What new penalty point offence would you create if you could?

Crock Rock

If you were given the power to create a new penalty point offence (not increase or expunge one), what would you do?

I'm torn between two things.
I don't know whether to make lane hogging a penalty point offence or abuse of the bus lane.


I think I'd go for bus lane misuse though.

Effects

6 points for anyone that puts cushions in the back seat or on their parcel tray.

maddness

Scrolling through a smart phone screen while driving. You might say it already is an offense but it couldn’t possibly be...

bazz26

Jesus, OP you sound like your some craic with all these type threads. Slow day on the internet?

Crock Rock

Effects wrote: »

6 points for anyone that puts cushions in the back seat or on their parcel tray.

Why the fuck would anyone put them in the pacel tray?? Do people do that??

Crock Rock

maddness wrote: »

Scrolling through a smart phone screen while driving. You might say it already is an offense but it couldn’t possibly be...

I counted 20 something cars (maybe even 30) where there was a bright light coming from other cars when I was driving after nightfall recently. I stopped counting after 20. It was only a 20 km journey (all non-motorway).


Car needs to be crushed with th edriver inside.

Jimbob1977

1. Middle lane driving

2. German italics number plates

3. Driving around the roundabout (3 o'clock exit) in the left hand lane.

CorkMan_

Middle Lane hogging. Definitely.

Crock Rock

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

1. Middle lane driving

This boils my piss. It's usually women who refuse to move over. From my experience men tend to move when flashed and or beeped but give you obscene jestures after doing so.

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

2. German italics number plates

This. I see some cars where the IRL is replaced by D and they have two cirlce things on the plate that you'r ordinarily see on German cars. I don't know what it is though.

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

3. Driving around the roundabout (3 o'clock exit) in the left hand lane.

I believe you car be done for dangerous or careless driving or driving without due care and attention if a Garda catches you doing it and rightly so.

Midnight_EG

5 points for general stupidity

whomitconcerns

Throwing someone the finger when you nearly cause an accident and they beep at you...

As the charming young lady did today
to me when she tried to pull into my lane out of the blue without indicating, at 70mph on the motorway..

Crock Rock

Drivers who slow down, come to a complete stop and then indicate just as they are making the turn.

freddieot

Driving without any lights in the fog or rain, usually in a charcoal grey car to blend in well with the road. (6 points)

Doing 60 in a 100 zone on a twisty back road and holding up dozens of cars (like a guy I met today) (1 point)


Sticker Man - Baby on Board and other 'safety' Notices (that block part of the view from the rear window. (1 point)

Jimbob1977

Crock Rock wrote: »

I believe you car be done for dangerous or careless driving or driving without due care and attention if a Garda catches you doing it and rightly so.

In Spain, that is the legal way to navigate a roundabout!!

I had to Google it when I was in Tenerife. Couldn't figure out why there was nobody using the left lane of the roundabout.

Let's say they want to take the third exit (9 o'clock in Spain).

o They enter a roundabout in the right hand lane.

o They pass the 3 o'clock exit in the right lane.

o They pass the 12 o'clock exit still in the right hand lane.

o They make their exit at 9 o'clock from the right hand lane.

Interestingly, Portugal and France adopted our style.

Effects

Crock Rock wrote: »

Why the fuck would anyone put them in the pacel tray?? Do people do that??

Makes it easier for other people to see how fancy their car is. Generally a Nisan Micra or Tiida.

ednwireland

how about enforce the ones that are there

jaxxx

ednwireland wrote: »

how about enforce the ones that are there

I very much doubt that word is in the dictionary of An Garda Siochana.

Crock Rock

jaxxx wrote: »

I very much doubt that word is in the dictionary of An Garda Siochana.

When you see Gardaí barrelling up the bus lane above the speed limit and going through red lights and stop signs and passing cyclists with cm to spare (when not in persuite) you can be sure they don't give a damn about road safety and only about doing other people.

The high horse brigade

Drivers who hog the white line and refuse to overtake the arctic lorry that has pulled into the hard shoulder on a straight to let them pass

Crock Rock

Crock Rock wrote: »

Drivers who slow down, come to a complete stop and then indicate just as they are making the turn.

Drivers approaching a roundabout from your right, so you stop to allow them continue ahead of you. As they enter the roundabout, on comes the indicator and they exit at your point of entry, meaning you could have gone if they'd indicated earlier.

Podge_irl

freddieot wrote: »

Doing 60 in a 100 zone on a twisty back road and holding up dozens of cars (like a guy I met today) (1 point)

Who in their right mind drives at 100kph on a twisty back road!?

Crock Rock

Podge_irl wrote: »

Who in their right mind drives at 100kph on a twisty back road!?

We have a chronic and toxic speed culture on our roads.

Whocare

5 points from masturbation while driving. As truck driver (sitting high up) see a lad doing the act in heavy traffic today

Crock Rock

Whocare wrote: »

5 points from masturbation while driving. As truck driver (sitting high up) see a lad doing the act in heavy traffic today

Really??? Jesus :P



Have you seen anything else interesting up there?


Random quesion, have you ever encountered anyone retarted enough to brake check you in your lorry?

freddieot

Podge_irl wrote: »

Who in their right mind drives at 100kph on a twisty back road!?

Read the post again - 100 Zone !?!


It people driving at just over half the speed limit on any road that are crazy..

XsApollo

Road licenses for cyclists and a penalty point system for them.

Also lane hogging is a must.

TCM

Jimbob1977 wrote:

3. Driving around the roundabout (3 o'clock exit) in the left hand lane.

Happens at Dublin airport very frequently.

Crock Rock

freddieot wrote: »

Read the post again - 100 Zone !?!


It people driving at just over half the speed limit on any road that are crazy..

A lot of speed limits are in appropriate.


It's a limit not a target.


You clearly said windy back road.

Whocare

Crock Rock wrote: »

Really??? Jesus :P



Have you seen anything else interesting up there?


Random quesion, have you ever encountered anyone retarted enough to brake check you in your lorry?

I did search YouTube cash for crash m50 happen few years ago. Don't know how to do a link

flazio

Driving while holding a 99 ice-cream.

freddieot

It's a limit not a target. (Agree absolutely but 50 \ 60 in a 100 is acting the maggot... An artic actually overtook this guy...


You clearly said windy back road.[/QUOTE]. I'll give you that one but I'm from Dublin, so twisty back road to me is any road other than a motorway \ dual Carriageway

Cork Trucker

Indication is a big one, 5 points for that.

There are other existing ones where points need to be increased.

Another i would bring in would be a mandatory S.41 if caught on the phone with a minimum charge of €500 to release the vehicle,naturally you'll always find people who will be disobliging regardless but this is a minority in society thankfully.

Cork Trucker

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Drivers who hog the white line and refuse to overtake the arctic lorry that has pulled into the hard shoulder on a straight to let them pass

If i don't have high blood pressure from this now then i never will.

Duckjob

XsApollo wrote: »

Road licenses for cyclists and a penalty point system for them.

No benefit only to satisfy bitter minds.

There's a chronic lack of enforcement on the road and behaviour is equally appalling across all road groups. Just enforce the existing rules across the board.

micar

Using fog lights when there's no fog.

Yer Da sells Avon

Three points for misuse of car horn (i.e. to berate another driver). Six if you accelerated towards their mistake for added drama. Almost always male drivers who do this.
Two points for overtaking a bus as it tries to emerge from a bus stop.
Automatic driving ban for using a phone while driving (treat it like drink-driving, essentially).
Six points for driving too close to a cyclist
Three points for driving with DRLs and no rear lights at night. Alas, the guards themselves are major offenders.

micar

XsApollo wrote: »

Road licenses for cyclists and a penalty point system for them..

Never going to happen.

People need to be encouraged to cycle not discouraged.

More people commuting to work by bike means less vehicles, less congestion and ultimately reduced journey times....win win for all.

Anyone living within 10km of work should be cycling where possible .......of course there will be exceptions

80% of cyclist drive ....have a driving licence, pay motor tax and insurance.

In the last 15/16 years, no cyclist has been responsible for a death of another person on Irish roads.

AulWan

12 points for tail-gating.

Speed limits are limits, not goals.

Hal3000

5 points for throwing rubbish out the window of a vehicle.

AulWan

12 points for having an un-restrained dog in the car.

Especially if you let it hang out the window or lie on the parcel shelf.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Points for people on the motorway that can’t make their mind up whether they want to travel 100kp/h or 140kp/h. At this stage most cars have cruise control. Just set it. Overtaking the same car on the motorway over and over again is frustrating. I generally set the cruise to 115kp/h and sit in the left lane.

bazz26

antix80

4 penalty points to idiots who see a red light in the distance and begin slowing down to a pathetic crawl to save their brake pads, with no regard to motorists behind them who want to turn before the red light - either at a junction before the light, or into a car park etc.

Even when there's no junction, it's annoying being forced to crawl behind someone driving like this.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

micar wrote: »

In the last 15/16 years, no cyclist has been responsible for a death of another person on Irish roads.

Yeah but how many heads have they melted. I hate the Lycra brigade. Hate.

antix80

freddieot wrote: »

Doing 60 in a 100 zone on a twisty back road and holding up dozens of cars (like a guy I met today) (1 point)

Driving at a crawl around bends on country roads, and at the first chance someone has to overtake, accelerates to 100kph. So rude and it happens the whole time. 12 points and a public flogging.

XsApollo

Duckjob wrote: »

No benefit only to satisfy bitter minds.

There's a chronic lack of enforcement on the road and behaviour is equally appalling across all road groups. Just enforce the existing rules across the board.

Excuse me?

XsApollo

micar wrote: »

Never going to happen.

People need to be encouraged to cycle not discouraged.

More people commuting to work by bike means less vehicles, less congestion and ultimately reduced journey times....win win for all.

Anyone living within 10km of work should be cycling where possible .......of course there will be exceptions

80% of cyclist drive ....have a driving licence, pay motor tax and insurance.

In the last 15/16 years, no cyclist has been responsible for a death of another person on Irish roads.

What happens when everybody is on bikes?
Will we need rules then?

donvito99

XsApollo wrote: »

What happens when everybody is on bikes?
Will we need rules then?

Go to Holland. They're all on bikes. Throughput of people is enormous on tiny little streets. No noise. No helmets. No hi viz. Rains just as much as here.

If u took every bollocks clogging the quays in his car out of it tomorrow and hurled him onto a bike, there would be no need for traffic lights, yellow boxes, double yellows, turning lanes..... there would hundreds going through O'Connell bridge in all directions seamlessly. The roads would be in some condition also.

But of course that will never happen here, because you need a Qashqai to live your life in this country.

Duckjob

Hunky Monster wrote: »

Yeah but how many heads have they melted. I hate the Lycra brigade. Hate.

Irrational hatred for a random group of people you don't know? Maybe get your mental health checked out., sounds like there may be a few issues there.

Also, the preoccupation with gazing at fit men's arses and crotches while driving? Maybe channel that energy into being a better more concentrated driver.

Atlantic Dawn

L plates on upside down, 48 points, if you can't manage to put the sticker on the right way around you have no business on the road for a long long time.

Roanmore

Throwing cigarettes out of the car window, especially in slow moving traffic.