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New Highway Code, fines change: sanctions proportionate to the speed and stop to automatic increases
["Conor O'Sullivan"]
IrishDentist.ie
From fines calculated based on kilometers over the 17-year-old license limit, to the new rules on insurance, overtaking and notifications: what the reform of the Highway Code provides.
There is a paragraph that really triggers applause among the new rules of the Highway Code.
As unexpected as it is probably effective in making those with heavy feet responsible, the provision is among those that will form the new Highway Code by October 14th, the expiry date of the extension granted to the old Code.
At that point it will again be up to the ministry to integrate the new ideas into a single text.
As regards the driving license for seventeen-year-olds, it is an alignment with a plan to update the law envisaged by Brussels and will be based on the principle of accompanied driving.