News on driving in Poland

Hahaha!
That's so Polish!!
spiting him by depriving him of fines money!!! LOL

LOL, I am just tired of my GPS telling me "Photo-radar ahead; slow down to 80 km/h" every ten minutes. I am tired of accelerating and slowing down, again and again. It just makes me drive faster then usual, out of pure frustration.

In Poland? :):):)

Have you ever tried to drive from Bielsko-Biala to Katowice?
Before you pass Czechowice-Dziedzice, it is more like every 2 minutes.

Once in my lifetime I drove through Czechowice.
But we drive to the seaside almost each year. Yes, GPS warns about radars but I like it as it introduces nice variety into a long and boring journey.

Odd how that happens, isn't it?
That is my one big "against" speed cameras and speeding tickets. The revenue becomes the ends and not the means and that is as serious a problem as speeding imo.

Come on, 10 minutes is still satisfactory result. When driving fast, you can cover quite an impressive distance within that time


It was possible with the old syste, 300 masts equipped with 70 radars.
Now, with new masts and all working, it is going to cost you a lot.

Strange. I heard that the police and other road services in Britain are intent on helping citizens, not punishing and exorting at any cost.

Today`s news:

The Supreme Audit Office (Polish: Najwyższa Izba Kontroli, abbreviated NIK), the supreme audit institution is going to check if radars have been installed to improve safety or to secure good revenue for local councils. Especially, they are going to investigate the location of radars which haven`t decreased the number of accidents and casualties.


Still a better one:

An opposition MP suggests drivers should wear a mask showing a countenance of the minister responsible for new rules.

" He writes to you because damn it gets me . Why is this country so I do not respect ? (...) I was driving like every day to work the same way for years. At the counter I was about . 60 km - go into the corner and behind him - immediately sign a release to 40 km / h (there's never been a speed limit) and for him of course, speed camera . before my mask another car - braked sharply . obviously it was not cleared of snow ( servants were busy putting up speed cameras ) I ran into a skid ... I lost : efficient car , discount no-claims bonus and a remnant of respect to their own country " - it reads.

Back in Poland driving

Hahaha!
I do love my people lol

This link may help a few on here highwaymaps.eu/poland

Another help:

Makes, colours and registration plates of undercover radar cars:

In case they remove it from their site.

No wonder.

thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/125822,Speed-camera-plan-hits-government-popularity

The fall in the government's popularity in a new opinion poll is the result of the new plan to introduce more speed cameras on Poland's roads, says a ruling Civic Platform politician.

An opinion poll released on Thursday puts the main opposition party, Law and Justice (PiS), on 30 percent support, one percent more than the senior coalition partner, Civic Platform (PO).

"I think this poll is the result of all the noise about speed cameras and [the government's] national road safety program," vice-president of Civic Platform, Grzegorz Schetyna, told the Radio Zet station, Thursday morning.

A young woman who, being under influence of drugs, killed two boys on a pedestrian crossing was sentenced to 8 years and life ban on driving.

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that's it?
Is that considered lenient?

Parents of two boys don`t object though maximum penalty was 12 years.

Plus she has to pay 50.000 zlotys to each family.

I don't know the parents but having lost a child due to another person's negligence, I can say it is very very disorienting. As for the the money....so what?

Okay so my wife told me last evening a young man, while driving drunk, hit a mother and her child with his vehicle, killing the mother. His sentence was 25 years.

I have not confirmed this as I trust my wife would not get the details of that wrong. If that is not true then my apologies.

If it is true then am I alone in noticing something very wrong when comparing the two sentences?
The maximum she could receive was 12 while the maximum he could receive was 25?

Anyway pawian, I was only offering you an explanation for why the parents didn't seek a longer sentence. I was only trying to say that based on experience, I can understand them.

Probably your wife gave you wrong info. Or she missed some important details. You get 25 years for premeditated murder.

Yes, I understood you well and them too.

Oh man, nothing gets her more intolerable than when I ask her if she missed any details...nonetheless, is there a circumstance in which manslaughter could get someone 25 years? Does it depend on how effective one's lawyer is/isn't?

Causing an accident in which a fatality occurs can`t give you more than 8 years. If under an influence, it rises to 12 years.

Good to know and I plan on never utilizing that knowledge beyond the hypothetical.
So if he actually did receive a 25 year sentence, it then would have had to be ruled homicide of some degree, have I got that right?

However I am curious about the logic used when a woman kills 2 children and doesn't even receive the maximum for killing 1 person...I should really know more about the law here.

Yes, like he had planned the cold blood murder before and used his car as a tool.

In Polish law it doesn`t matter if you kill 1 or two - the sentence is like for 1. When there are more victims, you are accused of transport catastrophe which may result in max 12 years.

The woman got 8 because she was young, without previous criminal record.

So would him having multiple offenses have garnered him a 25 yr sentence?

No, if that wasn`t premeditated murder.

When driving to the seaside, I saw one speed control road police patrol through 700 km. Coming back, two patrols.

Speed control cameras are much more frequent, though.

Earlier, driving from the mountains, we had been caught speeding 65 in 50 speed limit urban zone. I had got two points and had had to pay 50 zlotys fine.

On 18-05-2015 a new law has come into force. It states that if you are exceeding speed by over 50km/h in a built-up area, in addition to a ticket, your license is suspended for 3 months. Cammer has been caught doing 107km/h in a 50km/h city zone. His license has been taken by the policeman. Driver punished by this gets a 24-hour cerrtificate which he can use to travel to home.

Dialogue from 1:04: - pull your hand brake, turn the engine off. Hello, this is traffic department. Documents, ID, driving license please. (...) - Do you see this? - Yes - Then you will not see this again for 3 months. Your measured speed is 107km/h, 50km/h is allowed here. Today your license is retained.

reddit/r/Roadcam/comments/37gjis/poland_since_18052015_it_is_this_easy_to_lose/

Old news, but excellent news all the same Pawian.

Of course, rick kids driving through Gdynia in their sports cars/on works motorbikes are clearly exempt :(

Since that post (Jan 2013), a sizeable fleet of Opel Insignias has been added. All the ones that I have spotted have been black hatchbacks, mostly with Mokotów plates, but I have seen some with Śródmieście, Katowice and Olsztyn plates too.

Yes, Insignias.

I saw one in Krakow a few times too. Often enough to take a pic:

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It doesn't look like an Opel Insignia to me, but a Vectra

Luxury Aston Martin crashed into a tractor which was turning left:

"The police determined that the agricultural tractor, which was turning left by a 74-year-old from Nakło Śląskie, was hit by an Aston Martin driven by a 37-year-old from Piekary Śląskie," the police reported.

The officers analyzed the course of the incident, using recordings from nearby surveillance cameras as a support. Ultimately, they determined that both drivers were at fault. "While maneuvering the agricultural tractor, the man did not exercise due caution, and the driver of the passenger car overtook other vehicles, ultimately hitting the turning Ursus," the police reported.

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Crikey. I can think of one undertaker's that's going to go bust. Or change its name. Mind you, it probably should anyway.

Polish media reported that a man was driving down a street on Friday in Stalowa Wola, a city in south-eastern Poland, when he saw a sheet on his car window. When the sheet slid down, he saw a body lying on the road. For a moment the driver feared that he had hit the person.

Local media published an image of the body lying on a white-striped pedestrian crossing, where it had tumbled out of the hearse.

theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/19/funeral-home-in-poland-apologises-after-body-falls-from-hearse-into-traffic

That was extremely dangerous. He could have died!
Of a heart attack.

They do it much better in Ireland. They drop coffins with bodies inside from helicopters onto fields in the countryside. A lot safer.

Driving in Poland used to be unpleasant because of the narrow roads and the roadside trees that made accidents deadly, but now the situation has improved greatly thanks to the new roads and highways.

Most Polish drivers are still way too aggressive and angry, but that's another point.

Another horrible accident just down the road from me last night.

Why can't they drive safely? The footage is sad to see.

tvn24.pl/tvnwarszawa/okolice/wypadek-w-lomiankach-nie-zyje-trzecia-osoba-st9000598

Why do they legally make cars that exceed the country's speed limit by far? In Poland and EU they are tough factories that pollute over an established limit, so why not do the same with car makers?