22 soldiers injured in M50 crash

RoyalMarine

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0318/rta1.html

anyone see it? anyone know any of the soliders involved?

bit of an insane announcement a few mins ago as they said they are asking all military transport around the country to stop for the mean time.

Krieg

Looks pretty crazy, Wonder what caused it?

Simon Devereux, Deputy General Secretary of PDFORRA, said the trucks had no safety devices such as seat belts and they want the military authorities to stop using the trucks until they are put in place.

For some reason I find it very difficult to imagine those trucks with seatbelts

Raspberry

Was it terrorists?

Voodu Child

Bunch of whingers. Shouldn't have joined the army if they didn't want to get hurt.

Random

It's not all military transport they want stopped, it's all transport in those trucks with no harness in them for the troops.

Bigger thread over here though - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055257344

Random

Raspberry wrote: »

Was it terrorists?

I hear a number of flights have been cancelled and most Dublin Bus services are delayed ...

connundrum

Thought it happened this morning? Newstalk were announcing it, and explaining that one or both northbound lanes at ballymun junction were closed.

Madness! One chap broke a leg, and there were a few neck and back injuries.

MrJoeSoap

Random news story of the day! About the only action they'll get.

Apparently the "procurememt" of seatbelts was in its early stages.

galwayrush

I hope none of the Army Personel goes Deaf as a result.:rolleyes:

Mr. CooL ICE

Form a coup! Quick! The boards.ie political party would reign terror among non-nerds!

Cloud for dictator/overlord/kaiser

muletide

galwayrush wrote: »

I hope none of the Army Personel goes Deaf as a result.:rolleyes:

I hope you can spell and form sentences by the time your Junior cert comes around.

jesus_thats_gre

lol ^^ genius

Run_to_da_hills

I thinks it is ridiculous to even allow all the Irish army travel together in one convoy. If this had been a worse accident it could have been a catastrophe and our defense forces could have been wiped out. There should be an enquiry about this.

muletide

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

I thinks it is ridiculous to even allow all the Irish army travel together in one convoy. If this had been a worse accident it could have been a catastrophe and our defense forces could have been wiped out. There should be an enquiry about this.

I hate it when I am in company and I attempt to make a joke but no one responds and then I have to try and repeat it to see if I get a reaction. Its a bit embarrassing.

Sort of like what you have done here and in your thread on the motors forum.

Why dont you chance the Military forum - I dont think you have tried it there yet

Sad

Run_to_da_hills

muletide wrote: »

Sort of like what you have done here and in your thread on the motors forum.

Not everyone drives a car :rolleyes:

Bob the Builder

even the army fool should obey the 2second rule... and then maybe they wouldn't collide as easily...

anthony4335

Why are people assuming that the PDF drivers were at fault for the accident?

Red Hand

The M50...equivalent to Vietnam for the Irish defense forces.

phantom_lord

anthony4335 wrote: »

Why are people assuming that the PDF drivers were at fault for the accident?

cause they were driving?

Saint_Mel

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

If this had been a worse accident it could have been a catastrophe and our defense forces could have been wiped out.

Imagine all the tea that would save!

WindSock

anthony4335 wrote: »

Why are people assuming that the PDF drivers were at fault for the accident?

Not leaving appropriate stopping distance, like so many thick fckers in this country.

slowharry

22 injured 44 compensation claims

Saint_Mel

slowharry wrote: »

22 injured 44 compensation claims

Some have gone deaf from the noise of the crash!

dodgyme

slowharry wrote: »

22 injured 44 compensation claims

yep apparently 22 injured and 105 released from hospital later last night.

Red Hand

I heard they were being pursued by 2 hungry Baloobas in a Ford Cortina. The guys crossed two lanes to get away in a panic.

mkdon05

i (friend of a friend) know one of the lads driving one of the trucks, said there was some bones protruding from the skin.

But i suppose its better than getting shot in real combat!

So the way to destroy our army is not by bombs or attacks or invasions. It's by building motorways everywhere.

Fratton Fred

dodgyme wrote: »

yep apparently 22 injured and 105 released from hospital later last night.

is that like the two seater Cessna that crashed into a cemetary?


so far 127 bodies have been recovered:D

Run_to_da_hills

Deleted User wrote: »

So the way to destroy our army is not by bombs or attacks or invasions. It's by building motorways everywhere.

That happened in Germany

John Mason

ah leave the poor army boys alone. some muppet on the M50 pulled out without checking his mirrors and failed to see the big green army convoy, at least we know the Camouflage will work when they head off to Chad

Run_to_da_hills

irishbird wrote: »

ah leave the poor army boys alone. some muppet on the M50 pulled out without checking his mirrors and failed to see the big green army convoy, at least we know the Camouflage will work when they head off to Chad

That will be the excuse when it gets to court, "sorry your honour, I didnt see them" The army should consider painting their trucks bright red so that they can be seen on the motorways

whassupp2

I was in one of these trucks before. The journey was about 45 mins long and i came out battered and bruised. I could not believ that in this day and age that thes trucks were still being used to transport soldiers.

Manic Moran

Well, Ireland can't afford to buy any more APCs, so what would you suggest?

Trucks tend to be a little more capable for military purposes than 30-seat busses, after all.

NTM

RoyalMarine

maybe now willie o D will be forced to buy the mowag's for everyone and get rid of these trucks.

to be honest, ive been on them a few times and they are a hazzard.

return guide

RoyalMarineComm wrote: »

maybe now willie o D will be forced to buy the mowag's for everyone and get rid of these trucks.

to be honest, ive been on them a few times and they are a hazzard.

Now behave, to put APCs on a major road just to transport a section or so,
why?

meathstevie

Those trucks mightn't be the hight of comfort but there's a reason for the configuration of them. Imagine the passengers are all wearing seatbelts say somewhere in Kosovo. Some Albanian or Serb lunatic with a medium-heavy machine gun decides to open up on one of these trucks..by the time the seatbelts would be of everyone in the truck would be dead or wounded.

Run_to_da_hills

meathstevie wrote: »

Those trucks mightn't be the hight of comfort but there's a reason for the configuration of them. Imagine the passengers are all wearing seatbelts say somewhere in Kosovo. Some Albanian or Serb lunatic with a medium-heavy machine gun decides to open up on one of these trucks..by the time the seatbelts would be of everyone in the truck would be dead or wounded.

I don't think you are going to get someone shooting at a truck full of Irish troops with a heavy machine gun on the M50 :rolleyes: I say put them in busses, Cie have plenty of old busses that could be painted up in olive drab and donated to them.

Manic Moran

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

I don't think you are going to get someone shooting at a truck full of Irish troops with a heavy machine gun on the M50 :rolleyes: I say put them in busses, Cie have plenty of old busses that could be painted up in olive drab and donated to them.

And who pays to have them serviced and maintained? Or to have soldiers trained in their servicing and maintenance, and even to go to bus-driving school? What you're asking for is an additional fleet of vehicles that the DF doesn't need to fulfil its function, but is an increased drain on its resources. DF have one or two coaches (For the band mainly, I think), but that's not as much a resource as fitting out enough busses for an entire Army to use, even on a centrally dispatched basis.

NTM

entropi

mkdon05 wrote: »

i (friend of a friend) know one of the lads driving one of the trucks, said there was some bones protruding from the skin.

My little bro was supposed to be going with those lads on their training exercise at the time that happened, turns out he was sent home from The Curragh earlier than expected, and the lads injured were from his barracks, Cathal Brugha.

The worst injury sustained was apparently only a dislocated shoulder...

Manic Moran

Manic Moran wrote: »

Well, Ireland can't afford to buy any more APCs, so what would you suggest?

Trucks tend to be a little more capable for military purposes than 30-seat busses, after all.

NTM

Would be quite funny though. The irish army turning up for war in a fleet of mini-buses.