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A DRIVER CAUGHT doing 71km/hr over the limit was just one of 322 people speeding yesterday.
Gardaí checked the speeds of 176,521 vehicles on the country’s roads between 7am yesterday and 7am today as part of Operation Slow Down.
They say that the “objective was to reduce the number of speed related collisions, save lives and reduce injuries on our roads”.
While one driver was caught doing 121 km/hr in a 50km/hr zone in Ballynacarrow in Sligo, there were many others well over the speed limit.
Those include people doing:
Aidan Reid of the Garda National Traffic Bureau said gardaí wanted to “thank those drivers who continue to be compliant and drive within the speed limit”. He reiterated the message to all motorists: “drive safely and slow down”.
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Is that not 71km/h over ? ……. Just sayin’
It is but you can’t be expecting proof reading on the Journal.
His laptop has a spellcheck but don’t do maths
68km in a 50? Bring that man straight to the gallows.
Speed vans cause motorists to jam on the brakes, even if they are under the limit. On a personal note, when was the last time there was an accident on the N4 Lucan East or West bound? Yet there is always a gatso. I know of two accident Black Spots close to me, and there is never a speed van. Why? Because not enough traffic there to make it profitable.
I know the Cratloe one. It’s 120 just before it and the drops to 100 without any change in road quality and not enough limit signs to make sure you know. Sorry for individual caught there. Probably had no idea he/she hit the 100 zone.
How come you know? Sure they’re the ones out driving. They know but don’t care.
That’s incorrect, the speed limit changes back at the Shannon Airport exit. Which is a good bit back.
That’s 10kms inside the 100kms zone. If the driver doesn’t know the difference between motorway and dual carriageway road markings
and signage or can’t see the numerous 100km signs maybe they shouldn’t be on the road.
Paul some dual carriageways have 120kmh speeds on them.
Which is why I said “and can’t see the numerous 100km signs”
In my view Paul the signage is not great. I do find from time to time I miss a sign & I’m unsure of the speed limit. In Germany it’s a constant barrage of signs. You cannot but see them. I don’t find that in Ireland. I also feel with the technology now in cars we should at least have an indication on our binnacle. That way there’s no excuses.
If they had an IQ test as part of a driving test I wonder how many would fail?
Did you fail maths in the leaving cert paul haha.
Haha brilliant because you learn basic subtraction in leaving cert..
Careful Darren.Your comment could very well be deleted.
There is nothing worse when you put your heart and soul into a comment only for it to be deleted ha
And they want to reduce the limit to a farcical 30kph in Dublin.Think they should be targeting rural road users instead.
Speed enforcement will never get public support because it is by nature and implementation a crude tool which results in substantial collateral damage, namely the wrong categories of drivers being convicted while serious offenders get off regularly. What makes this all the more galling are the penalty points for three years on so many folk who are largely law abiding except for these rare occassions when they are often ‘trapped’ in a sneaky way which undermines law enforcement and the judiciary.
If the person caught was a TD or a judge or a rugby international we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Garda corruption is still a huge problem.
I once had a supervisor who told of getting a speeding ticket on the way to work. I would have been more supportive of him had it been when he was going away from work.
Anyway he challenged the ticket, on the basis was the radar device calibrated? It had not been and the traffic court judge dismissed the charges and all those who were ticketed that day.
322 xE 80 =E 25760…That’s what its all about and anyone that thinks differently is a fool especially those that say differently (nudge,nudge)
And it cost 100k to collect it.
The selection of the zones, “safety zones” choosen, is problematic and often for dubious reasoning. The only van I spotted yesterday was on a very short stretch of 60km/hr squeezed into a long 80 km/hr…an obvious trap in my books.
Why don’t we have permanent speed cameras like every other EU country?
Because the providers wouldn’t make as much money out of a one off provision.
One in Dublin on a dual carriageway. Yet there’ll be vans all over the city next weekend where no dies.
In for a penny
Is this a PR stunt like all the arrests the Gardai make? The Gardai must be sick carrying out their duty simply to make their superiors appear to doing their jobs.
I see worse offences than speeding everyday on all roads and the gardai nowhere in sight.
With speeders their be no revenue,look at the history the main reason the were introduced was for revenue not safety, safety was use to sell it. Our roads death pay have gone and it is not because we have stopped speeding, the factors are better roads, more motor ways, less Irish people heading down the country on bank holidays, and with ones that do go they travel on better and much safer road than what there once with less congestion.
The media always plaster headline speeding car kills… What is speeding the road into Baldoyle use to be 50 now it 60, If a driver crash before at 58 the be speeding reckless driver etc… Now the be driving safely.
We need an over haul of our speed limited , but they wont they rather us believe speeding is the main cause but it not.
If the told the truth half the people would get back in car ever, our roads death may have gone down but those with life changeling injures is just as bad if not worst.
I was stopped for doing 68kph in a 60 kph zone. I asked the nice Garda could I see for myself the speed on the camera and she refused saying she was not obliged to show me. I told her I wanted to see the date of the last calibration and the again she refused but looked puzzled. I would have thought if I am going to be prosecuted I have the right to verify my speed and that the equipment is working and calibrated.
If I remember right, most of the permanent gatso cameras we had were set on fire.
More BS
There is a bad bend coming from Waterford into Cork over the Youghal bridge crossing the Blackwater.
Someone not in their right mind put a 100kph sign just before the bad bend…
Well they have proof of wreck-less driving on country roads !!!! And they get cheaper insurance !!!! Why ???
Way less than 1%? They’re obviously not very good at hiding in the bushes. They should have hired flashers to hold the speed guns.
I wonder what the lowest speed offender caught was doing speed wise? what speed do you have to be going before your technically prosecuted as there has to be a margin of error as the instruments they are using are not 100% as they have to be calibrated.
133 km/hr on the N3 at Huntstown ? The N3 doesn’t go through Huntstown, and the Huntstown Road speed limit is far less than 100 km/hr
For all the people giving out, suggesting it’s only a money making exercise, what do you suggest as an alternative? No speed limits, with zero enforcement? I can’t see that improving Road safety statistics……
Go to court, tell the judge you are not happy about handing money to an organisation that is rife with corruption allegations, but you will take the points and make the donation to Pieta house or another charity (providing you are guilty of course)
How many tickets were issued for those breaking the 100/120 kph limits & how many were issued for those breaking the 50/60 kph limits….I dare say the split is probably 80% to 20%…like shooting fish in a barrel with the lower limits, this despite the Garda top brass coming out during the week claiming..”speed kills”!!..
Is km/hr the correct abbreviation ? I have always used kmh thinking that was correct.
Km/h is the most commonly used.
I van paid for…199 left
No body speeding in Mayo all out celebrating the Connaught win
If all those caught respond and cough up within the first time limitation that is a grand total of €25760, that’s some money to be putting in to an organisation that’s rife with corruption allegations
Because they get destroyed
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