Drivers in Louth caught out by yellow plates and unpaid tax

Gardaí in Louth have issued fixed penalty notices and seized one vehicle following a roadside operation in Ardee this week.

Members of the Dundalk Roads Policing Unit (RPU) stopped two vehicles displaying non-conforming yellow number plates on the rear, despite both being registered in this jurisdiction. 

Both drivers were found to be committing additional offences. The driver of a Volkswagen was identified as a novice driver who failed to display the required ‘N’ plates, while the driver of a Lexus was discovered to be driving a vehicle that had not been taxed for 480 days.

Fixed penalty notices were issued for the various road traffic offences, including the non-conforming registration plates, and the Lexus was seized under Section 41 of the Road Traffic Act 1961.

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“Both drivers were practically driving around with a sign asking to be stopped,” gardai said.