Brian, you are only asking for trouble if you drive and shave at the same time.

Took me a few moments. Good one Dave :)

I use the VIP land also. Middle lane Michaels and Mollies don’t really like changing lanes. Guess they missed all the ads on the telly and wireless.

And this ^ is the very reason for driver frustration and anger building up. Stop using the overtaking lanes as driving lanes – we will ALL get there safer and faster if you do!

I hope you’re not one of the idiots who stays in lane 1 when people are trying to merge on? Slamming your breaks when the person trying to merge has had to pull out in front of you? Personally I’m lane 3, even if it’s not best driving practice. If people would drive at 100 in lane 2 that would be fine, but they don’t! That’s usually where the people who aren’t sure how to drive on the m50 hover, lane 3 is usually safer!

Marina, Marina! You do know that staying in the right hand lane is wrong! It’s an over taking lane. I know there cant be much said when there are 3 lanes of traffic as far as the eye can see.

If we all did the right thing, listened to the ads and stay in the left lane for cruising – then we would have less accidents.

Furthermore staying at 100kph in an over taking lane is also wrong. You will get the tossers who want to zip past you, climb up your exhaust pipe and flash their merry little lights. Get out of their way, even if you are doing 100kph – you are not a law enforcer, if they want to break the law, so be it. But don’t block them. Let the law enforcers do that. They are wrong. But they will lane weave to get around you, because of you.

Keep to the left lanes. And as you say, allow for the incoming mergers.

I saw a young woman in a Nissan Micra the other day driving on the m50 in lane 3 at 80kmp/h with a line of traffic behind her. Traffic began moving out of the way for a Garda traffic corps jeep, until it was right behind this Micra. She did not see the garda. The garda then began driving up her ass for around 30 seconds – she still did not see the garda. The garda eeep then put on its blue lights on – she still did not see the garda. The siren was finally sounded along with blue lights and she finally moved over. What hope do the rest of us have ?

As I passed by her, she was gripping the steering wheel for dear life, peering out the window with no all around observation happening.

Marina. you obvioulsy have no concept of the rules of the road. when joining a motorway, you are supposed to match the speed of the traffic you are trying to merge with. its it not up to the current moving traffic on the motorway to move out of your way. I suggest you speed up when trying to merge and look at the road marking that clearly stage give way . your bad habits endanger others

No Marina, I know how to use a motorway properly thanks….

Even more frustrating is when someone joins a motorway and pulls straight into lane 2 or 3 when lane 1 is perfectly clear! It makes no sense! Also when lane 3 hoggers pull over to let traffic past and then pull back out to lane 3 straight away again! You’d wonder what is going on in people’s heads sometimes!

Agree Damien, I often pass cars on the m50 at night in lane 3. They courteously move over to lane 2, and then move back to lane 3 again when the whole motorway is empty.

All this crap would be solved if it was legal to undertake as in the US and a lot of EU countries. People who say undertaking on any motorway is dangerous, I’d like them to tell me why.

Excuse me Simon you’ve made a lot of incorrect assumptions about my driving practices there. I’m not doing 50 trying to merge into traffic doing 80 – sometimes cars in lane one leave no room to merge no matter what speed you’re doing. I’ve already said I understand that it’s not best driving practice, but lane 3 is where the confident drivers who know what they’re doing drive, so that’s where I’ll stay

Marina, you just sum up everything that’s wrong with Irish driving practices… “I’ll do it my way and I don’t care if it’s wrong. Screw everybody else”

You should have your license taken from you and made resit your test!

Marina, you must be winding us up here! What next, that you call your “rear view mirror” your “make up mirror”?

It’s really quite simple Bobo…its a thing called a blind spot that all educated and responsible drivers know and care about. It exists on the left and right side of your car hence why manufacturers put “blind spot” split mirrors on your car.

I remember your comments on this subject before and I would love to know where you get the information that in most EU countries and the US it is legal to undertake.

Do they not have blindspots? Is there some miraculous invention that has made them go away.

Get a licence and take some lessons…it will help.

On a 4 lane motorway with you in lane 1 and a hogged in lane 3, your trying to tell me for you to overtake that vehicle and get back into your lane it’s safer to make 7 (seven) maneuvers than make I maneuver to undertake? Explain to me how this makes you a safer driver.

And I’d pass it again because lucky for me they don’t test motorway driving eh?

What else would I use it for?

Marina. Did you forget the bit of the test where you turned out onto a dual carriageway? Multi lane manouvers are part of the test…

It’s usually the drivers who think they’re brilliant who cause most of the accidents. They think they own the roads and can drive as they please on them. Ring any bells?

Barney r. As you use the word “everyone” that must includes you. Or maybe your just that 1 in a few hundred thousand:)

angry much?

I assume you know cause of this accident then.

Yep, the cause of most accidents is Human Error and if you use the M50 and M1 daily you will see that Human Error is in turn caused by Human Stupidity !

Human error causes around 92% of road crashes and I agree with you using the word “most”.

Poxy women drivers.!!

It was the bankers, they caused it

Oh Bob…… Are you going for red thumb record of the week?

The lanes leading up to the slip road off the M50 on to the M1 going northbound every morning aound 8am have to be the scariest scenes ever. Those northern f***ers rushing home after overnighting in Dublin obey no lane etiquette or any speed limits ever. They are a danger to any road users who happen to be in their way. But do we ever see any Garda presence around there. I haven’t and i travel it every morning.