All that said, there are a lot of gobshites out there who don’t show courtesy to others, and they are not all slick fringed pubescent idiots with six inch exhausts either.

A lot of progress has been made in increasing awareness and safety, even if much of it was mismanaged at the outset (the provisional license fiasco, and the fact that little has been done to address public concerns that speeding enforcement is more to do with revenue generation than reducing the risk in known black spots.

The solutions are simple; we have the laws now, so enforce them, all of them!

-The idiot who weaves all over the road in a tractor or company Mondeo with a phone clapped to their ear should be landed in court,

-The ignoramus who parks in a discourteous or dangerous manner, likewise,

-The baseball wearing moron who does twenty laps of the main street deafening people and ends up swerving on the back roads at 4am with five strapping blokes in the back, him as well,

-Foreign registered vehicles which have been driven here since there was a boom, in spite of VRT laws, and without any audit trail back to whoever is driving them, should be seized and cubed if their owners don’t pay their way,

-Last but not least, those Gardai who, when not on blues and twos, break the speed limit with impunity and park where they like, they should be treated the same as the Joe Soap who can’t flash his badge at toll plazas instead of paying.

And, educate our kids in school. Transition Year would be an ideal time to carry out driver ed, something similiar to what they do in the States. If we get it right, we might even be able to start them driving at 16…

Agreed, the biggest mistake in road safety was at the time of the conversion of signage from mile to km. They should have taken this opportunity to individualise in a sensible way the speed limits of all the crap little bothrins all the way up to the main motorways. There is no sense in some wide, safe roads having 50km limits while other roads with grass in the middle of them have limits of up to 80km just because they are classified as secondary primary etc. Also speed traps on motorways should be banned as the risk of a fatal road crash is almost zero. It’s a money making racket.

Speed is a factor in one third of accidents, yet is the factor we hear most about. What about the other two thirds, which i would venture is down to pure stupidity and ignorance of rules of the road. Why are we focusing all the time on the one third? Surely we need to after all factors?

Yes, young male drivers have a higher death average. In alot of cases it’s not because they’re speeding, but the don’t know how to deal with the situation put in front of them (icy roads or irresponsible driving from another motorists.

Basically it’s a good idea for thos on provisionals and those with less than 2 years driving experience.

Ridiculous notion that 21 – 25 year olds need this ‘speed limit’.

If you’re going to do it, don’t marginalise one section of society, do it for all drivers. I know people in their late 30′s that im terrified to get into a car with and people under 25 that i would never having a problem going on a car journey with.

age is not the main factor in road deaths, I know and see (like I’m sure others do on here) both young and old drivers male and female black and white with poor driving skills, why do people feel it is nessecessary to Target a particular group?? regardless of age SPEED is the killer aswell as poor road conditions, bad road signs, etc… I myself have been guilty of driving over the speed limit, I should be held accountable for that NOT because of my age

The story is about teenagers who died, teenage years end at 19, yet, all under 25s should be included in this. Thats a 6 year gap. Hmmm

26 year old traveling at 120kph crashes into a 24 year old traveling at 50kph. Both dead.

See my point?

Such a stupid solution to a problem.

I’m 35 and I’ve been driving for 17 years and I willingly admit that I drive over the speed limit when conditions permit. Also, I can honestly say…I have NEVER been in a speed related accident. (knock on wood)

So rather than singling out a certain age group and enforcing only them to have a speed limiter installed in their cars why not put a speed limiter in ALL cars?

What is going to stop a young one from getting behind the wheel of say their parent’s car that doesn’t have a “speed limiter” and either killing themselves or someone else?

Just saying!

(roll on the red thumbs…lol)