Depending on who you ask this either points to the RSA being absolutely unnecessary or fantastically effective.
I’d like to know what’s gotten into Bulgarian drivers, if there are any left.
I’m going to Bulgaria next week, shitting it now
Because of the ads
Once got a taxi from the airport in Bulgaria on the way to Bansko.
Taxi was in bits, no working seatbelts, driver didn’t bother with his. Motorway was also in bad shape, driver tailgating the whole way, easily hitting 140km. The rocking and creaking of the taxi wasn’t reassuring either…
Entire generations traumatized by adverts.
A few here overthinking it. Go on a holiday in Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, Czech Republic etc. and get a taxi. They’re fucking insane. Much safer roads here.
One thing that helps is our motorway network is relatively new and built to a good standard overall
Also we have some motorways in particular that potentially never needed to be constructed as full motorway. Ones like the M9 or M18 or the M6 after athlone. So those wouldn’t have huge traffic volumes
Whoever had the idea for those ads needs to win an award. Lots of them even.
Worth highlighting that nobody has ever died on the Donegal motorway!
Fantastic achievement
Germany throwing a spaner in the works with the debate on speed. Obviously better roads and education win.
We’re good at something? Fuck yeah
Recently moved to Ireland and I have to say that Irish drivers are really courteous and law abiding, especially compared to South Africa. People keep to the speed limit, there is virtually no tailgating, they indicate if they want to turn, almost everyone gives you space if you need to change lanes, very little impatience. Your extremely narrow backroads do scare me a little I have to admit hehe.
Poland 140 😳
Yet people get their full licenses never being on, or even taught how to use motorways..
Better screw them on insurance
I’d love to know how many miles sorry Kms each country has of motorways?
Lovely to see that the actual speed limit has nothing to do with it. Population density on the other hand seems to be the culprit here.
We can’t afford to drive anymore because of fuel costs
Outside of Dublin there’s only about 5 people on Irish motorways. This makes very sad reading indeed.
well drive harder.
Relatively new motorways, relatively well maintained, with relatively light traffic, in particular freight. I’m just back from a holiday in Germany, and holy feck those autobahns are busy.
Listen, wasn’t Gay Byrne great. Sure he’s the best host the Late Late ever had, that Tubridy is as wooden in performance as his poxy puppet body, and Gaybo also helped us stop murdering each other on roads. A great lad altogether.
It’s good to see there’s no real correlation between speed and position on the graph
This is just motorways not side roads, main roads or back roads that get properly repaired in rural ireland
Also the smallest highway network, very few cities are connected by highways, half of the country has no highways. This surprised me a lot coming from Spain were the whole country is covered and can travel most of your journey anywhere on a highway.
It was the one without the seat belt that did the damage!
Anyone else remember that ad?
Is it misleading to measure it by 1000km ? Should it be measured by usage (how many km driven per year) ?
Tbf on the country roads is where the problem is
I’m in Portugal now and got into my friend’s car (local) in the back passenger seat. Of course I immediately put on my seatbelt and he says to me “oh that’s not required by law here, only the front seatbelts are. If it’s too uncomfortable, you don’t have to wear your seatbelt”. Funny enough I responded “Thanks to years of traumatising road safety tv adverts back home, I will always wear a seatbelt”. It’s fair to say the RSA achieved exactly what they intended. Credit where credit is due.
Once again we find ourselves at the bottom of an EU ranking
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Depending on who you ask this either points to the RSA being absolutely unnecessary or fantastically effective.
I’d like to know what’s gotten into Bulgarian drivers, if there are any left.
I’m going to Bulgaria next week, shitting it now
Because of the ads
Once got a taxi from the airport in Bulgaria on the way to Bansko.
Taxi was in bits, no working seatbelts, driver didn’t bother with his. Motorway was also in bad shape, driver tailgating the whole way, easily hitting 140km. The rocking and creaking of the taxi wasn’t reassuring either…
Entire generations traumatized by adverts.
A few here overthinking it. Go on a holiday in Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, Czech Republic etc. and get a taxi. They’re fucking insane. Much safer roads here.
One thing that helps is our motorway network is relatively new and built to a good standard overall
Also we have some motorways in particular that potentially never needed to be constructed as full motorway. Ones like the M9 or M18 or the M6 after athlone. So those wouldn’t have huge traffic volumes
Whoever had the idea for those ads needs to win an award. Lots of them even.
Worth highlighting that nobody has ever died on the Donegal motorway!
Fantastic achievement
Germany throwing a spaner in the works with the debate on speed. Obviously better roads and education win.
We’re good at something? Fuck yeah
Recently moved to Ireland and I have to say that Irish drivers are really courteous and law abiding, especially compared to South Africa. People keep to the speed limit, there is virtually no tailgating, they indicate if they want to turn, almost everyone gives you space if you need to change lanes, very little impatience. Your extremely narrow backroads do scare me a little I have to admit hehe.
Poland 140 😳
Yet people get their full licenses never being on, or even taught how to use motorways..
Better screw them on insurance
I’d love to know how many miles sorry Kms each country has of motorways?
Lovely to see that the actual speed limit has nothing to do with it. Population density on the other hand seems to be the culprit here.
We can’t afford to drive anymore because of fuel costs
Outside of Dublin there’s only about 5 people on Irish motorways. This makes very sad reading indeed.
well drive harder.
Relatively new motorways, relatively well maintained, with relatively light traffic, in particular freight. I’m just back from a holiday in Germany, and holy feck those autobahns are busy.
Listen, wasn’t Gay Byrne great. Sure he’s the best host the Late Late ever had, that Tubridy is as wooden in performance as his poxy puppet body, and Gaybo also helped us stop murdering each other on roads. A great lad altogether.
It’s good to see there’s no real correlation between speed and position on the graph
This is just motorways not side roads, main roads or back roads that get properly repaired in rural ireland
Also the smallest highway network, very few cities are connected by highways, half of the country has no highways. This surprised me a lot coming from Spain were the whole country is covered and can travel most of your journey anywhere on a highway.
It was the one without the seat belt that did the damage!
Anyone else remember that ad?
Is it misleading to measure it by 1000km ? Should it be measured by usage (how many km driven per year) ?
Tbf on the country roads is where the problem is
I’m in Portugal now and got into my friend’s car (local) in the back passenger seat. Of course I immediately put on my seatbelt and he says to me “oh that’s not required by law here, only the front seatbelts are. If it’s too uncomfortable, you don’t have to wear your seatbelt”. Funny enough I responded “Thanks to years of traumatising road safety tv adverts back home, I will always wear a seatbelt”. It’s fair to say the RSA achieved exactly what they intended. Credit where credit is due.
Once again we find ourselves at the bottom of an EU ranking
Worth noting the “per 1000 km” gives significantly different results to “per capita” – [https://transport.ec.europa.eu/news/preliminary-2021-eu-road-safety-statistics-2022-03-28_en](https://transport.ec.europa.eu/news/preliminary-2021-eu-road-safety-statistics-2022-03-28_en)