Gardaí catch over 260 drivers using their phones while driving in 24-hour period [over 21,500 last year]

by badger-biscuits

25 comments

  2. if they were paying attention to any stretch of motorway they’d have their 260 peple within 1 hour, not 24!

  3. When I’m stopped in traffic I instantly get the urge to check my phone. I am full addict.

  4. It feels every second driver is using one while driving, which is ridiculous of course. There should be much harsher punishment for phone use, more than exceeding speed limit by 5 – 10%

  6. Need to hike the penalty points for clowns that do this to about 8.

    It’s so prevalent

  7. Anyone using their phone while driving should just lose their licence. Would immediately put a stop to this and reduce road deaths in one fell swoop.

    Like drink driving, no excuse.

  8. I walked past a line of cars stopped at the lights, 19 out of 20 cars had the driver checking their phone while stopped

  9. Great. Keep it up. And do parents of kids with no seatbelts next.

  10. They need to have harsher penalties, no text message nor doom scroll is worth someones safety. I cycle in Dublin city and I would say nearly every 3/4 cars someone is on the phone, driving or sitting in traffic. Between that and breaking red lights it is incredibly dangerous!

  11. Size the phone and destroy them at the side of the road…

  12. Sure if no one did anything wrong on the roads those lads’d be outa a job

  13. I passed 3 in a row on their phones on the M11 yesterday

  14. Saw a delivery driver watching a TV series on his phone that was placed in the dashboard blocking the guages, I just can’t understand the need to have a screen on your eyes at all times, do people not know podcasts and shit exist, I’m not massive on them but in the car they are great.

  15. Would be great if they could also catch 260 robbers in a 24 hour period.

  16. I’m not excusing the behaviour, and I don’t use my phone when driving, but I think it’s a vicious circle. Dublin is one of the most congested cities in Europe. That means that people are left waiting behind the wheel a lot. They get bored and check their phones. Then they miss traffic lights, increasing their waiting time, so they continue checking their phones…

    If the traffic were fluid, there would be a lot fewer offenders.

    That’s my 2 cents.

  18. You should lose your licence instantly like drink driving if you are caught (with evidence). There’s no need for it and it will save lives

  19. Those numbers suck. It ever 2rd driver in traffic. Every 5th otherwise.

  21. The worst are the idiots that completely zone out at traffic lights and take multiple seconds to drive when the light goes green when there are other cars behind them. I’ve just started beeping everyone who doesn’t start driving within 1 second of a green light because I’m so sick of how slow Irish people seem to be off the mark. You should be in first gear, ready to go when you’re the first/second car at the lights and not hold others up.

    Nothing you are looking at or doing on your phone is important enough to be doing it while driving. If it is, you shouldn’t be driving.

  22. It’s just becoming a joke: if you drive in a long stretch of clear road past a traffic convoy on the other side you can see the general gist of how bad it is… maybe J.G. Ballard was right… the human has a sort of fetish for the crash; and a predelection with these new behavioural modification networks

  23. Good News – theres a Bluetooth Adaptor for phones on Amazon for under €20 – sticks into the cigarette lighter socket – surely much cheaper than a fine or a car crash ?

    The law is that you can not have the phone in your hand – so you can have the phone on a holder and use bluetooth etc.

  25. I use my phone as a Sat NAV, using Google Maps. It’s on a phone mount just above the radio controls. I don’t touch it while driving, I pull in if I need to adjust something. I don’t touch it in traffic or at traffic lights either.

    Is this allowed ? Is there a website with clearly defined rules on this issue ?

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