Well said Eugene, Alot of roads in rural ireland more over are death traps. No hedges trimmed and holes and uneven surfaces all over the place. No local authority will be prosecuted for negligence though!!

Of all these political spokespersons on road safety, Gardai, RSA, Dept of transport not one of them has the balls to stand up and push for a ban and heavy fine on those caught texting while driving. For anybody killed or seriously injured a by tx driver some of these experts up top should be held partially responsible

It’s not about the money, money, money we just want make ye drive safe….drive safe, tax, insurance, backlight.

Sorry ‘white’ area! Or was it a ‘white spot’

At last some sense! All these ” revenue collecting” posts are just ridiculous. If you’re not breaking the law then you won’t accrue any penalty points or fines.

@Chelseajoe. You CAN break a rule which is the no 1 cause of road crashes and not one driver that I know has ever been given penalty points or even a caution.. It’s Tailgating and almost every day I’ve seen the afters of idiots driving like this, Even at or under the speed limit these “accidents” happen.

Tailgating drives me nuts! People can be so stupid

try telling the families and friends who have lost loved ones on the road or have to live with the daily reminder of seeing their loved one struggling to make a new life for themselves having being seriously injured in an accident or the trauma caused to these family, friends and the emergency service crew who have to attend the scenes of these horrific accidents and the one who have to break the sad news to the families, that this is only a revenue generating stunt and I guarantee they will have a very different view on it. after all 1 life saved is worth more than all the revenue that can be collected

Sorry guard I will , save me from disturbing you from important issues like motor tax

and your basis for this pathetic comment please

You don’t raise revenue by detecting crime and it takes a lot more work than sticking a speed trap on a main road where there’s high traffic volume but low accident rates.

Easier to shoot fish in a barrel.

Because shooting fish in a barrel is easier.

Brilliant ciaro!

Agreed revenue collecting. How is it the people that get the most points are the professional drivers. Yes they do break the law but they are still the safest drivers. This is just bull & I will never be convinced. Want to talk about road safety lets talk about road maintenance.

You obviously don’t remember the young lady who lost her life on a bicycle on the North Quays so. A skip lorry and its driver committing a host of road Road Transport Offences ploughed clean over her. Her life might have been saved through an operation like this. Or perhaps the elderly gentleman hit by a car in Dorset St, he might’ve wanted to live another few happy years.

Well joe do you think the authorites are totally honest & can show evidence of this. Its all about money thats it. Its the same all over Europe.

Exactly.

Randy hate to burst the illusion but traffic corps cars are no differant to regular patrol.cars apart from tge battenburg markings.and anpr kit. also traffic corps are roads policing..criminals use roads too. there are NO quotas..there are no drivers being ticketed for couple k’s over a limit…those things exist only in.urban mythology. we are consistently looking for similar patrol cars to our UK colleagues…bespoke fir police work but as yet no.word on.ANY replacement vehicles this year and that woukd be 2nd year in 3 that that would be the case. yhe fleet nationally is in a precarious state as regards the mileage limits. and m/bikes……

so you think its safe to have a checkpoint on a twisting turning tight country road?

@Michael. I do believe you and it doesnt surprise me. It just goes to show you the stupidity of these so called experts as they contradict themselves when they tell us it’s ok to stick your hand out the window to send signals to others, not mentioning the danger this would be for cyclists, yet they say it’s dangerous to have a smoke.

@ David. What planet are u on. ‘ make everyone do the test when they renew their licence. ‘ as if it doesn’t cost enough money to do the test in the first place. More screwing of the motorist and perfectly competent drivers who have already passed the test

@ Brian. I’m living on planet Ireland where the majority of people cannot negotiate their way around a roundabout correctly, don’t know how to use indicators or don’t know how to drive on motorways. When you drive in other countries you really notice it. Also when you fail your test here you can drive home from the test centre. It’s about time this country took road safety seriously instead of hitting the same few easy targets all the time like talking on your phone or exceeding the 50 kph speed limit on a dual carriageway. How come you can still light a cigarette and smoke it but you can’t talk on a handheld phone for instance. The amount of people you see doing makeup, shaving and eating their breakfast in traffic is unreal while they laze around the road oblivious to what is going on around them. It doesn’t cost that much to do the test unless you need lessons and if you need lessons then you need lessons.

I couldn’t agree more!! The standard of driving in this country is absolutely atrocious!
I also strongly believe that if anyone fails their driving test 3 times they SHOULD NOT be permitted to drive. We have a rubbish driving education system, and as we all know knowledge is power. If the knowledge was there perhaps these deaths wouldn’t be happening, but instead the Gardai believe punishing will have the same result… Foolish.

Just to clarify, i don’t think anyone who fails their test should be able to drive home afterwards. But more than 3 times then you clearly cannot drive, and are therefore a danger to yourself and others – in my honest opinion.

@ David.I still think your wrong about having to resit the test every time u renew ur licence. Whilst u raise some good points about people’s driving which I agree with, resitting the test is not the answer. I drive about 60000 miles per year for the last ten years, and have never been involved in any incidents or have any penalty points. So I don’t see why I should resit my test. If anything I actually am a better more experienced driver since I sat my test 20 years ago.

A Garda and two qualified driving instructors once told me there’s no advantage in using lights at daytime. You wouldn’t expect that from professionals who try to educate us on road safety!

You are so right. Makes me vexed to read articles like this.

So 22 deaths in 7 weeks isn’t a good enough reason to warrant a major operation like this? What? Anything to help raise the awareness and perhaps standard of driving in this country is worthwhile IMHO.

Id suggest more people have committed suicide due to financial pressure in past year than have died from road deaths. Govt have priorities all wrong.

Would you prefer your plasma tv to be robbed or a family member to be killed on the road?

Having your house burgled won’t get you or others killed!

If their going to charge motorists for something as minor as eating a banana or lighting a cig, then they would have to make it an offence to use hand signals.

Nope, they’re exempt!

Take a pic and post it here

And what would that achieve!?

Shame them into towing the line ,can’t see why they Garda can’t afford hands free kits ,their English colleagues all have hands free kits installed in the cars they operate

@Alan the kits should be provided FOR the Gardai not BY the individuals themselves, but as with most of the cars etc they are not fit for purpose when compare to the cars/ motorbike provided to the colleague overseas. The entire fleet of cars available to the gardai is depleting every day due to the age of the cars and not enough replacement vehicles being provided.

Yeah, because you drive better when you’re drunk & on the phone… Stupid comment!

What’s stupid about it exactly?

I never said they drive better. I said there’s worse crimes happening. Read before you attack angry man.

I posted that at 10:00, guess what happens at 10:00? The rossers change their shifts, looks like they are big fans of journal.ie ;-)