Driving in bad conditions

Spudzz

I just could not believe the amount of people driving around Cork City and surrounding areas this morning without there lights on ,what do they be thinking of in all that rain and cloud cover.:eek:
Was driving down Center Park Road "and that road is dark at the best of time" and I would say every second car did not have there lights on,it is suicidal in my eyes.

Denisejcc

Agreed! Crazy stuff, I drive with my lights on all the time day or night (not the spot lights though, the muppets that do that wreck my head!) :rolleyes:

anon11

Daytime driving lights will be compulsary on every car by around 2011

homer90

anon11 wrote: »

Daytime driving lights will be compulsary on every car by around 2011

On every 'new' car by 2011. . .

EPM

was madness today with poor visibility. A car in front of me had a very close call with a car that came out of a slip road purely because it wasn't at all visible when on a clear day it would have been easier to spot

Gunth

These are the same drivers who are useless on dry days so they deteriorate further on a wet day. You know who you are(followed by evil laugh). They are probably not on Boards though!

slimjimmc

Spudzz wrote: »

I just could not believe the amount of people driving around Cork City and surrounding areas this morning without there lights on ,what do they be thinking of in all that rain and cloud cover.:eek:
Was driving down Center Park Road "and that road is dark at the best of time" and I would say every second car did not have there lights on,it is suicidal in my eyes.

Up in the Pale's N7 I see cars doing 110kph+ bumper to bumper in all weathers. I can't understand why they drive so close at the best of times never mind today's rainy conditions where visbility was so very poor due to all the spray. Perhaps they do it just to see if the car in front is still there

The_Conductor

7 O'Clock this evening- there were cars going in the Dublin direction on the M4 without any rear lights (and traffic merging without lights at all from the Maynooth and Leixlip slips)........

We really badly need a traffic police force to implement the rules of the road- and stop these people who appear to have a death wish.......

EPM

we have them...just nowhere near enough of them

Del2005

smccarrick wrote: »

7 O'Clock this evening- there were cars going in the Dublin direction on the M4 without any rear lights (and traffic merging without lights at all from the Maynooth and Leixlip slips)........

We really badly need a traffic police force to implement the rules of the road- and stop these people who appear to have a death wish.......

I was driving through a town on the N2 one night and saw a car coming toward me that had no lights on at 11pm. Couple of Gardai doing doing a speed check just pointed the gun at them, didn't even try and stop them or point at their lights

AugustusMaximus

EPM wrote: »

we have them...just nowhere near enough of them

There's enough of them. Its just that all their mandate is speeding and breath testing.

Telling people to turn on their lights would never cross their minds.

I honestly don't know how many people I flashed last night with no lights on at all and it getting very dark. Some people are completely oblivious to the fact.

The_Conductor

The inverse of this is on a lovely morning like this morning- the number of fools driving along with their fog lights on- blinding all oncoming traffic.......

Whatever the mandate of the Traffic Corp is- they really need to start implementing the rules of the road. Its all well and good setting a few speed traps and breathalysing people- but there are a hell of a lot of basic rules of the road that are going completely ignored.

Seth Brundle

slimjimmc wrote: »

Up in the Pale's N7 I see cars doing 110kph+ bumper to bumper in all weathers. I can't understand why they drive so close at the best of times never mind today's rainy conditions where visbility was so very poor due to all the spray. Perhaps they do it just to see if the car in front is still there

sure do you remember the big crash on the N7
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055167358

JimmyCrackCorn!

kbannon wrote: »

sure do you remember the big crash on the N7
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055167358

Only a matter of time before it happens again.


Roads around the Dublin area are nuts for this kind of thing. Everyone tailgating and sitting in outside lane.

Maybe its an effect of volume of traffic but it doesnt seem to happen in the west.

AugustusMaximus

kbannon wrote: »

sure do you remember the big crash on the N7
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055167358

I witnessed a near head on road crash on the R639 in Watergrasshill about 18 months ago.

Absolutely blinding snow and the guy in front of me had no lights on. He decided to overtake the car in front. Anyways a car coming the opposite direction also had no lights on and only barely missed. Was able to pull into the hard shoulder in time.

I wouldn't mind but I had been flashing the guy in front of me for 5 minutes in vain trying to get him to turn on his lights.

Madness.



On the fire engine. Isn't it sheer madness that no one driving in the overtaking lane would leave a fire engine with its lights on and indicating right into the overtaking lane. Are people that stupid ?

AugustusMaximus

JimmyCrackCorn! wrote: »

Only a matter of time before it happens again.


Roads around the Dublin area are nuts for this kind of thing. Everyone tailgating and sitting in outside lane.

Maybe its an effect of volume of traffic but it doesnt seem to happen in the west.

Proper lane discipline might help including using the left most lane on the M7 for driving.

You could easily pass the driver theory test and then pass your driving test without ever knowing you should only be overtaking while in the overtaking lane.

itarumaa

This is the reason why good driver education should be mandatory and not the joke one you have in Ireland.

How many of those drivers has learned the proper way of using the lights in dark for instance.

When I got my driving licence in Finland I was tought excactly how to drive in night time and how to use the lights.

See the problem is that if you don´t learn the basics of driving when you are getting your licence, the chance is that you will not learn them later either.

loobylou

AugustusMaximus wrote: »

Are people that stupid ?

Unfortunately, in the case of a large percentage of road users, the answer is "yes".

Del2005

AugustusMaximus wrote: »

Proper lane discipline might help including using the left most lane on the M7 for driving.

You could easily pass the driver theory test and then pass your driving test without ever knowing you should only be overtaking while in the overtaking lane.

Your forgetting the princple that when you get a licence you're supposed to know the rules of the road and obay them. I have this agrument with my Dad all the time, he keeps saying how are people supposed to know how to use a round thing which isn't allowed to be dicussed here and I say it's in the rules of the road.

itarumaa wrote: »

This is the reason why good driver education should be mandatory and not the joke one you have in Ireland.

How many of those drivers has learned the proper way of using the lights in dark for instance.

When I got my driving licence in Finland I was tought excactly how to drive in night time and how to use the lights.

See the problem is that if you don´t learn the basics of driving when you are getting your licence, the chance is that you will not learn them later either.

Do you get skid pan training there also? TBH they should teach all childern in school basic driver ed, and even have it as part of an exam to skip the theory test if they pass before getting their permit.