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Garda Traffic on Twitter 2

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  • #32
    Vex Willems
    Registered Users Posts: 503 ✭✭✭Vex Willems


    fancy pigeon wrote: »
    Quick one: isn't the alcohol limit for a professional driver much lower than a normal driver?

    Not just professional drivers, applies to all drivers of commercial vehicles, i.e. vans, 4x4s


  • #33
    Mr Snow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,660 ✭✭✭Mr Snow


    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/872405757416833024


  • #34
    markc1184
    Registered Users Posts: 3,075 ✭✭✭markc1184


    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/875722471537860608

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/875960098450964480


  • #35
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Anyone ever notice it seems to be nearly always a Passat or vw polo seized??.

    Love to see all this but there should be way more.


  • #36
    Ipse dixit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭Ipse dixit


    KC161 wrote: »
    Yeah,

    The legal limits for professional, learner and novice drivers are:

    20 milligrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood (0.02)
    27 milligrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of urine or
    9 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath

    Apparently there is some legality as to why they can't make it zero, but the penalties need to be stiffened up.

    Any driver convicted of drink driving should be banned from driving for life professionally.

    They can't make it zero becuase we don't all process alcohol at the same rate. Similarly with the drug tests you'll have people failing who are in breach of the legislation but wouldn't necessarily be impaired while driving.

    I'm not sure why they don't set a zero tolerance level and carry out a field sobriety test but that would just be common sense.

    It's easier to set an arbitrary limit and enforce that as opposed to actually catching people that are impaired.


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  • #37
    tayto lover
    Registered Users Posts: 51,367 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Loads driving without insurance.
    There seems to be ever increasing numbers and I wonder if they just can't afford it anymore and are faced with difficult choices rather than chancing their arm.


  • #38
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    tayto lover wrote: »
    Loads driving without insurance.
    There seems to be ever increasing numbers and I wonder if they just can't afford it anymore and are faced with difficult choices rather than chancing their arm.

    If you can't afford you do without.

    Its quite simple really.

    I want a boat but can't afford one.

    Plenty of other ways of getting around if times are hard.


  • #39
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #40
    markc1184
    Registered Users Posts: 3,075 ✭✭✭markc1184


    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/876022334423015426

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/876028526851481600


  • #41
    flazio
    Registered Users Posts: 12,779 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    M2, can't say they weren't warned. That provisional was just insanity altogether.


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  • #42
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #43
    bear1
    Registered Users Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    The luck of it that the police were on the slip road.
    the carnage that could have ensued...
    Off the road forever I hope.


  • #44
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    bear1 wrote: »
    The luck of it that the police were on the slip road.
    the carnage that could have ensued...
    Off the road forever I hope.

    Its less of an offence then speeding or using a phone.

    Ridiculous to be honest.

    If you are stupid enough to do this you should at minimum have to do a driver awareness course paid by ones self of course.


  • #45
    boardsuser1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    Jim McDaid again?

    A former government minister driving a clapped out polo, I love it :pac:


  • #46
    DaveyDave
    Registered Users Posts: 6,179 ✭✭✭DaveyDave


    bear1 wrote: »
    The luck of it that the police were on the slip road.
    the carnage that could have ensued...
    Off the road forever I hope.

    They probably wouldn't have stopped either​. People stupid enough to manage this aren't usually capable of getting out of it or are oblivious to any wrongdoing.

    Prime example of some people who just shouldn't be on the road. That should carry a 6 month ban or something. Driving isn't for everyone but everyone feels entitled to drive even when they can't...


  • #47
    Patser
    Registered Users Posts: 7,855 ✭✭✭Patser


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Anyone ever notice it seems to be nearly always a Passat or vw polo seized??.

    Love to see all this but there should be way more.

    What if it's the same 2 people all the time.....

    ms12di.jpg


  • #48
    bear1
    Registered Users Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Just saw a video of an oap who was caught by cctv heading onto a motorway around Genova and then turning right into oncoming traffic and 2 cars smacked into him.
    No deaths but I just can't understand what must go through their minds.
    In Italy there are signs screaming wrong way if you enter.


  • #49
    Mr Snow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,660 ✭✭✭Mr Snow


    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/876116869631160321


  • #50
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Someone was doing some donuts.

    Great machine for it.


  • #51
    Toyotafanboi
    Registered Users Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    UK spec AE86, deserves to be arrested for that alone :pac:


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  • #52
    boardsuser1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    Toyotafanboi wrote: »
    UK spec AE86, deserves to be arrested for that alone :pac:

    Met a guy who imported one of these from Japan in 2015 a while back, it cost him €16000 including VRT.

    Serious money for a car that is only appreciating in value.


  • #53
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users Posts: 5,644 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    Ipse dixit wrote: »
    I'm not sure why they don't set a zero tolerance level and carry out a field sobriety test but that would just be common sense.

    It's easier to set an arbitrary limit and enforce that as opposed to actually catching people that are impaired.

    I don't know the alphabet backwards. Have you ever had a stiff left leg after a long motorway drive? I wouldn't fancy trying to walk along a line then.


  • #54
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users Posts: 5,644 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    KC161 wrote: »
    A former government minister driving a clapped out polo, I love it :pac:

    Not on their pensions...


  • #55
    Mr Snow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,660 ✭✭✭Mr Snow


    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/876380999432765441


  • #56
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 80,988 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    NCT and tax out 3 years...

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/876417646199263238


  • #57
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 80,988 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Looks like someone had too a little much fun at the rally in Donegal, a UK car by the looks of no discs on display...

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/876418661044682752


  • #58
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,639 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    Slightly related to this topic.

    Yesterday just before 1, i was driving towards town and there was a speedvan (not a garda) in the n11 southbound lane at stillorgan, a guy pulls up in a van, parks in front of it and then proceeds to stand at the edge of the footpath in a high viz waving his arms to alert on coming vehicles. However from the way he positioned his van it looked like he was blocking any visibility of the road


  • #59
    Mr Snow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,660 ✭✭✭Mr Snow


    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/876466292076707843


  • #60
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


    This post has been deleted.


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  • #61
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    Kerching! That is an awful amount of money there.

    I see approx 30...

    Cha ching is right.

    Someone will be getting a can of coke tonight.


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