{"id":7028,"date":"2025-08-18T12:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/7028\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T12:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:05:10","slug":"a-fixed-charge-notice-doesnt-cut-it-limerick-motorist-arrested-for-dangerous-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/7028\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A fixed charge notice doesn&#8217;t cut it&#8217; &#8211; Limerick motorist arrested for dangerous driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A LIMERICK motorist is due to appear in court after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/230\/community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">found<\/a> to be speeding in a speed check by the Roads Policing Unit.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed said &#8220;a fixed charge notice doesn&#8217;t cut it here,&#8221; and arrested the driver on the spot, charging the driver with dangerous driving.<\/p>\n<p>The speed checks were carried out on Sunday evening, August 17.<\/p>\n<p>The motorist was travelling 86km\/h over the speed limit at 206km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was detailed in a post shared by An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na on Instagram (@gardainsta_limerick) on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/planning\/1869855\/novas-not-involved-in-new-project-adjacent-to-its-support-facility-in-limerick-city.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Novas \u2018not involved in new project\u2019 adjacent to its support facility in Limerick city<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The caption read: &#8220;Speed checks were carried out this evening by our Roads Policing Unit in Limerick.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One driver was clocked travelling at 206km\/h &#8211; 86km\/h over the legal limit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Fixed Charge Notice doesn\u2019t cut it here &#8211; they were arrested on the spot and charged with Dangerous Driving. Court date ahead at Limerick District Court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They added the hashtag #SaferRoads.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A LIMERICK motorist is due to appear in court after being found to be speeding in a speed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,876,17,11,12,1844,15,16,5,7193,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-7028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-instagram","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-limerick","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-roads","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}