Drink/drugs?
To be honest I suspect phones are a massive problem, a huge number of people are using their phones even on the motorway if you look around at the other cars,
It’s time they started handing out fines and points like confetti to get the message through
Drink has to be a big%
Leo said today that its time for the Gardai to enforce the rules of the road, hope thats not just a soundbite.
Cameras on buses woukd be a quick easy win and begin a culture change
Would you be nosing into the cars next to you on a motorway often? Not very safe either.
If I’m on a motorway there’s a 50% chance that I’m not driving 
I think they are a massive issue. I’ve long held a strong belief that the cunt who crashed into my sister and permanently blinded her in one eye was on his phone.
The amount of people you see on them now is incredible.
I’ve also not seen a checkpoint in years
There was a lot more road deaths before phones.
I think we peaked annually at 700 road deaths.
The roads are much safer than ever before.
What’s happened in the past few weeks could just be very unfortunate variance.
From my position while driving a truck I see daily that the frequency and use of mobile phones by drivers is scary, mainly texting. Talking on the phone is one thing, at least eyes are looking forward but the phone is in one hand, one hand on the steering and eyes are on the phone not on the road.
Policing across the board is almost nil. Gatso vans are in the wrong places or places where the bait is far too easy to justify their presence.
Back them there was a lot more drink driving, less use of seat belts, no airbags, a lot of roads weren’t as good, cars weren’t as reliable and less sturdy. You could in and simply buy a driving licence up to 1964 without having to do lessons or a test.
That said, there were less cars on the roads then and mobile phones weren’t a thing and none of this means mobile phones aren’t a problem now.
Problems change as time goes on.
There will always be an element of variance and chance because that’s the way human behaviour and the human condition is.
I know but but you’d expect the authorities are on top of it.
They have kept the numbers coming down for years.
You are always going to get the point where you can’t get it any lower.
The roads were much quieter in 2020 and 2021 and early 2022.
That could have impacted things in some way.
Also talking to a taxi man in dingle last weekend august is by a distance is the busiest for holidays in Ireland. You have so much happening the roads are definitely busier. That combined with very bad weather could explain the spike in numbers.
I read somewhere a few years back that driving using a mobile is as dangerous as driving with 3-4 pints.
I read that also, they say tiredness is also a huge danger.
While I am at it, I have a problem with the Learner process. There is mandatory lessons etc however there is no motorway lessons, no nighttime driving, or lessons in bad weather conditions.
The Irish Judiciary are more concerned with some fat lad with a neck beard in his underpants sitting in a basement abusing people on the internet than tourists getting beaten to death every day of the week in Dublin or dealing with actual crime
They still haven’t caught myboyblue
Or driving with 5 pints lessons.
If you’ve something to say to me out about me tag me in future you coward
I was waiting for a bus on Beresford Place this evening and this absolute head the ball jumps out over the LUAS Line onto Beresford Place, revs the bike, does a wheelie and proceeds to break the red light and speeds towards the Matt Talbot Bridge. This was in rush hour traffic I might add.
I do hope scrambler bike japes don’t become a thing in the inner city.
Is it not a thing in Dublin yet?
Limerick is absolute plagued with scramblers
There was some show outside Katy Daly’s and down by the castle there on Friday evening. They’re absolutely fearless…and stupid.
Fearless is right, you’d have a grudging respect for them
It’s only a matter of time though, the question is will one kill or be killed
There was a bad accident involving a scrambler and a car in thomondgate a few weeks ago.