Its coming in 2014, all cars now sold must have DRL( daylight running lights) still I agree with you, there are a lot of morons out there with no lights in heavy rain, dusk and fog.

I’m not sure I agree that this is really needed, maybe in bad weather or winter but on a bright day if you can’t see a car without it having headlights on there are clearly eyesight issues of more significance!

I can understand this in northern candanavia with short daylight hours and long snowy winters, but here? hmm seems a bit nanny state.

I guess maybe they just can’t trust the public to remember to turn their lights on?

They do publish, it’s just that their stats are garbage is all

As it happens, I came across http://www.childreninwales.org.uk/12273.file.dld while looking for the link I posted in reply to Proinnsias. Same author (Dr. Declan Bedford) and interesting reading (Summary: what you suspect is backed up by the stats Trev).

They may postpone operation slow down.
Never seen a Gardai get wet to date.

I totally agree. Just this morning I passed a Gatso van heading out of skerries on a road that has no speed limit signs! So nobody has a clue what the limit is along the road. It’s a total scam & that van is in the same spot every week. Handy money for them!

If everyone knows the speed guns or Gatso positions. Why the hell do people still get caught??????

Do people honestly believe that the guards are purposely going out to make revenue for the same government that has cut their pay by almost 40%? By reading these comments you would think the guard was getting a commission

The standard of driving in this country has come a long way but when people say there are no speed signs on a road just means they did not pay attention to the last one they saw. People usually do not speed deliberately, they just do not have a clue or care what the limit is, but they always remember to put on their front fog lights on a sunny day !

@Gerard – not the Gardai, but the private company who runs much of the speed camera vans etc. After the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown debacle regarding the quotas in the public tender for parking fines that broke news this week, the possibility of speeding fines having a quota or being a cash-cow revenue generator are not exactly far fetched!

I agree. I also wish it was a daily occurance and not a 24 hour initiative.

The problem is Gardai would be there to see a range of things and intervene not just speeding issues. Not just with fines but sometimes with a word of advice and explaination of why something is dangerous. Instead we now have the same problem as the UK – a faceless unwavering array of vans with cameras – oh and lets not forget that many of these are operated by private company not the Gardai. These don’t police the roads, they’re a box-ticking facade of road safety.

What gets to me most is we used to have all the “accident blackspot” signs. That’s where the problems were, at specific points. Do they put cameras at those points? No! they put them somewhere on that stretch of same road, usually NOT at the point where the accidents typically occur but where it’s convenient for them to park, possibly beyond the point of danger where the speed limit is the same but there is no significant risks to anybody.

And enough has already been made of the setting of the limits (or lack thereof leaving insane defaulys) by the local authorities. I won’t go into that again.

400,000 x 2 less journeys a day is saving lives . . . The figures include those using a vehicle to literally leave the live register. Do the risk assessment maths; 2.5 million or so cars (forgetting the trucks) doing two journeys a day 365 days a year. 171 fatal injuries doesn’t even compute into this figure. So the money to risk is vastly disproportionate. Sadly you can’t get rid of the fact accidents will happen. I know I lost my father to the roads and had to rationalist it, as not being anything other. Would far prefer policy funding was concentrated on our mental health issues to reduce the suicide rate – which is far greater.

The RSA stats are useful to a point but they fail to include a significant proportion of injuries due to collisions. See http://www.hse.ie/eng/services/Publications/HealthProtection/Public_Health_/RTC-related_Hospital_Admissions_2005-2009,_A_Report.pdf

Have been out and about driving yesterday and today havent seen any yet.

Are you sure they’re actually speeding? I think they have onboard speed limiters set rather low. Busses look like they’re going faster than they often are cause of the size and sound (the bus gearboxes seem to never know when to change up to a higher gear!?).

Make men and women in tight clothes pay insurance, they cause people to stare and be distracted. make the birds in the sky pay insurance, they draw our stare away from the road. Make people with finely manicured gardens pay insurance, they create a distraction.

Can you post a link to the stats on fatalities caused by cyclists? I won’t ask for injuries as reliable stats are hard to find as I mentioned above.

Most ridiculous comment of the day there, well done fella

But its raining there isn’t it?

May well explain it, by the way I’m all for patrols in fact I’d love to see speed check points, catching people using mobile phones while driving and those that have no documentation, but from doing 1500 miles a week over four counties it is sorely lacking especially on country roads and bad spots.

That’s because there are feck all guards working in the country towns anymore and alot of those that are dont have transport. It’s just an unfortunate fact and from what I can see around my area it’s just getting worse

Agree completely I have driven from Edenderry to Donnybrook on the M4 and M50 and did not see a single Garda vehicle

Hey John did she take down your particulars. he he