Will this bad weather make drivers more careful

Trampas

With the bad road conditions this year will it make people more aware or cautious drivers?

Or will everyone just return to normal in a week?

yop

Trampas wrote: »

With the bad road conditions this year will it make people more aware or cautious drivers?

Or will everyone just return to normal in a week?

It never left!

have you been on the roads, not sure what Dublin is like but every diCK and his sister has been on the loose out here, passing out on roads, breaking WAY to late at junctions and near misses

peasant

In Germany, the period with the most serious accidents is in spring, on the first warm, dry and sunny weekend. When roads are dry and free of ice, snow and leftover grit for the first time and the sun is out.

Everybody puts the sunglasses on, rolls the window down, cranks up the music, goes for a drive, puts the foot down ....and switches off their brain

ednwireland

Trampas wrote: »

With the bad road conditions this year will it make people more aware or cautious drivers?

Or will everyone just return to normal in a week?

considering they way they have driving through it ...NO

EPM

Hopefully it will give a few people a fright...but I doubt it...

ninty9er

They may have become more "careful" the last 15 days, but they have become more dangerous.

60km/h on the M7 is unforgiveable in wet weather, I believe that should fall under the "slow moving vehicles" ban on motorway signs.

On a side note, the aunt's husband did about a grand's worth of damage in the driveway yesterday.

W.Shakes-Beer

i've already noticed, since the thaw, that people are driving with feet of lead, now that the roads are slightly clear.

Im just waiting to see a nun in a Micra come absolutely storming up the bus lane tomorrow morning, then i'll know were back to normal.

GTE

I vote no. If the people I have seen drive like they do in the snow and ice god help us when its dry and warm

Muckie

Thaw begins and its back to the "Wacky races".
Jesus dropped the Mrs to work, and cars flying it thru the slush
and ice. Oh don't forget the "Bad headlight brigade" too.
Counted 5 in in a 10min trip. Back to normal folks!

Mossy Monk

Since the ice and snow etc I have noticed hardly any idiots driving like morons. I use the N25 a lot.

VERYinterested

Muckie wrote: »

Jesus dropped the Mrs to work, and cars flying it thru the slush and ice.

How much did he charge?

faceman

Many people wont learn. If they did, no one would ever earn more than 2 penalty points.

c4cat

Trampas wrote: »

With the bad road conditions this year will it make people more aware or cautious drivers?

Or will everyone just return to normal in a week?

Depends if they were in the right Q when brains were handed out

D_murph

If the way I have seen people drive even when road conditions were shyte, then I vote no also.

Anyone who tailgates you when driving on a sheet of ice downhill is a serious clown IMO :mad: and even on a level road also. Both of which I have had to put up with lately :rolleyes:.

One case as an example, a mate of mines girlfriend was driving me to the pub around Xmas times and some arsehole tailgated her (while we were on a very dodgy road) and even overtook her in a twisty road :eek:. Madness!!!

Another one was when I was going down a steep hill just outside the city here in Cork and a clown in a Fiat Punto was up my arse for a good portion of the start of it. I was well, well away from the car ahead of me but he was so close, I could see his stupid face in my RVM :rolleyes:. I opened my drivers window and waved at him to back off cos I was sure he would be stuck in the back of my car sooner or later and he actually did back off. Surely, I should not have to tell anyone with a brain that driving too close in slippery conditions and downhill is a nono though :rolleyes:.