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£1,500 fine for Irish driver rushing home
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AN IRISH DRIVER, anxious to get home for the weekend, has been fined more than £1,500 for tachoghraph, drivers' hours and speed limiter offences. Seamus O'Keefe from Cashel, Co Tipperary, was ordered to pay £1,540 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to using a false instrument, namely a tachograph chart; exceeding the daily driving limit; taking
insufficient daily rest; failing to produce tachograph charts; and to two offences of using a vehicle with a defective speed limiter when he appeared before the Wallasey Magistrates.
Prosecuting for the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency, John Heaton said O'Keefe had misdated a tachograph chart in an attempt to show he had had a weekly rest of 28 hours and 20 minutes, whereas in fact he had taken a rest of only four hours 20 minutes.
When interviewed, O'Keefe had claimed that it was a mistake, but he had failed to put it right. The speed limiter, he said, had kept jumping from 88km/h to 93kin/h so he had removed the fuse.
For O'Keefe, David Chant said the daily driving offence was the result of aggregating two daily driving periods together. O'Keefe denied pressure from his employer, but he was anxious to get home to his partner and two children in Ireland.
The magistrates fined O'Keefe a total of £1,390 and ordered him to pay £150 prosecution costs.