Very sorry for your loss Pilib, especially on what must be a very difficult anniversary.

Lost our dad Mick on the 14th of October this year to the M3. Thinking of you today Pilib.

Nothing’s in the air, they just have some of the worst roads in the country.

We have the worst roads in ireland. I went down to cork on saturday n took the dublin route going down and the galway route the way back. The differance is unbeliveable it was like driven ina differant country

There is nothing wrong with the roads in donegal, they have both the best open roads and bad winding roads.
Nobody knows the circumstances of this mans untimely death either.
but generally speaking, speed and falling asleep due to drink driving or tiredness are the main factors in road deaths all around the country. People drive too fast for the road conditions. If you know the road you are on is full of bends, then why do people still try to drive at 100kph. Speed limits are not targets.
So to say that it’s the bad roads causing these deaths in donegal is pure bullshit

The roads are bad alright.
I’ve been up there a couple of times and their in bits.
But also with the roads been bad,some people drive like lunatics.
I constantly had to keep pulling into the hard shoulder to let drivers by because they were driving on my bumper or passing me out.
Speed limits don’t seem to mater.
More fixed speed cameras on the roads are needed.

I appreciate that Falstaff did his best to speak in generalities, but I think we’d appreciate if commenters might avoid speculating on the cause of this (or, indeed) accident until further details are forthcoming from the Gardai.

Gavin I didn’t speculate on the cause of this mans death. I left it out entirely.
I was just saying that to blame the bad roads in donegal for causing road deaths is B.S.

I appreciate that Falstaff; the comment was directed to readers in general and not to yourself specifically. Apologies if it didn’t come across that way!

http://www.rsa.ie/RSA/Road-Safety/Our-Research/Deaths-injuries-on-Irish-roads/

Donegal has done a lot of work over the last few years to improve its road safety which has been very successful…read the figures above (Cork is the worst at present)! Donegal roads do not get priority in development/funding, so education on drink driving, speed, seat belts and road safety, as well as very visible speed vans seem to be making up for this short fall. This poor man just happened to be unfortunate enough to be in an accident on 1st Jan. Nothing to do with where he’s from. My thoughts are with his family today at this heart breaking time.