Local graveyard had a car drive right through a wall after some eejits thought drink driving after a wedding was good.
Are there statistics/info from RSA or whoever that show what causes the deaths? Have read something before that about a third involve speed, a third alcohol/drugs, and the rest are mostly just people not paying attention or otherwise driving carelessly. Or maybe a small number with weather as a contributory factor. I often think again about a particularly bad one, or something that happened locally, but can never seem to find the info on what caused them. Unless there is an inquest that’s made public.
We had very low deaths to begin with, so this, while technically true, is misleading.
OFC it’s not a good thing, but it’s not as bad as it looks.
We have one of the lower number of road deaths in the eu
Few things to blame I think…….
Phones are a disaster in cars, even on one of those handheld things- you still take your eyes and concentration off when you look at the phone.
Awful drivers are another reason (some who are new to the roads here and some Irish drivers who just do no give a shIt)
Scumbags joyriding and killing a pedestrian/themselves.
Pedestrians with headphones in wandering in front of traffic.
Escooters and ebikes flying around everywhere by people who have no concept of how the roads work.
Lack of gardai on the road leading more people to take a chance.
Single lane country roads where lads bomb around the place.
Donegal!!!!
All of this combined = more deaths.
sincerely, some people drive ahead when it’s red light
Simple really, we had Gardai enforcing the rules, this combined with improved laws and roads, introduction of the NCT and good campaigns to change behaviour had a massive effect.
Take away policing and it all goes to shit, Government need to resource roads policing, not just dick around with signeage for the publicity, it needs money.
Look one road death is too many but instead of looking at the percentage increase year on year, have you thought about looking at the number of deaths per million people across the eu? Because you’d soon realise we’re actually doing pretty well…
People have been taking red lights as suggestions since the onset of Covid. Crazy driving altogether.
What’s the solution here? Is it driver training, road conditions or lack of policing? All of the above?
We need to start banning cars. An auto-lockdown should contain these numbers!
They need to bring back the traumatic rsa adds on the telly
It’s probably down to the narrow bendy country roads..they’re so dangerous
How is that stat calculated though? I know things like Murder Rates are calculated based on the ratio of deaths per 1,000 people; thus giving you a better sense of percentages relative to the size of the country. An increase in 31% might look terrible, but is that a total number or something based on a per 1,000 people? I think there’s more context needed here.
Roads are busier too, people being impatient, taking chances and pulling out into oncoming traffic.
This is not a good trend however the graph does not show that Irelands roads are still the safest in Europe bar 2 or 3 countries.
The roads are feck all
Should have kept up those grim adverts
I wonder if they hike up insurance, tax, and make driving test waiting lists even longer will this further improve the results?
Instead of an interview with the local priest who explains how devastated the community is, I’d rather find out the actual cause of the accident. Learn something from it.
Was it really speed or just the pure inability to control a motor vehicle? Or the inability to read the road?
Is that per head of population? I’m just wondering because Ireland a small country. That means a smaller amount overall. So a small change can be a huge percentage.
BTW, I’m obviously not playing it down. It’s a serious issue but figures can be interpreted in a number of ways.
Let’s see Donegal’s stats
20 years ago when the number of deaths was still well over 300 a year the Garda did actually make themselves known on the roads. Now they are invisible. You can drive across Ireland and not see a car on duty until you get into the town or city you arrive at.
All those poor roads dying before their time. 5 EVA IN R HATS.
Some rural roads are so dangerous. Narrow with blind bends and the speed limit is 80. Awful particularly after heavy rain because you can’t even see the fucking enormous pot holes that are sprinkled all over the place. Then uncut hedges on top of it all and sign posts with directions literally on top of the turn you’re supposed to take. Signposting is dreadful here.
Phones. Its phones. All the time
Ok, now look at actual deaths per captia or per million. Looking at change tells you nothing.
Useless image without context.
The below is just 2020 but it gives you an idea of where everyones base is.
For 22, we were at 31 while the EU average was at 46.
Having driven abroad a bit I still see roughly on average the same quantity of shite driving maybe better lane discipline abroad but what mainly stands out to me in ireland is distracted driving. It does seem worse over here.
You get the same amount of gobshites and shit driving on the continent (some times worse especially on round abouts) but it seems intentional and aggressive entitlement rather than cluelessness.
Driving rural roads in ireland in particular seeing people speed around blind bends cutting corners and you can tell by the head on them they are away in fairyland day dreaming or on the phone.
Ever since the first school run after the first lockdown, roads where never the same.
Drivers minds broke
But but but…. speeding……
Interesting to see such a cyclist friendly country like Holland right there beside us on the chart
I wonder why it would be this bad in Ireland compared to other countries.
People say new drivers, phones, teenagers, tourists, etc, but other countries have the same issues.
What I suspect is:
tourism with the entire continent driving on the right lane
Super exigent Drivers test which push people to be super afraid of it and just keep driving on learning permit forever.
Absurdly long waiting list for a test, which again force people to drive without full license and experience.
And most of all, narrow country roads with locals flying through it (they know it well but still dangerous)
Any other reasons?
Every new car now has a big iPad in the middle of the console. Turning on your radio or heating is touch screen driven.
It’s like everyone now is required to be looking and tapping at a screen in the car. It’s even worse than looking at your phone screen.
How any safety authority ever let that happen in cars is beyond me. Might as well have handed every driver a mobile phone and said here play with that all day while you are driving and you have no choice.
I’m sick of seeing people on their phones in cars, it’s not people having a split second look either, it’s people looking away from the road for long periods. It’s ridiculous!
No surprise in this. A lot of people in Ireland won’t even stop at stop signs or red lights these days.
No traffic police or at least it’s a very very rare sight, no enforcement.
Cabbages out the roads tailgating speeding, no indication, overtaking dangerously. Lately, the roads are just full of dumb ass mofos.
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And we’re worse again this year.
I guess I should stop driving blindfolded.
Local graveyard had a car drive right through a wall after some eejits thought drink driving after a wedding was good.
Are there statistics/info from RSA or whoever that show what causes the deaths? Have read something before that about a third involve speed, a third alcohol/drugs, and the rest are mostly just people not paying attention or otherwise driving carelessly. Or maybe a small number with weather as a contributory factor. I often think again about a particularly bad one, or something that happened locally, but can never seem to find the info on what caused them. Unless there is an inquest that’s made public.
We had very low deaths to begin with, so this, while technically true, is misleading.
[https://www.statista.com/statistics/323869/international-and-uk-road-deaths/](https://www.statista.com/statistics/323869/international-and-uk-road-deaths/)
OFC it’s not a good thing, but it’s not as bad as it looks.
We have one of the lower number of road deaths in the eu
Few things to blame I think…….
Phones are a disaster in cars, even on one of those handheld things- you still take your eyes and concentration off when you look at the phone.
Awful drivers are another reason (some who are new to the roads here and some Irish drivers who just do no give a shIt)
Scumbags joyriding and killing a pedestrian/themselves.
Pedestrians with headphones in wandering in front of traffic.
Escooters and ebikes flying around everywhere by people who have no concept of how the roads work.
Lack of gardai on the road leading more people to take a chance.
Single lane country roads where lads bomb around the place.
Donegal!!!!
All of this combined = more deaths.
sincerely, some people drive ahead when it’s red light
Simple really, we had Gardai enforcing the rules, this combined with improved laws and roads, introduction of the NCT and good campaigns to change behaviour had a massive effect.
Take away policing and it all goes to shit, Government need to resource roads policing, not just dick around with signeage for the publicity, it needs money.
Look one road death is too many but instead of looking at the percentage increase year on year, have you thought about looking at the number of deaths per million people across the eu? Because you’d soon realise we’re actually doing pretty well…
[road deaths Europe ](https://transport.ec.europa.eu/news-events/news/2023-figures-show-stalling-progress-reducing-road-fatalities-too-many-countries-2024-03-08_en)
People have been taking red lights as suggestions since the onset of Covid. Crazy driving altogether.
What’s the solution here? Is it driver training, road conditions or lack of policing? All of the above?
We need to start banning cars. An auto-lockdown should contain these numbers!
They need to bring back the traumatic rsa adds on the telly
It’s probably down to the narrow bendy country roads..they’re so dangerous
How is that stat calculated though? I know things like Murder Rates are calculated based on the ratio of deaths per 1,000 people; thus giving you a better sense of percentages relative to the size of the country. An increase in 31% might look terrible, but is that a total number or something based on a per 1,000 people? I think there’s more context needed here.
Roads are busier too, people being impatient, taking chances and pulling out into oncoming traffic.
This is not a good trend however the graph does not show that Irelands roads are still the safest in Europe bar 2 or 3 countries.
The roads are feck all
Should have kept up those grim adverts
I wonder if they hike up insurance, tax, and make driving test waiting lists even longer will this further improve the results?
Instead of an interview with the local priest who explains how devastated the community is, I’d rather find out the actual cause of the accident. Learn something from it.
Was it really speed or just the pure inability to control a motor vehicle? Or the inability to read the road?
Is that per head of population? I’m just wondering because Ireland a small country. That means a smaller amount overall. So a small change can be a huge percentage.
BTW, I’m obviously not playing it down. It’s a serious issue but figures can be interpreted in a number of ways.
Let’s see Donegal’s stats
20 years ago when the number of deaths was still well over 300 a year the Garda did actually make themselves known on the roads. Now they are invisible. You can drive across Ireland and not see a car on duty until you get into the town or city you arrive at.
All those poor roads dying before their time. 5 EVA IN R HATS.
Some rural roads are so dangerous. Narrow with blind bends and the speed limit is 80. Awful particularly after heavy rain because you can’t even see the fucking enormous pot holes that are sprinkled all over the place. Then uncut hedges on top of it all and sign posts with directions literally on top of the turn you’re supposed to take. Signposting is dreadful here.
Phones. Its phones. All the time
Ok, now look at actual deaths per captia or per million. Looking at change tells you nothing.
Useless image without context.
The below is just 2020 but it gives you an idea of where everyones base is.
For 22, we were at 31 while the EU average was at 46.
So ah lads yourself
https://preview.redd.it/1rj6gbv1e3ed1.png?width=705&format=png&auto=webp&s=10de895f6f80a26771ce4579c83eed6d1287bf9d
Having driven abroad a bit I still see roughly on average the same quantity of shite driving maybe better lane discipline abroad but what mainly stands out to me in ireland is distracted driving. It does seem worse over here.
You get the same amount of gobshites and shit driving on the continent (some times worse especially on round abouts) but it seems intentional and aggressive entitlement rather than cluelessness.
Driving rural roads in ireland in particular seeing people speed around blind bends cutting corners and you can tell by the head on them they are away in fairyland day dreaming or on the phone.
https://preview.redd.it/p6iwsp44e3ed1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=be2c08cca66a358c8f20fdfc5de25e179074969b
Ever since the first school run after the first lockdown, roads where never the same.
Drivers minds broke
But but but…. speeding……
Interesting to see such a cyclist friendly country like Holland right there beside us on the chart
I wonder why it would be this bad in Ireland compared to other countries.
People say new drivers, phones, teenagers, tourists, etc, but other countries have the same issues.
What I suspect is:
tourism with the entire continent driving on the right lane
Super exigent Drivers test which push people to be super afraid of it and just keep driving on learning permit forever.
Absurdly long waiting list for a test, which again force people to drive without full license and experience.
And most of all, narrow country roads with locals flying through it (they know it well but still dangerous)
Any other reasons?
Every new car now has a big iPad in the middle of the console. Turning on your radio or heating is touch screen driven.
It’s like everyone now is required to be looking and tapping at a screen in the car. It’s even worse than looking at your phone screen.
How any safety authority ever let that happen in cars is beyond me. Might as well have handed every driver a mobile phone and said here play with that all day while you are driving and you have no choice.
I’m sick of seeing people on their phones in cars, it’s not people having a split second look either, it’s people looking away from the road for long periods. It’s ridiculous!
No surprise in this. A lot of people in Ireland won’t even stop at stop signs or red lights these days.
No traffic police or at least it’s a very very rare sight, no enforcement.
Cabbages out the roads tailgating speeding, no indication, overtaking dangerously. Lately, the roads are just full of dumb ass mofos.