FabSwingers.com forum: on a serious note the standard of driving

By *ommick OP Man
over a year ago

cork

IM not one for getting too serious here but after the documentary on TV last night got me thinking....

Is it just me or have ye noticed the standard of safety on our roads has slipped

I drive 90 minutes to work every day and the amount of tailgating and dangerous overtaking is unbelievable

Worried in cork

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cork is a crazy place to drive

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By *dam010Man
over a year ago

Dublin

Yes traffic has increased over the last few years as the economy has picked up and policing is thin on the ground and mostly random spot checks. Sentencing in the courts is also quite lenient.

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By *shoreMan
over a year ago

cork

The most dangerous thing you will do in your life is drivining........you add up the amount of near misses if it happened at work the place would be closed down......there is a lot of stupid people allowed to drive....ie people with a lower than average brain capicity.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Can't drive in cork Id say

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By *shoreMan
over a year ago

cork

Very true.....i love it

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By *ommick OP Man
over a year ago

cork

"Yes traffic has increased over the last few years as the economy has picked up and policing is thin on the ground and mostly random spot checks. Sentencing in the courts is also quite lenient. "

Has the economy picked up? Glad to hear it...

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By *dam010Man
over a year ago

Dublin

"Yes traffic has increased over the last few years as the economy has picked up and policing is thin on the ground and mostly random spot checks. Sentencing in the courts is also quite lenient.

Has the economy picked up? Glad to hear it..."

Yeah it's generally considered a good thing

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By *isdirtygirlWoman
over a year ago

Dublin

Regardless of where you live, people tend to forget 2 basic things.

Roads are lethal.

Cars are machines that can kill.

I dont need to say anymore than that.

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By *ommick OP Man
over a year ago

cork

"Regardless of where you live, people tend to forget 2 basic things.

Roads are lethal.

Cars are machines that can kill.

I dont need to say anymore than that.

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By *ommick OP Man
over a year ago

cork

"Yes traffic has increased over the last few years as the economy has picked up and policing is thin on the ground and mostly random spot checks. Sentencing in the courts is also quite lenient.

Has the economy picked up? Glad to hear it...

Yeah it's generally considered a good thing"

Hasn't reached Munster yet....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

OK I do have one issue that annoys me roundabouts ... you have two Lane entrance one or two Lane exit ... you enter roundabout on left side .... you fecking stay on left side and go around you do not cut across and go straight from left Lane to right Lane back out to left Lane....

sorry but really is annoying

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Southern drivers are mad

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By *dam010Man
over a year ago

Dublin

"Yes traffic has increased over the last few years as the economy has picked up and policing is thin on the ground and mostly random spot checks. Sentencing in the courts is also quite lenient.

Has the economy picked up? Glad to hear it...

Yeah it's generally considered a good thing

Hasn't reached Munster yet....

Here's one example https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2017/0203/849860-virgin-media-jobs-limerick/

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By *eadue stallionMan
over a year ago

Yes

"OK I do have one issue that annoys me roundabouts ... you have two Lane entrance one or two Lane exit ... you enter roundabout on left side .... you fecking stay on left side and go around you do not cut across and go straight from left Lane to right Lane back out to left Lane....

sorry but really is annoying "

..or stop at roundabout with nothing coming and then pull out in front of car!!

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By *ka ..Agent k ..Man
over a year ago

..anyone ever drive around the peripherique in Paris !

Eight lanes of traffic with only a single yellow line in the centre

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I done the drive aroung paris . Its mad

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By *ka ..Agent k ..Man
over a year ago

"I done the drive aroung paris . Its mad"

Mad I'd think is an understatement

There more foolish than crazy

Makes this country look like a pop

I personally think we have two Many bad habits & most times we just excused others and get on with it.

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By *isdirtygirlWoman
over a year ago

Dublin

"Southern drivers are mad

Why are we mad??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Possibly. Did you catch todays series of crashes on the N25 this morning? Rubber necking is contagious.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

After being in a car crash

Believe me your health is your wealth

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I dunno, I find the February/March the opening of the mad driving season in Ireland, until the Irish get in control of the woken up hormones... and then the other critical moment is May/June when the sun hits... thats absolute carnage

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yep on my daily commute to Belfast have encountered some erratic driving normally due to impatient and thoughtless drivers. The miles I do daily, I think increases the probability of being caught in a collision. But I can only control my own driving, so here's hoping I stay collision free

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

yeah dont get me started on the drivers from up north, they dont need no stinking rules of the road, cause they can never be caught and punished by Garda

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"yeah dont get me started on the drivers from up north, they dont need no stinking rules of the road, cause they can never be caught and punished by Garda"

I might be offended as I from North, maybe unfair to stereotype all from North in that bracket

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have two bugbears....

The idiot who sits in the middle lane instead of using it for its purpose OVERTAKING

Overtaking on the inside

And yes one often causes the other

Sam

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By *al2001Man
over a year ago

kildare

Ireland has the worst drivers in Europe by far and with good reason. Half the drivers in the road have no licence and never passed a test

My father had an amnesty licence from the 70s. There was such a back log of ppl applying for licences the government gave licences to anyone who applied. Great solution

And my mother hasn't a licence because like a lot of her age group she would never pass a test but has been driving for 40 years and cops can't put all those old women like her off the roads so cops and insurance companies turn a blind eye

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

As a northern dweller I can say there are lots of gear heads up here. The roads are not good in general. Driving is fun up here because the roads are bad. But the standard of drivers is actually quite high.

Driving in towns and cities is very different tho. There is always a tonne of pressure on drivers especially in Dublin. Sitting in your car losing your sanity inch by inch. When we moved to the country you couldn't believe how much less pressure there is.

If you learn how to drive in a city then you don't know how to behave on country roads. The place we live doesn't even have road markings. You can see the fear in drivers eyes as they take blind uphill bends ...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Driving standards are not great both sides of the border the boy racers are the worst

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Driving standards are not great both sides of the border the boy racers are the worst "

Says you

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I find the older drivers are worse. Braking hard when a car passes, doing 30 in a 50 zone. Not making good progress makes everyone else take chances

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By *ub_leitrim_guyMan
over a year ago

Out in the sticks

it has gone pretty bad alright!

There was an accident last week in Leitrim!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Having had a close call with family members in a serious car crash last summer...slow down, wear your safety belt and drive like your child is around the next corner. Scary stuff how people take chances...well and good to type that its the idiots that are taking chances but who here can put their hand up and claim that they have never made a silly mistake on the roads from not indicating to rushing and everything in between... The change comes from every person holding a steering wheel. Yes there are some extreme chancers out there but it's most commonly your average driver I.e. us.

Madame B

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By *oghunter33Woman
over a year ago

on the hill NordWest of

I think almost every category of drivers has already been blamed for bad driving on this thread: Corkonians, young/old, south/north, city/countryside etcetera....did someone mention women drivers yet?

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By *BelfastGuyMan
over a year ago

Belfast

Tailgating even worst in the wet. Be safe drive safe and leave loads of room

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I think almost every category of drivers has already been blamed for bad driving on this thread: Corkonians, young/old, south/north, city/countryside etcetera....did someone mention women drivers yet?

Sure if they all drove like us DH no-one would be complaining. Steady as we go.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Corkonians are the worst (IMO). The rules don't apply here, red lights are optional, 120 is the speed limit and courtesy is a lost art.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Corkonians are the worst (IMO). The rules don't apply here, red lights are optional, 120 is the speed limit and courtesy is a lost art. "

Try the wilds of west cork!!!

I was stuck in a huge back log of traffic coming into town one day as I watched the guards come flying up the wrong side of the roads, sirens, lights, the works...we were all treated to witnessing the worlds slowest car chase around the square as the old lad holding the whole lot up wouldn't pull over as he lapped the square at a crawl...guards eventually closed in on him but they were laughing too. Gutted I didn't think to record it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've the benny hill music in my head

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If ya really wanna see how bad drivers are, go out on a motorbike for a while.

Use of phones

Putting make up on

Shaving

Not looking

Etc. Etc.

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By *owdyBoobyMan
over a year ago

limerick

Should be an automatic ban for people who use their phone while driving no need for it in this day and age.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Should be an automatic ban for people who use their phone while driving no need for it in this day and age."

And for women putting on makeup whilst driving 120kms per hour down the M1

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By *irdnBorisMan
over a year ago

meath

"Should be an automatic ban for people who use their phone while driving no need for it in this day and age.

And for women putting on makeup whilst driving 120kms per hour down the M1

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lol try not to make a mess l.b.p x

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By *ohn MingoMan
over a year ago

Dublin

Unobservant drivers are a pet peeve of mine. It's like no one else exists outside the little bubble of their car.

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By *riendWithBenefits2Man
over a year ago

antrim

As a truck driver who drives all over the south, uk and europe in the past, the standard of driving has got worse in the past 10 yrs or so. People just do not care about other driver at all, its as if they have blinkers on. The amount of times i leave enough distance between me and the car in front and some eejit flys past me and manouvers into that space in front of me and brakes.

are they thinking that im 44 tonne and can i get pulled up....NO....and if anything happens "its the trucks fault". I would like to say to all car drivers please please think before you jump into a space in front of a truck and also to the drivers that are txing and on facebook on your phones, can you please concentrate on driving..

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By *ommick OP Man
over a year ago

cork

I actually find women drivers good less aggressive for sure

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I've the benny hill music in my head "

Perfect musical accompaniment for that fiasco...people actually cheered lol

Madame B

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By *eanontiWoman
over a year ago

Limerick

Yesterday I was nearly rear ended by a courier driving the golf links road. They've put in new speed bumps I knew they were there he didn't nor did he notice I'd breaked to slow down. He was that close and again on the second one. Guess what he was texting......

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By *ub_1Man
over a year ago

Northside

I hate Irish traffic lights, red straight onto green, why no amber, give people a chance to get into gear.....

Wish I could turn left on red when safe as well...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If ya really wanna see how bad drivers are, go out on a motorbike for a while.

Use of phones

Putting make up on

Shaving

Not looking

Etc. Etc.

You shave put on make up use your phone and drive with your eyes shut ....on a bike... ffs there's brave

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By *ommick OP Man
over a year ago

cork

So rather than this be a rant let's turn it into an eye opener for everyone to be safer drivers more alert slower less aggressive drivers

Stay safe fabbers

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By *ommick OP Man
over a year ago

cork

O and BTW Sara close the bar and call a taxi for everyone

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"IM not one for getting too serious here but after the documentary on TV last night got me thinking....

Is it just me or have ye noticed the standard of safety on our roads has slipped

I drive 90 minutes to work every day and the amount of tailgating and dangerous overtaking is unbelievable

Worried in cork

Ya galway is very very bad also a journey that should take 20 mins to work is and hour and bit with very bad driving yellow boxes blocked to point that ambulance and emergency service vechiles are held up. and tailgating that would make NASCAR look very tame.

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By *he Master JMan
over a year ago

Southall

"As a northern dweller I can say there are lots of gear heads up here. The roads are not good in general. Driving is fun up here because the roads are bad. But the standard of drivers is actually quite high.

I have lived in London for more than 30 years I started driving on the farm at home when I was 7 years old as we all did them days my son started driving at 10 on private land my daughter at 13 they both passed their tests first time I have pulled the largest loads around London 100 ton plus the people who don't know how to drive should be put off the road

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By *s louWoman
over a year ago

Enniskillen

Just the other day I was behind a car approaching a roundabout...it proceeded to go around the roundabout the wrong way and exit off the wrong lane. Driver looked bewildered when everyone was beeping the horn at him.

At another roundabout last week....I was in the right lane approaching it, van in left lane (which on this occasion was for only exiting left) van in left lane drives in front of me and drives right around the roundabout again. Hate roundabouts...good thing I don't live in Craigavon

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By *heoldhippyMan
over a year ago

Midleton

Its the idiots that refuse to use the left lane who really piss me off. A lot of them then insist on travelling at 90km/hr in 120 zones and refuse to let faster traffic past. Coming into Dublin from Limerick there might as well be only two lanes after Naas.

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