Re: procedure for informing you of Penalty Points when Garda has not got correct add
he broke a red light, didn't go to court and in his absence was charged for driving without insurance and was disqualified and given a €3k fine.
Did he have insurance? If not then fair enough but otherwise - did you challenge at the circuit court.
Can't find a link but I'm reasonably some judges are now throwing out cases where an individual in court swears he didn't receive the notice.
There's a serious weakness in the current points system, since driving licenses are up to 10 years old, many of them have incorrect addresses. A person pulled maybe for the first time in their life is not really in best frame of mind to calmly notice a problem with the driving license address.
Many Gardai realize driving license address aren't useful and ask for an address instead, but that still error prone. Leaving aside typos, the address form they need to fill on their system seemingly won't take a precise Irish style address.
It's just four lines, if the Garda decides to fill in City and County in two of these and drop a couple lines provided, then some addresses will be problematic.
Surely they could just cross reference the reg plate with the motor tax address. I assume they do this for fixed speed cameras.
By the way inadequate signs is a legitimate defense, if a road is deserving of a 50kph limit but otherwise looks from experience like a higher limit road then for safety it needs to be clear to motorists. It's hardly good enough as an alternative to have poor signs and gardai speed checking.