In the spirit of Irish State Paternalism, Ban work related vehicles!

oconcuc

Flowing from our rich history of counter-productive and reactionary policy-making, in the interests of protecting our innocent citizenry from themselves, a complete prohibition on work-related road vehicles is required.

Just see for yourselves.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0301/breaking31.html

anymore

Well a quango has to put out regular reports and statements to justify its budgets.

peasant

anymore wrote: »

Well a quango has to put out regular reports and statements to justify its budgets.

Worse ...it also has to waste lots of money producing a cd that states the bleedin' obvious and then pass on the responsibility to employers.

This so called "Road Safety" authority in its existence hasn't managed to make one single road one bit safer. Let them start with overseeing proper road markings, proper signage and the re-design of accident blackspots before they go and annoy everybody else with their inane campaigns (he drives, she dies ...anyone?) and pointless productions like the above

hallelujajordan

peasant wrote: »

This so called "Road Safety" authority in its existence hasn't managed to make one single road one bit safer.

Yet every year since it's inception road deaths have dropped by somewhere in the region of 10%. More than 100 fewer people died last year on the roads than did in 2006 when the RSA was established.

MavisDavis

oconcuc wrote: »

Flowing from our rich history of counter-productive and reactionary policy-making, in the interests of protecting our innocent citizenry from themselves, a complete prohibition on work-related road vehicles is required.

Just see for yourselves.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0301/breaking31.html

Or perhaps a prohibition on work? Then we shan't have to venture out on the roads, and thus will never ever die..

Zambia

oconcuc wrote: »

Flowing from our rich history of counter-productive and reactionary policy-making, in the interests of protecting our innocent citizenry from themselves, a complete prohibition on work-related road vehicles is required.

Just see for yourselves.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0301/breaking31.html

You gotta love the fact that time and money was spent producing a report that says people who spend more time on the road are involved in more accidents?

Way to spend state finance there

P. Breathnach

Why the ridicule?

I was a little surprised by the report, as one's attention is so much drawn to road accidents in the small hours of the moring at weekends, typically involving young drivers socialising. It's no harm to make us aware that accidents involve other categories of people in other circumstances.

I now wonder how many of the drivers involved in fatal accidents are professional drivers, and if their accident rate is much different from that of other drivers if one adjusts for total distance travelled. I would hope that professional drivers would have a much lower accident rate than the rest of us and, if they don't, I would like to see the question explored further.