Comments on: Remembering the Stastics

By: Bock the Robber

Bock the Robber — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:27:32 +0000

That beats the shit out of any smug nonsense you’ll hear from Gay Byrne.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:52:30 +0000

Thanks for the kind words all.
Road safety is indeed a very complex issue with many factors contriibuting to most road traffic incidents. All of the things mentioned above are valid points… there are many more to be made. But in this country regulation rarely works especially as we have issues with enforcement of the existing laws. So I would imagine that education(for the next generation of learner drivers), better roads and effective enforcement of existing laws would be a good starting point.

By: janie

janie — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:48:18 +0000

Very sorry for your loss Dave.
I agree with martin, the cars are getting bigger and faster but the roads are getting worse and people just don’t have the skills to deal with both.
Thank you for the reminder to call someone, I forget that while I’m building up a huge wall of guilt for not calling my pal is just happy to hear from me.

By: Eoin

Eoin — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:00:53 +0000

The problem with Road Safety is a complex issue. Speed is definitely a factor but it’s not the only one. The more I think about it the more I begin to realise that it isn’t any one thing that is to blame it is a combination of things. From driving around I find that there is a large amount of drivers on the roads in Ireland who simply do not know the rules of the road. I suspect this is connected to the handing out of licences without a test some years back.

Then of course you have the local authorities designing things like the Kinsale Road Roundabout. How on Earth is a tourist supposed to figure that out when the locals are making up the rules as they go along? It’s OK though tourists won’t need to use it, it’s only between the airport and the city center!

When it comes down to it though the main contributor to road deaths is driver attitude. As Dave said “being dead is a lot less convenient than being late.” If all of us drivers took a safer attitude to driving there would a lot less deaths.

Remember those who have needlessly lost their lives and how none of them though it would happen to them either.

Thinking of you and your family Dave.

By: martin

martin — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:47:45 +0000

I’m sorry about you’re tragic lose Dave and I will gladly support any campaign you propose to highlight this issue. I don’t drive and to tell you the truth I’ve no desire too. Young people are rushing around in lethal machines on roads designed for horses and carts, pumped up with a false sense of achievement on the strength of a low interest credit union loan. It’s a recipe for disaster.