M50 northbound is blocked completely due to a serious crash!

fletch

Emergency services are at the scene. Traffic is tailing back past Ballymount. The crash is also causing delays on the Naas Rd inbound - traffic is backed up to Newlands Cross from the Red Cow Roundabout. Motorists are advised to exit the M50 northbound before Tallaght to avoid major delays. On the M50 southbound traffic is busy but moving from Finglas to past Lucan. - source

daveirl

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Chris_533976

Well hopefully everyone involved is alright. Of course I bet the cause of the accident wasnt 'an accident' but 'stupidity'.

I dont mean to have another go, but if there was proper driver education I wonder how many of these seriously desruptive accidents on the most major road in the country would happen??

loyatemu

Chris_533976 wrote:

Well hopefully everyone involved is alright. Of course I bet the cause of the accident wasnt 'an accident' but 'stupidity'.

I dont mean to have another go, but if there was proper driver education I wonder how many of these seriously desruptive accidents on the most major road in the country would happen??

probably none - I've certainly never heard of any accidents occuring in other countries.

is_that_so

loyatemu wrote:

probably none - I've certainly never heard of any accidents occuring in other countries.

I was in Germany last year and the A5 to Stuttgart was blocked by a pileup which closed a section of it , so yes it does happen.

Alun

is_that_so wrote:

I was in Germany last year and the A5 to Stuttgart was blocked by a pileup which closed a section of it , so yes it does happen.

I think the previous poster forgot the /sarcasm tags

tabatha

there was a crash with a car and lorry. person in the car had to be cut out. pretty serious by all accounts. rubberneckers causing all the backups as usual.

Drax

tabatha wrote:

rubberneckers

Actually that reminds me - I was driving northbound between sandyford and the knocklyon exit yesterday - about half way up I see lots of brake lights illuminate. The car was almost stopped at one point due to the traffic slowing down. And the cause of it? A crash on the southbound lane. Nosey fecking rubberneckers!

Wishbone Ash

Drax wrote:

And the cause of it? A crash on the southbound lane. Nosey fecking rubberneckers!

How did you know? Did you do a bit of rubbernecking yourself?

Random

Why wouldn't they close a single lane on the other side and bring traffic over in situations like this?

Drax

Wishbone Ash wrote:

How did you know? Did you do a bit of rubbernecking yourself?

Haha - I knew someone would say something like this!. Yes I did look at it but only because the traffic was going so slow. I make a point of not slowing down if I can... I just couldn't believe how slow some people were willing to go to have a good old gander!