Errant drivers could soon be facing harsher penalties for offences such as speeding, driving without a seatbelt and using a mobile phone while driving. The measures are contained in the Road Traffic Bill 2012, which was approved by the Cabinet today. Under the proposals, penalty points for these offences would rise from two points...
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Allowing a child to travel unrestrained in a car or a goods vehicle is to become a penalty points offence from midnight. Transport Minister Leo Varadkar has announced a raft of new seatbelt-related penalties in a bid to tackle the flouting of this law. Figures from the RSA have shown that 23 per cent...
Read more →Higher points for speeding and using a mobile phone are among the proposals to emerge from a government review of the penalty points system. The Department of Transport review recommends increasing the penalty points from two to three for speeding. It also suggests consideration be given to introducing a graduated range of penalty points...
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