points on the licence

have you got points on your driving licence? have the new speeding
cameras caught you (excessive speed is the biggest factor in serious crashes)
the new cameras are proving to be a money spinner for the gardai.

I'm still on a clean one......no points ever! a cousin of told me before that all the money goes to the dept. of enviroment or transport.

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Originally Posted by billyjt

I'm still on a clean one......no points ever! a cousin of told me before that all the money goes to the dept. of enviroment or transport.

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I have no points
I wonder is it because I car pool

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s...s/Speeding.jpg

Or because I always pay attention to the speed limit

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dtTiO_cqL9...%2Bcontrol.jpg

I had 4, back to 2 now. I've been caught on camera speeding a couple of more times but never heard any more about it. Poor admin I think.

Any quick way out of them

0 points and I plan on keeping it that way. While on the subject of road safety, has anyone seen/been caught by the new-ish garda vans? After all these months of them being introduced, I have yet to see a single one. And I drive on several "black-spot" roads near everyday.

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Originally Posted by ladiesman217

0 points and I plan on keeping it that way. While on the subject of road safety, has anyone seen/been caught by the new-ish garda vans? After all these months of them being introduced, I have yet to see a single one. And I drive on several "black-spot" roads near everyday.

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Usually have them on the Dock Road
Or on the road out to shannon, by Bunratty are the only ones I have seen

My licence is clean (touch wood) and I try to drive as safe as possible. Yeah, I'm a bloody do-gooder, I know :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIp724nF_Pg

No points as yet and not looking for any either. :)

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Originally Posted by Doozer

Usually have them on the Dock Road
Or on the road out to shannon, by Bunratty are the only ones I have seen

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They must be scared of me, that's why they're hiding whenever I'm out and about *evil laugh*

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Originally Posted by samlad

My licence is clean (touch wood) and I try to drive as safe as possible. Yeah, I'm a bloody do-gooder, I know :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIp724nF_Pg

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Dude you can barely see over the steering wheel! :lmao:

well let them not speed then, it kills, pretty obvious, that why the goverment brought them in to stop people from speedin and killin people

just to let you know 6 months to come out

those Gatso vans are not out for safety they are just collecting more money for the government i see them all the time on the roads and i have never been caught slow down guys and starve the money making scam that it is

it would fit the government better to fix the dangerous pothholes and have better road signs those gatso vans are always on good roads where you can do 80 km and they have it set for 50km where they know the will get you then you see small country roads with 80km where it should be 50 what a joke :D

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Originally Posted by Dirty Harry

it would fit the government better to fix the dangerous pothholes and have better road signs those gatso vans are always on good roads where you can do 80 km and they have it set for 50km where they know the will get you then you see small country roads with 80km where it should be 50 what a joke :D

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Christ don't get me started... My own road is a lethal death trap (tiny country road, barely fit 2 cars at same time) and the speed limit is 80!!! It's a f*cking miracle no one has been killed on it. And do the larger vehicles slow down for oncoming traffic? No course not. Giant arctic lorries rocketing down a road just wider than a passage at 80km without any consideration for what's in front of them. The amount of times I've nearly had to drive into the whole ditch just to avoid being killed is ridiculous.

on roads that previously had a sign saying 30, they now have a sign
saying 50. most people know this is to be in line with Europe mph/kph,
but what if you're a thick cunt with a heavy right foot?

Anyone speeding through a town or village deserves the fine and the points. But 120 kph is a bit slow on the motorway as is 100 on good roads. Speed dosen't kill, stupity does the autobann in germany has no speed limit and is statistically one of the safest roads in europe. I have only 2 points drive very responsible, but I do speed every time I get in the car and always on my bike. I always drive within my means and allow for road conditions, haven't had a crash since I was 18 and that was a good while ago.

I have 8 points on my licence four to come of next month I will have to try and behave myself .

i hold a clean licence for over 20 years. i see people really motoring
in their cars (often women with kids too). i think people want to get things done,
make money, make progress. they foolishly translate this into their driving style-
as though driving faster will speed them up on 'the road' to success.

What about the calls from a Kerry coroner for speed limiters to be brought in for people under 25? As someone who falls under that category, I personally don't think it'll solve anything. I consider myself a very safe driver for my age. It is not only young people who drive recklessly. People of all ages do. You always meet idiotic drivers every day and everywhere. Only a short few of these fall under 25 in my experience. I've had near misses with men and women alike well over their 40's and 50's who were 100% at fault. And sometimes on major single lane roads, such as the N20 from Limerick to Cork, I've been forced to break the speed limit of 100km in order to keep myself and others from harms way due to the outrageous driving of others.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...295545381.html

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Originally Posted by Fitzy

I have 8 points on my licence four to come of next month I will have to try and behave myself .

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Originally Posted by dark-knight

Get your self one of these. http://www.speedcameradefence.com/sh...p?productID=39

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Hmm... Honestly D-K I'd rather spend the mullahs on a nice time with one of the gorgeous ladies here :D

if we are to go by statistics and common sense, speed, especially
in built up areas is the killer. a guy that speeds past a school gets points
and a farmer who had a pint for lunch is disqualified? what about being
tired whilst driving-isn't that like having a few pints or worse.

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Originally Posted by warmcome

if we are to go by statistics and common sense, speed, especially
in built up areas is the killer. a guy that speeds past a school gets points
and a farmer who had a pint for lunch is disqualified? what about being
tired whilst driving-isn't that like having a few pints or worse.

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Indeed it is. Fatigue is as lethal as drink while driving. If memory serves me correct, fatigue has you in a state roughly the same as to someone around the drink-drive limit.

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Originally Posted by millermiller1972

well let them not speed then, it kills, pretty obvious, that why the goverment brought them in to stop people from speedin and killin people

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for sure speed is a contributing factor but not the totally the cause of road accidents there a lot of other contributing factors, the standard of driver training for one which is a joke in this country the money these vans cost would have been better spent addressing this issue.

the thing about speed is it decreases your time left to react.
if you're driving at 30 mph and something or someone emerges into the road
you have lets say 4 seconds to react. a person doing 50mph, hopes to save
the day in 2 seconds? good luck with that!

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Originally Posted by warmcome

the thing about speed is it decreases your time left to react.
if you're driving at 30 mph and something or someone emerges into the road
you have lets say 4 seconds to react. a person doing 50mph, hopes to save
the day in 2 seconds? good luck with that!

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Yep that's about it the faster you go the less time you get to react and the further it will take you to stop. That being said lack of observation or bad consecration are just as bad, and most people on the roads only look no further than the end of the bonnet and this combined with speed and a lack of observation is lethal.

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Originally Posted by lad252

Any quick way out of them

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By a sportsbike, they have no front numberplate so the roadside cameras can't get you. The only downside is that all the jap bikes are limited to (an indicated) 186mph :(

:lmao:

But seriously, no. Those radar jammers mess up handheld cameras and they will pull you over and take you to court for having one. Just watch your speed in the obvious places and you'll be fine.

I have two and i won't be getting anymore...learned my lesson the hard way.The garda vans are a con.I have come across severalin the last cpl of months in areas where there have been no accidents whatsoever so for them to say that they are in accident blackspots is utter bollocks.

just a thought...could ye all drive withit the law?... no problems then

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Originally Posted by warmcome

have you got points on your driving licence? have the new speeding
cameras caught you (excessive speed is the biggest factor in serious crashes)
the new cameras are proving to be a money spinner for the gardai.

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No points at the present, thank goodness. Break the speed limit all the time on the Quays. Which isn't hard given that it's 30km/h!! So I suspect I may get some points one of these days.

I used to have four points. Picked them up two a piece at the same spot - which was so annoying (under the fly over on the way to Lucan).

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Originally Posted by benin

just a thought...could ye all drive withit the law?... no problems then

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I do thank you very much :p

Anyway I ain't listening to a cat about driving cos this is what happens when a cat drives:

http://icanhascheezburger.files.word...t-hits-dog.jpg

Poor dog :(

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Originally Posted by Morpheus

No points at the present, thank goodness. Break the speed limit all the time on the Quays. Which isn't hard given that it's 30km/h!! So I suspect I may get some points one of these days.

I used to have four points. Picked them up two a piece at the same spot - which was so annoying (under the fly over on the way to Lucan).

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It's a poxy speed limit just slow down at Dublin city council offices the van is always there it's the only place on the quays I have ever seen it .

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Originally Posted by aml

I have two and i won't be getting anymore...learned my lesson the hard way.The garda vans are a con.I have come across severalin the last cpl of months in areas where there have been no accidents whatsoever so for them to say that they are in accident blackspots is utter bollocks.

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A con, surely not ;)

http://www.politics.ie/transport/141...ctra-labs.html