Garda Speeding Tickets

[IrishPhoenix]

An email I got from a colleague today:

Just a heads up thought you might travel these routes listed below!!!

The Gardai are starting up a 30 day speeding ticket rally. From what I hear, every Garda assigned to this has to hand out 1 ticket every 20 minutes. They will be focusing in around this area so watch out.

I was doing a broadband wireless install last week for a Garda from the Traffic Corps. While I was there, he told me that starting Saturday 1st July, they will launch a 30 day speeding ticket frenzy. The state estimates that over e250,000 will be generated in speeding tickets. 100,000 will go to pay Garda over time. There will 50 Gardai on duty at all times patrolling on the following:

M7/N7 from Naas to Portlaoise

N4 to Mullingar from Dublin

N6 to Athlone

N81 to Baltinglass

N11 to Wexford

M50

Dublin - Drogheda


Their will be additional Gardai assigned to 'flying squads' - mobile units to patrol all other routes in Dublin, Wicklow, Kildare, Meath, Laois, Westmeath, Offaly, Louth and Kilkenny

I'm warning everyone now that 5 kmph above the limit can justify a ticket and every Garda is supposed to pull a car over and write a ticket every 20 minutes. They have issued brand new unmarked cars. If you must take one of these main routes, or surrounding roads beware. It's up to you how fast you go. I was told Today FM confirmed all of this(off the record). So be safe and don't forget speeding tickets are on you. You've been warned.

[kevinod]

See on the news yesterday they were saying that probably more than half the pics taken by speeding cameras are useless, if they can't clearly see the driver, its no good and you can just say it wasn't you.

A pity they're targetting the motorways/dual carriageways, probably the safest spots around!

[CJ]

I got this 'spam' as well, I'm not sure I believe it to be honest....

CJ

[kevinod]

... or just don't speed!

[CJ]

I got one a few weeks ago and it has already saved me twice (paid for itself)

Gfalls, do you know if you were being hit with a fixed or mobile camera? (radar or laser) in both instances?

CJ

[Myfeckin FTO]

False alarm - this is a spoof!

[Muad_dib77]

False alarm - this is a spoof!

Even so they're definately out in force these days - Iwas stopped 3 times the other day - tax & insurance checked every time...

Bizarrely enough I was only asked to go "produce" once.. Insurance disc was 4 days out... COME ON ..IT'S IN THE FLAMIN' POST! Who would drive a 04 with no insurance anyway??

I see them almost every morning on the n3, cathing out naughty guys on the hard shoulder..
On the m50 they're lurking in the bushes - if it so hapens that traffic is flowing they're waving their hairdriers in the wind..otherwise theyer pouncing on bangers & nutters...

Did anybody hear that they're going to introduce pay & display on the m50 (hehe)...

[kevinod]

I've wondered about the tax and insurance checks tbh, I've been stopped at a check in my brothers old ZX (handy for transporting band gear!) with a well out of date (I'm talking a year if not 2) insurance disk on the window and they said grand, drive on! The garda did shine his light at the window at the disks and all.

[roykeane]

As far as i know you are required to have your insurance certificate with you along with the disc and failing that you get the 'producer'. In relation to the tickets and getting points. I should have 4 pts, but managed to get away with one, (overtaking BMW in a Carisma doing 78mph) because the garda did not show me the clock and secondly doing 105mph between cahir and mitchelstown @ 06.45am but for some reason I never heard zip about this one. I am not offering this as an idle boast and i am in no way gloating. it was stupid. But having said that, had I offered my license to have the points on it I would have been completely stupid. i think the more driving you do the more you realise that speed is not the measure of a driver. rather worryingly, i am seeing more women drivers speeding by me and this was equally true of when i was in the uk recently. I am not grinding any axes here just offering an opinion