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Speed guns - Will I get points?

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  • 09-04-2007 9:17pm
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    junii
    Closed Accounts Posts: 600 ✭✭✭


    I was overtaking someone there the last day and a cop got me with a speed gun. I was a good bit over the limit to be honest. I was thinking that id be getting a letter in the post saying I got two points or something but I was talking to a fella on saturday night and he reckons that they have to go after you straight away with the gun; that they have no record of it and that its just the cameras rather than guns that issue the points this way.

    Is there any truth in what he was saying?


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    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users Posts: 28,861 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Depends. Ive seen people here saying that some of the guns can record too. How fast were you going and what was the limit?


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    Bradidup
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Bradidup


    Nope, several years ago I was done on the N7 between the M50 roundabout and Newlands cross junction by a cop with a speed gun, it was a 40mph zone, didn’t even know about it until I got a letter in the post. The points don’t kick in until a few months after the offence. As far as I know all guns record now after there was a test case a few years ago over the accuracy of speeding and photo evidence. I believe you can also demand a photo of the offence. You can be lucky sometimes and not hear from them.


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    DeBeere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 334 ✭✭DeBeere


    From what I have heard; if it was mounted on a tripod you could get points because those speed guns have cameras and record the speed.
    and
    if it was handheld they need to pull you over.

    Could be wrong though!


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    crosstownk
    Registered Users Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    DeBeere wrote:
    if it was handheld they need to pull you over.

    AFAIK, this is the case. But you never know. The only way to be sure is to watch out for the brown envelope over the next few weeks...................
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    stratos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭stratos


    If its on a tripod and they don't stop you your fine (excuse the pun). only the fixed and mobile vehicle mounted ones take pictures.


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    junii
    Closed Accounts Posts: 600 ✭✭✭junii


    stratos wrote:
    If its on a tripod and they don't stop you your fine (excuse the pun). only the fixed and mobile vehicle mounted ones take pictures.

    Well this guy was just pointing it out of the window in a unmarked.


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    stratos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭stratos


    Yea then you should be ok.


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    Our man in Havana
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    crosstownk wrote:
    AFAIK, this is the case. But you never know. The only way to be sure is to watch out for the brown envelope over the next few weeks...................
    The envelope is actaully white with a window in it. Pretty non descript tbh.


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