Headlines wrong way around?

fatherdougalmag

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aidan_walsh

Obviously not. Ask RTE if it bothers you.

Vorsprung

Think it's upto 11 now...:(

padi89

The road deaths are very unfortunate to have happened but it has been spread out over the last few days so its more of an update than a headline .I dont think they are prioritising(forgive spelling) the bombings over the deaths here ,its just the big story of the day.

Mossy Monk

Headlines wrong way around?

fatherdougalmag

My point is the rhetoric behind the posting of these deaths on our roads. As if it's going to do any good. I won't say it hasn't made any difference (you could argue that if it wasn't in the headlines at all there'd be more carnage). They might as well be posting the deaths from road crashses from a different country. Does anyone pay attentions?

Mossy Monk

probably wont make a difference but it is important to know what is going on in your country

steviec

A bombing or murder will always make a bigger headline than an accident.

Someone being injured during a bank robber will be ahead of 100 people dying in their sleep.

With a bombing there's perpetrators and victims and motives to be discussed, with an accident there's some random variable that went wrong from a bump on the road to something being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Obviously there's road safety issues to be discussed at a national level but its not the same kind of direct news headline that a murder is.

fatherdougalmag

Well, when/if somone's father/mother/brother/sisister/son/daughter/friend is subject to a fatal road accident or is injured as a being a part to one, I hope they will find some solace in the "something being in the wrong place at the wrong time"/sh1t happens rationale will get them through the grieving process.

It seems that as long as there's something or someone else to blame, people can just carry on and blame the pothole/incorrect speed limit and absolve themseolves of anything that might happen. Every-day drivers, should feel responsilbe for other people on the road. When I go out driving, I don't fear for my own life. I fear for the damage that I might do to someone else because of some other "random variable". If everybody looked out for everybody else, that could make a real difference.

My wife (then fiancée) taught me to drive and the one rule that sticks with me is that you probably won't kill yourself in a car, it's some other gob****e that'll do it to you and our kids.

So it seems plain to me, that if we all drove (and were taught to drive defensively) the roads would be a safer place.

Remember the most recent ad's for driving related accidents? One of them was about a group of young people simply going out for a drive. The other one was some bloke driving along singing along to some ****e song and ending up in someone's back garden.

Now, how realistic is that? They harp on about how much it's to do with drink and driving. How many new reports do you hear about a bloke driving home on a Sat/Sun morning after a game of football and a couple of roast joints/pints inside him ploughing into someone's back garden doing a kid in? Zero. In fact, the ad with the group of young people in the car "the person without the seatbelt did the most damage"-ad is on shoutwire.com. Some of them are saying "if only these ads were shown in our country". You shouldn't need to rely on an ad or police to enforce this stuff. It's up to society to practice this stuff.

You wake up on a Sat/Sun weekend morning and you're almost bound to hear about someone involved in a single-vehicle collision (almost invariably with an inanimate object) or some other Joe/Josephine short-changed in the life stakes because of some other eejit. I'll admit, I'm generalising but it's not all down to bumps in the road and other factors. A lot of it is down to us looking out for other people. It's not all about slowing down, it's not all about bad road conditions. And if people knew the difference between a good road and a bad road, they'd take more care about driving on a bad road instead of whinging about bad road conditions and driving wrecklessly on them anyway.

So the point of my OP wasn't that RTE consider malicious acts of violence and the associated deat toll more than our national road death toll. My point was that we can do something about ours by being more considerate to our fellow road users and not just looking out for ourselves.

"There's bound to be some gib****e around the corner.". That should be on the reverse side of the L plate. Mind you, some people need lessons on how to put an L plate up. Now that doesn't inspire confidence.

fatherdougalmag

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