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GARDAÍ IN NAAS have fined a learner driver caught travelling at 139kph in a 100kph zone.
The driver was an unaccompanied learner-permit holder with no L-plates displayed, Gardaí said. The vehicle was seized and a fixed-charge penalty notice was issued.
The South Roads Policing unit of the Dublin Metropolitan Region also stopped a driver yesterday afternoon after detecting the car travelling at 147kph in a 100kph zone.
Gardaí from this unit stopped another driver doing 143kph in a 100kph zone. A fixed-charge penalty notice was issued.
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Is this really considered news? Ground breaking journalism uncovering the real stories…
@Eoin Jackson: obviously a slow news day.
@Eoin Jackson: it’s relevant as it’s creating awareness you may be a parent with a son/daughter on N plates you might read this story to them and not let them out unaccompanied
@Eoin Jackson: Unaccompanied learner driver travelling at over 33% above the speed limit………crash……casualites or property damage……… This might also be news to any pedestrian or other car driver on this fool’s route today.
N plate driver is quite entitled to be out unaccompanied as they have passed their driving test!!
@Eoin Jackson: far more news worthy than a lot of stuff on The Journal
@Tony Donoghue: i must say i am looking forward to the follow up article on parking fines issues. Oh and i also saw a motorist run a red light a couple of days ago, that one should be a cracking read, really looking forward to that article…
@David A. Murray: i agree had the driver crashed and there been a loss of life or damage to property it would certainly be news. However, been stopped and fined by the gardai hardly constitutes news in anyones eyes… oh and also i am fairly confident the person in question is still not out there zooming up and down that road at the time the article is written so i am curious as to why it would be news to people on this (unspecified) route? Clutching…
@Eoin Jackson: his car was taken
@Eoin Jackson: you still read it and commented!!
N plate drivers fully entitled to drive alone, L plate drivers are not!
That is why learner Insurance is so high
@john: no thats purely down to insurance companies greed.
@Mjhint: Seems the TD’s who are publicly ripping into the insurance companies may be having an effect. 3 quotes in last few days, all under €380. Haven’t seen it that low in about 12yrs. Hope it starts to trickle down to the younger drivers.
As he sails through the window they will say he was a lovely young fella he’d do anything for you tell him slow down
Only fines – no court ?
@Kevin Davy: no court ! Give the person a chance
@John O Neill: L driver in charge of a lethal weapon, speeding, contrary to the law is reckless endangerment. Do we really need deaths to figure out how dangerous this behaviour is?
@Kevin Davy: the car did get seized though
@Dave Harris: the car should be crushed.
@Kevin Davy: How long is the lassez fair attitude to serious speeding going to continue? That speed is wholly Dangerous and reckless…..Time either the full measure of law is applied or a re visit of the laws around Wreckless and Dangerous driving are re visited (Pardon the pun but Quickly)
86mph in a 60mph zone, wow the Gardai must be so proud. Any real crime being solved.
@Divad Nayr: they are the road policing unit so they are doing their job.
@Divad Nayr: Well, don’t you have a chip on your shoulder! Wonder why……
@Divad Nayr: there are no 60mph zones in Ireland as we measure in kilometres
@Divad Nayr: That was a crime …….. and they caught the criminal … Do try to keep up !!
@Divad Nayr: If one of your kids was killed or injured by a driver exceeding the speed limit by 43%, you’d be telling the driver “Yer grand, sure it’s not like you’re a criminal or anything” ?
@Divad Nayr: Not sure why you need to convert it to British units but anyway, that’s exactly what the Gardaí should be doing. An unlicensed driver speeding is a real crime (two in fact).
Learner drivers going 139 mph in a 100 mph zone would cause a major pile up if he crashed his car …….god help the ordinary drivers on the road trying to avoid him !! Should be taken off the road and banned for years from driving
@Muriel Ryan: You should read this article again! Your exaggeration knows no bounds!
@James McErlain: Think you need to read the article again ……don’t know what you’re talking Exaggeration? …..I didn’t write the article
Still can’t understand people’s need to drive above the speed limit, it’s not as if they’ll get to where they want to be half an hour earlier! And what’s more sad is these people only get the lesson of slowing down when they get into an accident and ‘unintentionally’ kill someone. I don’t know how you can’t intentionally wish someone dead if you intentionally drive at reckless speeds.
Major breaking news!
@Gavin Linden: the news is that the law is not good enough to protect people from negligent drivers.
Was he driving the parents car at the time, I thought they could prosecute the owner of the vehicle once it was proven that the car wasn’t stolen or taken without permission.
Is this really news.
I like fluffy bunnies
Brillant Work By Garda
I’d love to know how many on here, who are condoning unaccompanied learner driving and excessive speeding, sterilize their hands after pushing the placebo button on the pedestrian crossing ….
You should do an article on gardai abducting children in the middle of the night as punishment against their father for publishing video of gardai closing a safe religious service.
https://twitter.com/FatEmperor/status/1388964292813377540?s=19
You should do an article on gardai abducting children in the middle of the night. They are punishing the father for filming gardai shutting down a religious service.
Hurlers on ditch
There was a chase this morning on the Naas rd at 8am this morning silver audi giving the gardai a run for their money,
A lot of fake news in the Journal these days, and all the ones that are fake have the comments blocked which is annoying. I can only imagine it’s government propaganda. I’m going to have to move back to breaking news.
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