Driving Offences

Road Traffic Law is a specialised and technical area of law because there are currently 13 Road Traffic Acts and hundreds of statutory instruments.

Common road traffic offences include driving without a licence or insurance, careless and dangerous driving and drink driving offences. There are in fact numerous road traffic offences.

Most road traffic offences are prosecuted in the District Court and the penalties include, penalty points, fines and disqualification from driving.

A full list of the current penalty point offences are currently listed on our website.

If summonsed to Court for a road traffic offence it is always advisable to instruct a solicitor to act on your behalf.

For further queries please do not hesitate to contact our offices at (01)8728233 or by e-mail at bg@bowlergeraghty.ie