely the vehicle involved was indicating a higher speed then 7km over, so driver couldn't complain about not knowing or realising.

Gardai have 107 days to issue a ticket, so unfortunately your only half way through the permissable time limit.

With the over estimation of car speedos it's not going to be just a few km/h though, its generally a conscious decision to break the limit.

Detection of 60 in a 50 zone is probably a speedo reading of mid 60's if not 70 km/h.

Are you sure they didn't ask you to produce insurance certificate too? It is common for both to be requested even if you only don't have one or the other.

Even if it had a valid disc the certificate has more details as to who is insured and if there are any named drivers and such which is why it's demanded and not just a valid disc.

That's usually the case, probably ticked that when creating the ticket that both licence and insurance were to be produced and the system automatically checks them and if there is nothing on Pulse to say it was produced an automatic summons is issued for those two offences.

The Garda who you produced the details to at the station wouldn't have known what you were asked to produce other than what you told them (assuming it wasn't the same Garda who stopped you) and would have just inputed the driver's licence and nothing else as per your directions.

Usually a good idea to contact the station and get a hold of Garda involved to see if it can be rectified, worst case scenario is you attend court on day in question with your insurance certificate and it gets struck out.

I've seen it happen lots of times where someone has been asked to produce both but only think the licence is needed as they had a disc displayed at the time and end up in a similar situation.

The vans cost the State about €10 million a year to operate, so they are a considerable drain on the State. Or to look at it another way, that's two schools not getting built each year because we can't trust drivers to obey speed limits.

Be grateful for what we've got lads as the next thing will be fixed cameras operating 24/7.

Give me the guards and the go safe vans any day.

Folks do Gardai with a speed gun stop you for your details if you are speeding or can you get done without being stopped? Thanks

They technically now don't need to stop you (if they caught you with one of the new guns) but from looking at their Twitter anyway or even just watching them on the motorways, they seem to still be chasing people down and stopping them.

There are only a few locations with static/average speed cameras in the country.

The vast majority of speeding is detected via uniform Gardai or speed vans

There is an average speed camera in testing on the M7 between Nenagh and Birdhill, don't know of others

GoSafe vans will be at designated locations https://www.garda.ie/en/roads-policing/safety-camera-locations/ Garda speedchecks can be anywhere, motorways, national roads, regional roads, in urban areas using a range of speed cameras - tripod mounted, hand held or in vehicle (marked and unmarked) with speed detection and ANPR. They can anywhere they have a view of a road. Modern speed detection technology can measure a car's speed at over 1000m if it has a clear line of sight.

The tunnel in cork has had anpr for years, keeps a record of everything that passed thru. Also measures the speed of every car, bit it's not used for issueing tickets.

Didnt know that.

As the Garda told you, you'll get a FCN for speeding and the 3 points on your license.

The requirements for dangerous driving vary in a case by case basis and take multple factors into consideration, there is no hard and fast rule but 20km over is not it.

It will have no effect on other license categories and assuming you don't have previous points already it likely won't even effect your insurance.