Just 23% of drivers who dodge fines found guilty

Fewer than one in four of the drivers summonsed to court last year for failing to pay a fixed-fine penalty notice were convicted, figures from the Department of Justice show.

The figures, released in response to a parliamentary question by independent TD Tommy Broughan, show 47,967 defendants were summonsed to appear before the courts in 2013 for failure to pay the driving penalty within 56 days.

Of those defendants, just 11,055 were convicted. That’s a conviction ratio of just 23%.