What County has the worst drivers?

japasca

Do you always come across bad drivers from the same county? I know i do!
Please nominate which county in Ireland has the worst drivers in your opinion?
Some reasons as to why your nominating them are welcome!?

I'll get the ball rolling with TN or TS drivers!
They seem to think the speed limit is 75kmph on the open road and 60kmph through towns. They never indicate correctly or have all their lights working! Idiots!! :mad:

craichoe

How do you know their from Tipperary ?

I had a Dublin reg and i was living in Cork and from Cork.

I should have been weaving all over the place .. give the dublin langers a bad name

TwoShedsJackson

Donegal. They're practically in your boot 95% of the time and the other 5% of the time they're overtaking you on some boreen that is barely wide enough for two cows to get past each other.

michaelanthony

Meath. MH cars drive aggressively in dublin more so than any other county registration.

japasca

craichoe wrote: »

How do you know their from Tipperary ?

I realise there is a large margin for error here!
However Most of the time its because there in a TN reg 1987 Nissan Sunny, driving in Tipperary and there is a look of general mucksavage from them!

GHGW

Co Clare without a doubt!!! I drive about 35K a year around Ireland and I have never seen such bad drivers since I moved to Clare.

Tailgating
Full beams at night while approcahing
Incorrect aligned lights
Worn tyres
Damaging cars in car parks and driving off
Driving in wrong land or in centre of road
Weaving
Speeding
Tailgating a truck with no intention of passing

My car has over 1500 of body damage from tipperary and clare car parks in only the last 7 months before that I drove it on mainly the east coast for 2 years without a mark on it.

I even know who damaged my car and where they live but Gardai cant do a thing as no CCTV proof.

Cant wait to get the hell out of here and back to the safety of the East Coast roads.

R

The list goes on and in second place Tipperary.

yop

Roscommon, drive too slow, pull out in front of you, overtake in daft places, never indicate

confuzed

second vote for donegal. roads are narrow with lots of blind spots. And they drive high beam that makes you blind at blind spots.:eek:

_feedback_

bit of a ridiculous thread as it's all just complete generalisations!! From my experience, the best drivers in the country would be in Dublin. Think it's because it's a fairly pressured place to drive in and you need to be on the ball. I'm what you might class as a culchie, by the way.

L1011

I've found the *N and *O plates the worst for driving slowly, erratically (speed up, slow down, speed up, slow down - making it impossible to overtake), weaving, lack of use of indicators, etc. Odd that it makes up the majority of the border counties, that.

As goes DL, we drive too fast. Significantly too fast...

Our man in Havana

GHGW wrote: »

Co Clare without a doubt!!! I drive about 35K a year around Ireland and I have never seen such bad drivers since I moved to Clare.

Tailgating
Full beams at night while approcahing
Incorrect aligned lights
Worn tyres
Damaging cars in car parks and driving off
Driving in wrong land or in centre of road
Weaving
Speeding
Tailgating a truck with no intention of passing

My car has over 1500 of body damage from tipperary and clare car parks in only the last 7 months before that I drove it on mainly the east coast for 2 years without a mark on it.

I even know who damaged my car and where they live but Gardai cant do a thing as no CCTV proof.

Cant wait to get the hell out of here and back to the safety of the East Coast roads.

R

The list goes on and in second place Tipperary.

Agree 100% with you. Suicidal the lot of them.

JHMEG

Drivers from Northern Ireland when they visit our country. They know they can't get points and will act the tit when they're here.

timemachine

Without doubt its Dublin.

AckwelFoley

Donegal.

Potential-Monke

timemachine wrote: »

Without doubt its Dublin.

I second that.

[generalisation] From my experience, Dublin drivers are way too cocky and over-confident. [/generalisation]

[fairly accurate generalisation] Anyone from any county that drives BMW's or Mercs, they seem to think they own the road! [/fairly accurate generalisation]

With regards to my second generalisation, there was a study carried out on drivers of BMW's and Mercedes' to see if they were the worst drivers, and it found that they are over-confident because they think that their cars are so safe because of all the "safety" features it has. Unfortunately, and some might say conveniently, i can't find a link to the survey/study.

A different survey
Here's an interesting yet probably incorrect read...

Seth Brundle

In no particular order:
Eastern Europeans
Nigerians & other Africans
Norn Irish
All Irish provisional licence holders
All Irish licence holders
Everyone else

All of these can be found in all counties, so Im generalising that all drivers are the worst!

Run_to_da_hills

Dublin drivers without a doubt, i.e for common courtesy and South Dublin at that .

philiy

Im going to nominate an area. Well two areas. Portmarnock and Malahide. Its full of idiots that dont indicate, take the extrem right of the road when turning left at the top of a one way street, slam on the brakes every 3 seconds, park their cars like a$$holes, stop in the middle of a busy street to let someone out of the car, do the scandinavian flick when they are turning corners........the list goes on and on..........

RobAMerc

JHMEG wrote: »

Drivers from Northern Ireland when they visit our country. They know they can't get points and will act the tit when they're here.

I am confused - is Northern Ireland not part of our country?

I find eastern Europeans aren't actually bad drivers - they just don't obey the rules - they generally get it though which I can say for 95% of Irish drivers.

Dub's are the worst - right lane hoggin happens worst in or around the capital more so than on motorways further away from it.

colsers22

I am from Westmeath and I'd have to say Westmeath..
They are brutal. They NEVER indicate in town, they rarely bother to dim their headlights and seem to get off on blinding people. They overtake in dangerous places on tiny roads and they speed.

javaboy

Statistics point to Dublin. If we have +100,000 D registrations a year, then it stands to reason most of the worst drivers will be here.


Either that or Leitrim, cos nobody will admit to being from there to stand up for themselves!

JHMEG

RobAMerc wrote: »

I am confused - is Northern Ireland not part of our country?

No, it's part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. They have a different flag and carry different passports.

We don't have any stake or claim over it, and it hasn't been part of "our country" since 1920.

Our man in Havana

We don't have any stake or claim over it, and it hasn't been part of "our country" since 1920.

I dare you to post that on the politics forum.

Celtic07

Where im from Carlow the pass rate is 42 per cent. Im waiting to do my test. Anyone know where to get the smaller version l plates as the bigger ones are a pain

Cionád

Celtic07 wrote: »

Where im from Carlow the pass rate is 42 per cent. Im waiting to do my test. Anyone know where to get the smaller version l plates as the bigger ones are a pain

The smaller ones are not legal, and you will fail the driving test if you show up with them on.

L1011

Celtic07 wrote: »

Where im from Carlow the pass rate is 42 per cent. Im waiting to do my test. Anyone know where to get the smaller version l plates as the bigger ones are a pain

The plates are a mandated size, so anything else isn't legal. May as well not have them...

Put them on the outside of the windows and they intrude less due to overlapping the frames...

Zonda999

In my area it has to be the Kerry drivers.F**ckin speedfreaks.Thats just my two cents

AckwelFoley

RobAMerc wrote: »

I am confused - is Northern Ireland not part of our country?

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No, its part of the United Kingdom last time i checked.

Seth Brundle

JHMEG wrote: »

No, it's part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. They have a different flag and carry different passports.

We don't have any stake or claim over it, and it hasn't been part of "our country" since 1920.

DOes the Good Friday Agreement not mean anything?
I better tell my wife's family that their Irish passports are void!
Anyway, this is a motors forum so lets get back on topic.

JHMEG

kbannon wrote: »

DOes the Good Friday Agreement not mean anything?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but as part of the GFA didn't we relinquish any claim (arts 2 & 3) we had? (Not that it meant anything anyway) Under the GFA we all agreed NI is quite clearly part of the United Kingdom.

Like NI, a minority of people in the USA can carry Irish passports under certain circumstances. It doesn't make the USA part of the Republic of Ireland.

Your wife's family can be Irish, but that doesn't make NI part of our country.

IanOCol

Having returned to Ireland 2 years ago after living with my parents in Austria and Germany (where I did my driving test) I say: all of the country.

As long as there's no proper training for drivers in Ireland BEFORE someone's allowed in a car or on a bike, there will be no decent driving.

I had to do 25 hrs of practical and 18 hrs of theoretical training for each car and bike......and failed my first attempt.
So it was back to learning abit more (10/5hrs) and I got the licence at last.
I felt save and confident enough to to German autobahns and going through the Uk with no problems for 4 years.
But over here, they've frightened the sh*t out of me. Morons in cars.
If there were decent public transport, I would never ever drive again in my country of birth.
Every bloke from Poland/Latvia/Lithuania drives better than most of the Irish. It should be compulsary to do 10hrs of rush hour driving in Paris for us here. 90% of the licences would be revoked and driving a lot more safer

corcaigh07

i was in dublin for the rugby yesterday, amazed by the lack of indicating and full of right lane hogging on dual carriageways/motorways. taxi drivers also seem more insane!

javaboy

corcaigh07 wrote: »

i was in dublin for the rugby yesterday, amazed by the lack of indicating and full of right lane hogging on dual carriageways/motorways. taxi drivers also seem more insane!

"taxi drivers also seem more insane!" -- I love the way it's just universally accepted that taxi drivers are all insane, but in Dublin they're more insane!

wil

Absolutely agree, took this paddy minutes after arriving back here to realise I was in the wild west safety-wise. Coming from the safest driving country to one of the most dangerous takes a lot of the joy out of driving. And it had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH SPEED. I was able to drive way faster and safely in the UK than here.
In the UK you could pinpoint certain categories of bad drivers, here it is pretty much across the board, with very few even reaching the lowest standard of UK driver.

As for Eastern Europeans, just like me, they end up un-learning how to drive here. After some years driving here, my driving is undoubtedly poorer than when I was a inexperienced driver in the UK, dragged down by the general poor attitude and skills of those around me. We have a long way to go before we even even compare with mature driving countries like Germany, UK or Sweden, or even Italy or France where despite apparently manic driving, their skill and anticipation puts the majority of Irish drivers to shame.

IanOCol wrote: »

Having returned to Ireland 2 years ago after living with my parents in Austria and Germany (where I did my driving test) I say: all of the country.

As long as there's no proper training for drivers in Ireland BEFORE someone's allowed in a car or on a bike, there will be no decent driving.

I had to do 25 hrs of practical and 18 hrs of theoretical training for each car and bike......and failed my first attempt.
So it was back to learning abit more (10/5hrs) and I got the licence at last.
I felt save and confident enough to to German autobahns and going through the Uk with no problems for 4 years.
But over here, they've frightened the sh*t out of me. Morons in cars.
If there were decent public transport, I would never ever drive again in my country of birth.
Every bloke from Poland/Latvia/Lithuania drives better than most of the Irish. It should be compulsary to do 10hrs of rush hour driving in Paris for us here. 90% of the licences would be revoked and driving a lot more safer

lightening

Rudest and worst drivers are in Galway, much easier to merge or change lane in Dublin, most drivers will let you change lane in front of them. Galway drivers will drive up the cars arse in front to make sure the indicating driver won't get in to the lane.

unkel

My experience is the same as what wil and IanOCol posted...

WHITE_P

see http://www.roaddeaths.ie/map.php?do=year&year=2007

biko

lightening wrote: »

Rudest and worst drivers are in Galway

Yeah, Galway drivers can be pretty bad alright, although each province poses a different problem. For instance road rage in the East vs roundabout craziness in the West. That's why I use a D regged car, so the Jacks get the blame when I do something bad

Interesting link WHITE_P