Poll on what causes accidents on the Irish Roads - please participate

andyr

Hello all. I have just finished producing a webpage to try and help getting
the message across to try and make people drive safer on the Irish roads and
I have added a poll on it to try and get an understanding (and let others
get an idea) of what people think is the major causes of road accidents and
road deaths. So if you have some time to spare will you please visit the
page: http://www.saferdriving.utvinternet.com/ and join in the poll if you
can. The more people that answer the questions should make the outcome more accurate - it will most probably just take 5 minutes to complete.

The page has some large photos on it and might be slow to download on an old 56k Dial up connection but on Broadband it should load fast.

Thank you and I do hope you can help out and answer the questions.

Andy.
www.saferdriving.utvinternet.com

Gurgle

Please change your tiled background image, its making me dizzy and makes it hard to read the page.

layke

I'm not answering it until there is an option for 'the government'.

mike65

I voted (reluctantly as its a badly worded poll) but really, this thread should be moved to webmasters.

Mike.

andyr

Gurgle wrote:

Please change your tiled background image, its making me dizzy and makes it hard to read the page.

I will try and make the background 'fainter' ........

andyr

layke wrote:

I'm not answering it until there is an option for 'the government'.

Change them in the next election??????

andyr

mike65 wrote:

I voted (reluctantly as its a badly worded poll) but really, this thread should be moved to webmasters.

Mike.

Yep sorry badly worded - a combination of the late hour of the night I produced it and being absolutely crap at English lessions in school...........

thebman

I think I ended up voting for almost everything.

road_high

Where is the inadequate and substandard roads one???-i.e. not poor surface, just poor and antiquated design with no hard shoulder and hair pin bends and no where to overtake; this would be top of my list anyway..

secret_squirrel

And you couldnt include a poll on this thread why exactly?

Since when has boards been a forum to whore your website?

My answer would be poor driver education, due to the laughable irish license system. ie its the govt's fault.

Idbatterim

yeah always the goverments fault, they do have a part to play in it, but ultimately it is the driver. look at those lunatics that killed themselves the other day, no ones fault but their own.

andyr

secret_squirrel wrote:

And you couldnt include a poll on this thread why exactly?

Since when has boards been a forum to whore your website?

Well i want to apologise - it seems I didn't read the rules properly . I didn't even know you had poll facility like this on Boards. I most probably am gonna get banned now or something. If I do i apologise again and thanks to everyone who has joined in the Poll on my website.

Andy.

andyr

Idbatterim wrote:

yeah always the goverments fault, they do have a part to play in it, but ultimately it is the driver. look at those lunatics that killed themselves the other day, no ones fault but their own.

Yes I don't think its right to blame the government for every thing ...... just most things!

One minute though the people say they don't want a Nanny State the next is that the public make up their own rules but then kick up a fuss when they are forced to do something because its got to such a bad state.

In other words if people continue to drink and drive, speed and drive dangerously one day the government will (may) come down hard with zero tolerance rules and then people wont be happy about that. Far better for people to wake up now and follow the rules and start driving better and legally before it gets to the state of zero tolerance.

Andy.

andyr

brim4brim wrote:

I think I ended up voting for almost everything.

Yes everything counts but I put what is the Major cause(s) - mind you then again I suppose everything can be a major cause

Andy.

r3nu4l

So far the majority seem to agree with me.

Drink/drug driving
Inexperienced drivers
Boy/girl racers
Failure to reduce speed according to weather and road conditions.

Yes sections of Irish roads are terrible but when you come to these sections you should bloody well slow down and 'take it handy there lad'.

The Government are doing something...albeit not quickly enough it seems. In the last few years the council have been taking the dangerous bends out of the Cahir to Clonmel road, badly needs to be done, so good to see it happening.

andyr

r3nu4l wrote:

So far the majority seem to agree with me.

Drink/drug driving
Inexperienced drivers
Boy/girl racers
Failure to reduce speed according to weather and road conditions.

Yes sections of Irish roads are terrible but when you come to these sections you should bloody well slow down and 'take it handy there lad'.

The Government are doing something...albeit not quickly enough it seems. In the last few years the council have been taking the dangerous bends out of the Cahir to Clonmel road, badly needs to be done, so good to see it happening.

There is very bad bend heading from Manorhamilton (Co. Leitrim) to Enniskillen the bend is at Glenfarne. There are 4 crosses and flowers laid out there for people who have lost their lives. There is not even an 'accident blackspot' sign and just a normal yellow bend sign there. I think where there is an extremely bad bend there should be a Red triangle sign depicting that its an extremely sharp and dangerous bend and more no overtaking signs.

I think those overtaking signs and the double white lines could be better enhanced by 'no overtaking' written under the signs and on the roads in white paint as well. - What happened to the 'Dead Slow' signs I used to see years ago I don't seem to have seen any of them for a while now.