We have dual carriageways out there with speed limits of 60km when 80km would be fine. Also when the new M3 opened they dropped the speed on second road from 100km to 80km only to push people onto the money road. Where are the cameras… Yes on the old 80km road.

5kph over limit keeping 2 second rule you get 2 penalty points plus fine… Tailgating at limit, which is the no 1 cause of crashes you get no points or fine.

I speed. I WILL get caught. I WILL be p!ssed about it. I WILL bitch about ALL the reasons that its “totally fecking unfair” and “thats a ridiculous fecking limit for that road anyway”.

But, in the end I’ll accept that I WAS speeding and I’m actually quite glad that’s the first time I was caught cos I’ve been lucky for a long time.

Oh, to have Autobahns……….

The 60km/hr speed limit on the old airport to swords road is nothing short of ludicrous. People are always caught there and it’s actually more dangerous looking at the speedometer the whole time trying to keep to the 60km/hr limit.

I’ve got 3 points – 1 of them I deserved, the other 2 were a complete joke!! Even though I have a hands free phone system in my car, a Garda claimed that she saw me with my phone up to my ear. That doesn’t make sense because if I had my phone up to my ear, I wouldn’t have heard anything through the handset as it comes through the radio speakers. But no matter how much I protested and pleaded with her, she wrote a ticket and told me that I could appeal it but risked more points and a higher fine in court. A court is going to believe her over me so no point in appealing – I had to bite my lip and take the medicine which I didn’t deserve. lol

while I agree in theory with the system. I think that hiding behind lamposts and trees to catch someone is not really a fair system. If they are really out for safety then make yourself highly visable and a lot more cars will slow down. Plus make the speed fit the road. A country back road can be 80kmp. A road here with no houses either side 50kmp and a car up your ass. safety? money racket?

Usually the Garda are right, but you can fault them for being a bit too strict at times. Any time I got caught for something I deserved it.

Was caught on the sea front in Clontarf on New Years Eve doing 63/km/hr. The van was parked clocking cars about 200m after the limit drops from a 60 zone to a 50 zone. Sneaky bastards. Felt very hard done by. Drives me nuts thinking about it…

Does anyone know where the money from the fines actually goes? l tried once to find out and gave up after being sent around in circles. I suspect like everyone else that it is just another form of road tax. I passed a van one day that had caught the three cars that passed me out while I was doing bang on 60mph. I pulled over down the road for my lunch and counted the number of cars that passed me and estimated the number that were speeding. In the hour that I was there I figured that that van brought in roughly €6500! The van was parked at the far side of a hill that had a climbing lane on a straight stretch of road. So your speed is up to safely pass the vehicle on the inside lane but as you crest the hill and prepare to slow down the van is there.

penalty points are a great fund raiser, the places they have their cameras are never on the dangerous small roads with the high speed limit but on the double lane new roads with inappropriate speed limits. As for the man with the hands free u shoulda stood up for yourself. You are typical of the majority of people on this island, taking all the shit they throw at you then giving out when its to late.

No offense to those drivers, but there’s no such thing as “caught unfairly”, (and yes I had penalty points before , nabbed on the phone, fair and square)

Well with the placement of some of the go-safe vans and gatso vans it would deem to be unfair some cases have been in court and they have got off,there is a huge thread on boards regarding this.
Also of late ive notice the vans to be out more than usual,i reckon this is tax colllecting rather than been there to slow drivers down

here is the thread by the way enjoy the read

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2056059521

Very proud of myself, I’ve no points at all!

Since speed limit signs are few and far between in this country I tend to drive at the speed that feels right for the road I’m on- hasn’t steered me wrong yet, except for after the new n7 opened and I was pulled up doing 140km in 100km zone- my bad! 100km is a ridiculous limit for that road anyway

Let’s all go back to the pony and gig. Lot more relaxing and no licence needed.

it was the fault of the really old guy who drivo at 40mph for over half and hour which made me overtake him on a meridian so I did NOT deserve the point on my license for that!!!! lol
It was years ago and gone now but I did blame the old guy!!!

I’ve been clocked twice now by the mobile vans.
They are supposed to target dangerous spots where accidents are more likely to happen.
Not in my experience…
They were out of site on long straight stretches of new roads..
Keen to catch people and get their bonus.
Thankfully I have a uk license and can’t collect the points.

There should be a penalty system for slow drivers and Drivers who don’t dip their beams, cars with lights out..and and councils who neglect pot holes.
These factors are contributing more to dangerous conditions on our roads

I don’t think theres anything wrong for Garda to hide behind a ditch or lane-way. People who get caught speeding give out that the gardai were hiding, but the truth is if you see the gardai in front of you doing a speed check, you’ll slow down for that 30 seconds until you pass them and then speed up again as they go out of sight in your rear view mirror. If you are speeding, you deserve to get caught. How you get caught is irrelevant.
A lot of drivers involved in high speed crashes actually ‘don’t’ have penalty points. Either they were never caught or the points were removed after the 3 years. So they drive faster than the guy with 4/6 penalty points and are more likely to be involved on a accident.

No points here thankfully… But there are roads which have no houses or are classed as built up and the limit is 50KPH and guess what, a Garda Speed trap there 3-4 days of the week, but there are still some roads which are twisty and curvy, plenty of blind spots yet the speed limit remains at 80KPH, doesn’t make sense!

I’m sure I drive -no pun intended- when i stick to the speed limit, but I’m not going to take a penalty point for them.

All cars should be fitted with a Speed Limiter im my opinion, which at the very least lets the car stay at the speed as opposed to getting frustrated with people who speed up & slow down, or those who insist on driving in the middle lane of 3 lane roads like the M50, making you either have to go out 2 lanes to pass them or else undertake them.

Those who want to speed, be my guest… I am still surprised to see the amount of people who are on the phone whilst driving, there are enough cheap devices that let you drive and talk hands free!

Conor. Why do they have to crash to face court. You don’t have to crash if driving while drunk ( 80mg per 100 ml) yet you still have to attend court. Text drivers should be treated as criminals as do drink drivers

i know somebody who got points for making a right turn that was illegal between 7am and 10am. Seriously.

i got mine for doing 100 on the navan dual carriageway…heads up limit there is 80!!

If the RSA are so concerned about speed, why have they INCREASED speed limits from 70mph to almost 75mph (120kmh) on motorways? Why do they not tell us that texting while driving is more dangerous than drink driving? Not 1 politician has the balls to stand up and represent the victims of text drivers and make them pay
the same penalty as drink drivers?

If anyone in Ireland can explain the logic of three year period for retaining points in a license, please feel free. I get the impression that the traffic offences are the ‘low hanging fruit’. Maybe more resources for the Anglo investigation would be a better use of police manpower.

i know a little secret in which you will never get caught… “DONT BREAK THE LAW WHEN DRIVING’
driving is a privalige so why ruin it for yourself and others

I’ll give it to you from a professional drivers perspective. I like most truck drivers have accumilated lots of points on my license. 3 speeding offenses were commited on dual carriageways @ night time & were in the order of 10 to 20 kmh over the limit. Twice on the phone one of those times i have no defense the other i answered stopped @ trffic lights. Now i have a relative & she has no points & she truly is the most dangerous driver of them all. I now have no points because im unemployed but when i go back to work i will probably have them again. Its the nature of my job i have to break the law to make money & until that changes i disagree with the points system.

I hope everyone Garda hiding in ditches gets piles and/or Weil’s disease.

Gotta love those points……The roads are deserted now. Cops have less drivers to hit on so the few that are left on the road are taking all the pain. What do points make?………Points make prizes. It makes the cops feel all powerful and keeps them away from the Zero profit crimes such as Murder……No money in murder folks!

I’ve 6 points and proud, although have to be a good boy for a while. all for speeding, 140-150k on motorway each time ah well have to take your medicine. at least I was caught by any real garda not a van!

58km in a 50 zone, 2 points and a fine, fuckin right I felt aggrieved!!
And another point, the price of everything has dropped but it would be politically incorrect to drop these fines.

Turn on Pick Tv now and we’ll all understand that the system is required! Horrific!!!