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[Article] Speeders escape full points penalty

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  • 02-10-2003 2:58pm
    #1
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,387 ✭✭✭✭


    Grrr!

    http://home.eircom.net/content/unison/national/1597024?view=Eircomnet
    Speeders escape full points penalty
    From:The Irish Independent
    Thursday, 2nd October, 2003
    Tim Healy

    SPEEDING motorists who pay their fines late are still able to get away with just two penalty points on their licences rather than four.

    Until now, people who failed to pay the on-the-spot fine and went to court to contest their cases were given four rather than two points, plus a heavier fine.

    But yesterday in Dublin District Court, which saw its third batch of cases since the new system was brought in, two motorists who pleaded guilty to speeding and agreed to pay their original fines were told they would only get two points on their licences.

    They were among more than 70 summonsed to appear for speeding in autumn of last year.

    The two male motorists who pleaded guilty were given adjournments so that they could pay the original fines and were told if they did so their cases would be struck out on the next date.

    Gardai supplied them with notes to bring to the fixed penalty fines office and Judge Timothy Lucey said if they paid the fine they would just have to take two points on their licences.

    While the issuing of points was a matter for gardai and not the courts, who were only concerned with the fines, gardai had agreed to this course of action.

    Judge Lucey struck out around half of the cases because some of the gardai were not available but mostly because they had paid the fines, albeit late. The fine goes up from €80 to €120 if the offender fails to pay within 28 days.

    In all other cases, fines of €240 were imposed on speeders, all of whom failed to appear in court.

    They were mostly clocked on a section of the Lucan Bypass where the limit is 50mph and all were doing just over 60mph.


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    Da Man
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    I'm sorry? Grrr because people get stopped for doing 60 in a 50 zone, which is obviously nothing but a money racket, or grrr because you got a fine and didn't pay it on time and got 4 points and you resent that the system now has some sense built into it?


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    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,387 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Grrr, because the system isn't working properly and people will again think they can get away with things. The recent seat belt campaign more than halved the number of deaths (5 year average for September - 41) to 16. Stuff like this will just make people complacent and get them or others killed and we'll pay the cost.


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