An Garda Síochána are to revoke fines and penalty points that were issued to drivers on a section of the N17.
Gardaí have today begun writing to motorists to inform them that the penalties that they have received for speeding offences by the static speed safety camera system between December 20 2024 and February 12 2025 are being revoked.
1,871 speeding fixed charge notices were issued during this period.
An Garda Síochána and the safety camera provider GoSafe identified an issue on February 12, whereby the static speed camera on the N17 near Claremorris was fully functional and accurately identified offences, but not certified.
It is, according to an Garda Síochána, standard procedure that all cameras used for speeding detection have valid calibration certificates issued by GoSafe.
Once this issue was identified, the camera was certified on February 13 and has been operational since February 14. The more than 230 speeding fines issued from the speed safety camera system on the N17 since 14 February 2025 are valid.
Of the 1,871 fixed charge notices issued during the time whereby the system was invalid, 800 notices were paid and penalty points applied. 123 were paid, however the error was identified prior to penalty points being applied, and of the remaining 948 notices that were issued, no payment was made prior to the error being identified, therefore no penalty points were applied.
