slow drivers time of the year

x in the city

was back in the rents for a few weeks and drove off to cork today, and there were at least 10 cars driving at about 20 mph (i dont do km/hr...!).
id say this carry on is rife across the land? cops should pull over these eejits.

good job my ac is fixed....!

fonecrusher1

Its annoying alright.

Coming back to cork from clonakilty on sunday, guy in front of me doing about 70kph on a 100kph stretch of road. I know its everyones right not to have to do the speed limit if they don't want to but come on?!!
The road was too busy to overtake so i was stuck behind this moron for about 5 miles with the guy behind me pissing me off because he's sitting on my bumper as if its my fault.

We get to a dual lane stretch fast lane/slow lane....this idiot then decides to come up to the speed limit because he sees me moving over to the fastlane to go past him.

The same thing happened to me on this road last year going in the other direction. This mad bitch actually sped up as i tried to overtake her because she was doing about 40mph. Made sure i had room to go around her & as i was passing she put the foot down? Lethal.

Some twisted fcukers out there.

Gazzydee

I live on the southside of dublin and if u want to see stupid and slow drivers try drive along the stretch of the M50 from Cherrywood up to Tallaght!!!

Everyday i drive this stretch of the motorway and i thought it was bad before they added an extra lane to make 3 but now drivers are nearly afraid tu drive onthe very inside lane as if its the unknown!!! but when i decide to jump in to skip by the traffic there always seems tu be a do gooder who feels the need tu jump infront of me and slow me bk down!!!

People of this country do not understand the basic rules of a motorway as they sit in the overtaking lane not overtaking then have a problem when you come along behind them!!!!!!!!

i think der needs tu be a lesson or a part of the driving test that actually teaches people how to drive on motorways since there seems tu be a serious lack of understanding!!!!!

BESman

Thought I was going mad and was the only person with this opinion! Drivers in this country are unreal, so many slow drivers which is a danger in itself. The speed limit is designed in such a way that that speed is the most appropriate for that stretch of road. I don't think it should be up to the driver's discretion whether he should drive at the limit suggested or choose to drive 20km slower than the limit. They should drive at the limit that applies, no more or less.

I often have a long commute from Galway city to Limerick city and my God what a sh1t journey. From Clarinbridge to Crusheen is torture. Its a reasonably safe and solid stretch of road, yet I have never got a nice run on it doing the speed limit, which is 100km/h for the most part. Majority of drivers do 70km/h to 80km/h the entire way. Its madness. Thank God for the motorway after Crusheen (which will eventually extend all the way to Galway city). Does anyone have any place to be anymore or do they just drive for the craic, pissing everyone else off that has to go to work? :mad:

djimi

Gazzydee wrote: »

I live on the southside of dublin and if u want to see stupid and slow drivers try drive along the stretch of the M50 from Cherrywood up to Tallaght!!!

Everyday i drive this stretch of the motorway and i thought it was bad before they added an extra lane to make 3 but now drivers are nearly afraid tu drive onthe very inside lane as if its the unknown!!! but when i decide to jump in to skip by the traffic there always seems tu be a do gooder who feels the need tu jump infront of me and slow me bk down!!!

People of this country do not understand the basic rules of a motorway as they sit in the overtaking lane not overtaking then have a problem when you come along behind them!!!!!!!!

i think der needs tu be a lesson or a part of the driving test that actually teaches people how to drive on motorways since there seems tu be a serious lack of understanding!!!!!

For probably the first time in years (and after reading some threads on here about motorway driving) I decided to pay attention to how people (myself included) drive the M50 yesterday. Dear lord some people havent a clue... At one point there was a steady stream of cars doing about 50mph in the middle lane, the inside lane was completely clear for about 3 miles and the outside lane was like a racetrack. I wanted to do the speed limit, but couldnt get into the outside lane and didnt want to undertake, meaning I was stuck in a lane full of morons who quite frankly are not competant enough to be behind the wheel of a car. How hard is it to either get up to speed on a straight open stretch of motorway, or have some common courtesy (never mind following the law) and stick to the inside lane if you want to crawl 15mph+ below the speed limit?

djimi

BESman wrote: »

Thought I was going mad and was the only person with this opinion! Drivers in this country are unreal, so many slow drivers which is a danger in itself. The speed limit is designed in such a way that that speed is the most appropriate for that stretch of road. I don't think it should be up to the driver's discretion whether he should drive at the limit suggested or choose to drive 20km slower than the limit. They should drive at the limit that applies, no more or less.

I often have a long commute from Galway city to Limerick city and my God what a sh1t journey. From Clarinbridge to Crusheen is torture. Its a reasonably safe and solid stretch of road, yet I have never got a nice run on it doing the speed limit, which is 100km/h for the most part. Majority of drivers do 70km/h to 80km/h the entire way. Its madness. Thank God for the motorway after Crusheen (which will eventually extend all the way to Galway city). Does anyone have any place to be anymore or do they just drive for the craic, pissing everyone else off that has to go to work? :mad:

With the exception of country and B roads (is that what they are called over here?) I agree; on a straight open stretch of motorway there is little excuse for not driving to the speed limit.

Gazzydee

djimi wrote: »

For probably the first time in years (and after reading some threads on here about motorway driving) I decided to pay attention to how people (myself included) drive the M50 yesterday. Dear lord some people havent a clue... At one point there was a steady stream of cars doing about 50mph in the middle lane, the inside lane was completely clear for about 3 miles and the outside lane was like a racetrack. I wanted to do the speed limit, but couldnt get into the outside lane and didnt want to undertake, meaning I was stuck in a lane full of morons who quite frankly are not competant enough to be behind the wheel of a car. How hard is it to either get up to speed on a straight open stretch of motorway, or have some common courtesy (never mind following the law) and stick to the inside lane if you want to crawl 15mph+ below the speed limit?

And i bet you would feel the same about people infront of you coming on to a motorway who refuse tu get up tu the speed limit before merging and instead sit at 40mph and merging then onto the motorway which causes everyone on the inside lane to pull out on to the overtaking lane which causes ructions!!! and people still wont speed up to overtake these people so they can get back into the inside lane!!!!!!

Tefral

Well in England if your driving too slow youll get pulled over for dangerous driving...

Here unfortunately there is such a culture of speed related deaths that the law is somewhat backward...

Dunno how many times i was told when i first started driving that " speed limits are limits not targets"

While i agree that some roads have stupidly high speed limits, on motorways and dual carriage ways theres no excuse not to be travelling at the speed limit.

What i cant understand is the people that travel at say 90 km/hr on a primary road and not 100 km/hr when its perfectly safe, nothing grinds my gears more (with the exception of overtaking lane hoggers)

Drove from Limerick to Dublin there Sunday night, when i got to the Nass bypass i moved into the inside lane, stuck to the 100 and was flying by people in the middle and overtaking lane, i know im not supposed to but i didnt give a ****, they were the ones that caused me to pass them. I only moved out of my lane when i got to newlands cross.

corktina

I went to Duberlin yesterday....got to the N7 and there were two guys in the middle lane doing about 70k towing horseboxes...just caught up to them and one decided to overtake the other....71k in lane 3....:rolleyes: (Yes it was a Transit ...)...feck I hate that road....I only want to do the limit and Im happy in lane 1 (all on my own..), so whats with these gob****es in lane 2 practically parked ?...

hoodie6029

I think a lot of slow driving is pure Irish stinginess. 'sure, if i went faster i'd be burning more fuel (in my 1.4 base model corolla)'
So matter how clear, smooth, safe,empty the road some Loolaa will be crawling to save themselves a fiver. GET A PUSHBIKE YOU IMBECILE!!

Gazzydee

i think we should be able to deal with these people on our own and same with cyclists that like to cycle infront of you when you go around a corner!

these two kinds of people are of the same kind! a danger to irish roads! ive even spotted cyclists on motorways! and where are the guards ?!

too busy pulling people over tht go 3kmh over the speed limit!!

we shud just kill them its as simple as that! :P

Thats how enraged i am by these kinds of people lol !!!

blackbox

corktina wrote: »

I went to Duberlin yesterday....got to the N7 and there were two guys in the middle lane doing about 70k towing horseboxes...just caught up to them and one decided to overtake the other....71k in lane 3....:rolleyes: (Yes it was a Transit ...)...feck I hate that road....I only want to do the limit and Im happy in lane 1 (all on my own..), so whats with these gob****es in lane 2 practically parked ?...

You want to be careful using that lane 1 on the N7. Most people seem to believe that there are land-mines in it. That's the only explanation for the way hardly anyone uses it.

x in the city

I pass them out at the earliest opportunity, they haven't a clue how to drive and could cause a 10 pileup accident any minute. braking suddenly (while driving at a highly dangerous speed of course), swapping lanes, pulling over to another side of the road, being scared ****less to pass out a 100 ton truck and prefer to stay stuck up its arse, thus insuring zero visibility, any sort of rubbish.

idiots

langdang

A sure sign you're dealing with one of the worst of them is when they are doing 60kph and see a 100kph sign - what do they do - BRAKE!
Now before someone comes along and says that just means they don't see too good, c'mon - if they can't make out that there are 3 digits on the sign they should not be on the road, and they are a moron for not realising that. Or maybe they do realise it and as with everything else in Ireland they are so much more important than everyone else so they must be an exception to the rules

BESman

langdang wrote: »

Or maybe they do realise it and as with everything else in Ireland they are so much more important than everyone else so they must be an exception to the rules

Drivers in this country suffer from selfishness. They have no awareness of those around them and other road users. Its the attitude of "I'll do the speed I want and I don't care who I hold up". I spend a large amount of time looking in my rear view mirror as I don't like to hold up a driver who is clearly in a rush. The majority of roads, even the very bad ones, have hard shoulders and no one uses them. Trucks are particularly guilty of this. I don't see why it is such an inconvenience for a slow moving vehicle to pull into the hard shoulder for a little while to let traffic pass.

CarMuppet

I believe it's illegal to drive in the hard shoulder. Although it's kind of nice thing to do if you're hauling a trailer or holding up the flow of traffic. It’s a kind of grey area really.

As mentioned above one of the more scary things I’ve seen here in Ireland is the habit of some drivers to accelerate when you’re overtaking. This is normally not an issue if you’re driving a performance car, as a quick dab of right hoof will fax that problem immediately.

The problem for me personally is two small cars coming towards you on an R or L type road (no hard shoulder).
Car A overtakes Car B.
Car B wakes up and starts to match the speed of Car A.
Car A is determined to overtake.
Both cars have equal power.
The laws of physics then conspire to have two parallel cars accelerating towards me on a small road with nowhere for me to dive. That is scary.:)


Cheers,
CarMuppet

CarMuppet

BESman wrote: »

Drivers in this country suffer from selfishness..

This sums up all the issues really discussed on this forum.

EDIT: And it's just not this country... it's worldwide.

x in the city

CarMuppet wrote: »

This sums up all the issues really discussed on this forum.

EDIT: And it's just not this country... it's worldwide.

Ireland is worst than most, I have done my bit of travelling

johnos1984

CarMuppet wrote: »

I believe it's illegal to drive in the hard shoulder.

I thought the same but was corrected.

If it is safe to do so you can drive in the hard shoulder to allow others overtake you

However what really pisses me off is when people stop in hard shoulders, or in the driving lanes to answer mobile phones. It is incredibly dangerous to do so and often people do it on turns etc.

I was explaining this to the girlfriend (she is learning to drive and I have terrified her) on Friday on the way to Cork when up ahead I saw an Avensis swerve onto the hard shoulder and brake hard so that they could answer the mobile. Unfortunately the lorry behind them ended up on top of them. Nasty looking accident caused by stupidity of the highest order

Mitch Connor

was driving into work yesterday, down a nice wide straight road (stupid 60k limit though) and managed to overtake someone comfortably without breaking the speedlimit. 3 cars behind me did the same.

On the M50 there is a moron in a green renault (every morning around 7.15 near dundrum) and he sits in the middle lane doing about 80. I have tried over taking him and pulling back into the left most lane almost immediately (cause there is always plenty of room) in order to give him the hint that it is what he should be doing, but he doesn't get the message. He pulled out in front of me today (going 20kmph less than I was doing (I was doing 120 in the 120 zone) forcing me to hit the brakes. I hate that guy.

smokingman

Mitch Connor wrote: »

On the M50 there is a moron in a green renault (every morning around 7.15 near dundrum) and he sits in the middle lane doing about 80. I have tried over taking him and pulling back into the left most lane almost immediately (cause there is always plenty of room) in order to give him the hint that it is what he should be doing, but he doesn't get the message.

I always do this to the middle lane hoggers but like your own experience, they never quite get it....although it's on the N7 and as mentioned above, the left lane must be landmined!

E39MSport

djimi wrote: »

For probably the first time in years (and after reading some threads on here about motorway driving) I decided to pay attention to how people (myself included) drive the M50 yesterday. Dear lord some people havent a clue... At one point there was a steady stream of cars doing about 50mph in the middle lane, the inside lane was completely clear for about 3 miles and the outside lane was like a racetrack. I wanted to do the speed limit, but couldnt get into the outside lane and didnt want to undertake, meaning I was stuck in a lane full of morons who quite frankly are not competant enough to be behind the wheel of a car. How hard is it to either get up to speed on a straight open stretch of motorway, or have some common courtesy (never mind following the law) and stick to the inside lane if you want to crawl 15mph+ below the speed limit?

Wonder what they guy behind you thought? ...................

djimi

E39MSport wrote: »

Wonder what they guy behind you thought? ...................

Haha never thought of it like that

CarMuppet

CarMuppet wrote: »

I believe it's illegal to drive in the hard shoulder.

I don't think it is on a standard 2 way road with hard shoulders
It is illegal on a motorway though.

Why do so many people refuse to drive just inside the hard shoulder when its safe to do so, and let traffic overtake??

Because of their stupidity they force overtaking traffic onto oncoming lanes

Gazzydee

Again today as i came onto the M50 at cherrywood heading northbound i came on to the slip road and accelrated to get up tu the speed of the motorway and the car infront of me i assumed was doing the same untill i realised she was stikking tu roughly 70kph coming on to 120kph stretch of road there was a car behind me doing the same speed as me if not faster and if i had have hit the brakes i would have caused a huge accident. so instead i drove at the speed and checked my mirrors blind spot no cars behind me and indicated and pulled out. Nothing i did was illegal or dangerous to me anyway as i did all the usual checks before coming on to the motorway, and the response from the driver i got was flashing of the lights and fingers and hands out the window!! from the woman i might add, in the black suzuki swift doing nearly half the speed recommended by the RSA on this stretch of motorway!!

Ireland claims to have such a high death rate relating to "speed" but there researchers sit in an office and read reports. I could safely say that the majority of road deaths and accidents are down to SLOW drivers!

Jeremy Clarkson once said "Speed does not kill, its the people who brake and go below the speed limit that causes the car driving behind to have to hit the brakes that causes the accidents"

The sad thing is that no matter what you say no one will listen!!

On the Autobahn in Germany you get kicked off the motorway for goin under 80mph on some parts if that rule was enforced in here in Ireland then there would be almost 0 accidents and road deaths on motorways!!!!!!

The Nutty M

salonfire wrote: »

Why do so many people refuse to drive just inside the hard shoulder when its safe to do so, and let traffic overtake??

Because of their stupidity they force overtaking traffic onto oncoming lanes

Some people refuse,myself included,because it's never too safe to drive in there.On a straight stretch with no junctions,yes,other than that you can go and twiddle if you think I'm going endangering the life of not so much myself but of others who may come out of a side road or anything unexpected.If you want to die by all means,overtake me into oncoming traffic,i didnt force you into the move,you took the risk not the opportunity.If you cause any driver to alter his course by taking evasive action to avoid you,it's a plain and simple dangerous driving conviction,have fun with your insurance premium after that one .

It has been said on this thread before,Irish drivers lack respect and courtesy for other road users,they are half asleep most of the time.They cant read the road ahead or anticipate other road users movements,simple tunnel vision,no spacial awareness at all.

hoodie6029

using the hard shoulder to let someone overtake is not illegal. Slow drivers please take note.


http://www.rulesoftheroad.ie/rules-for-driving/traffic-signs-road-markings/road-markings.html

The Nutty M

Gazzydee wrote: »

On the Autobahn in Germany you get kicked off the motorway for goin under 80mph on some parts if that rule was enforced in here in Ireland then there would be almost 0 accidents and road deaths on motorways!!!!!!

I love the stuff some people write here:rolleyes: .


If only it were true.

snickerpuss

Felt this way with some lad doing 40km/ph on the 100km/ph N81 all the way from Blessington to Tallaght yesterday. No opportunity to overtake and it was actually painful to go that slow. 60 under the speed limit is just ridiculous.

Mc Love

Its all well and good, if someone is doing the speed limit, but when you have someone that is driving up yer arse on any kind of road, just makes me want to go slower if I am not in a rush (and I am talking about minor roads that have no hard shoulder)

Heroditas

I wish people would learn how to be drive like they do in South Africa.
Over there, many of the roads are single lane but they have a decent hard shoulder.
If you come up behind someone, they are expected to pull into the hard shoulder and let you overtake them safely.
I never once had someone who didn't do this when I tried to overtake them.
Also, if you pull in to let someone overtake, they always acknowledge you and flash their lights or wave to say thanks.

It was a pleasure to drive over there.
Instead, we're stuck with the morons here who are so self-absorbed, they think they're the only people on the road.

Patsy fyre

If I ever die in a car crash it will be because of slow drivers!

There like a virus on our awful road network.

CarMuppet

Heroditas wrote: »

I wish people would learn how to be drive like they do in South Africa.
.

In all fairneess SA does not have a good mortality rate on the roads..

CarMuppet

Patsy fyre wrote: »

If I ever die in a car crash it will be because of slow drivers!

There like a virus on our awful road network.

Slow drivers can be a bit annoying alright if you're in a hurry... they are just plodding doing their best.

If you're an experienced driver and have a few horses under the bonnet then a slow driver is generally not an issue. But if it’s not safe to overtake then just wait. In fact slow a way down and build up a distance between you and the car in front… it’ll ‘feel’ a lot better.

I'm not a RSA advocate; I think their advertising campaign is focusing on the wrong issues but that’s a personal thing… but I would say one thing. Don’t put yourself in a position where you can collide, in a standard produciton road-car it’s get’s very messy and squishy.

Again this is a personal opinion, what’s nearly worse than a road death is a road brain injury. The family have to deal with that crap for a long time for the sake of a few mins.

CarMuppet

johnos1984 wrote: »

I thought the same but was corrected.

If it is safe to do so you can drive in the hard shoulder to allow others overtake you

I didn't know that. Interesting. Thank you.

JimmyCrackCorn

Angers my blood allot.

The temptation to preform a dodgie overtake or flash lights, or beep just makes me look like a coont and guaranteed they wont have a clue what your on about. (pluss all of the above are classed as aggressive or dangerous driving)

E39MSport

Patsy fyre wrote: »

If I ever die in a car crash it will be because of slow drivers!

No it won't.

Patsy fyre

Patsy fyre wrote: »

If I ever die in a car crash it will be because of slow drivers!
.

Given the absolute muppet in the car in front of me driving up the arse of the car in front of him so closely he repeatedly had to brake, I doubt it.
Yer one was doing the speed limit (which is admittedly a bit slow at 80kph on the way to enfield) but he was driving right up to her, nearly beside her at one stage, didn't feel the need to overtake on the tiny bit of road that you're allowed to. Seriously dangerous carryon.

concussion

Although I drive near enough to the posted limit, if someone wants to get past I'll pull over to the hard shoulder, where safe. Will only do it during the day though, too many ninja cyclists/pedestrians around with no lights.

johnos1984

concussion wrote: »

Although I drive near enough to the posted limit, if someone wants to get past I'll pull over to the hard shoulder, where safe. Will only do it during the day though, too many ninja cyclists/pedestrians around with no lights.

I got the living daylights scared out of me one night after a farmer had parked a trailer with no lights/refectors on it on the hard shoulder! :eek:

Heroditas

CarMuppet wrote: »

In all fairneess SA does not have a good mortality rate on the roads..

Oh I agree, it can be carnage over there.

However, I do like the aspect of people pulling over and letting others overtake them.
It's simply good manners.

CarMuppet

Heroditas wrote: »

However, I do like the aspect of people pulling over and letting others overtake them.
It's simply good manners.

you're dead right... manners would go a long way...

BESman

98% of accidents are caused by slow drivers.

I have absolutely no source for this. But its true.

ottostreet

god almighty, just drove from carlow to my house, ten minutes of a national road. stuck behind a 07 jeep that wouldnt go above 70km/h. constant traffic coming the toher way and COULD NOT get past. driving a pretty quick car, but no gaps and the ****er wouldnt pull in in the slightest.

huge queue behind me by the time i got home.

i am furious right now

cats.life

ottostreet wrote: »

god almighty, just drove from carlow to my house, ten minutes of a national road. stuck behind a 07 jeep that wouldnt go above 70km/h. constant traffic coming the toher way and COULD NOT get past. driving a pretty quick car, but no gaps and the ****er wouldnt pull in in the slightest.

huge queue behind me by the time i got home.

i am furious right now

ah but you got home in one piece, that rattles me aswell being behind a twat like that, now i dont pass any heed on them cos it dont do my blood pressure any good so i just back of them or stop a shop on the way to get water or paper. what was the speed limit anyway on the road ye were on?

dr.fuzzenstein

The Nutty M wrote: »

I love the stuff some people write here:rolleyes: .


If only it were true.

I am German. It is true.
You can however blow past the Polizei at 220 km/h with them doing about 110 km/h in their van, and...nothing.
Because it's legal.
I can only encourage everyone to find an empty stretch of Autobahn and do 240 km/h+, it is the best fun you can gave with your clothes on.
The German ROTR state:

Im Übrigen ist stets § 1 der StVO zu beachten, der besagt, dass jeder Verkehrsteilnehmer sich so zu verhalten hat, dass kein Anderer geschädigt, gefährdet oder mehr, als nach den Umständen unvermeidbar, behindert oder belästigt wird. Hieraus folgt, dass man, insofern es die Gegebenheiten zulassen, die zulässige Höchstgeschwindigkeit nicht sehr weit unterschreiten darf.

Which means:
Every participant in traffic has to behave in such a way that no one gets injured, damaged, endangered and according to circumstances, is not being inconvenienced and troubled. From this follows that the maximum speed limit should not be undercut by a significant amount.

ottostreet

cats.life wrote: »

ah but you got home in one piece, that rattles me aswell being behind a twat like that, now i dont pass any heed on them cos it dont do my blood pressure any good so i just back of them or stop a shop on the way to get water or paper. what was the speed limit anyway on the road ye were on?

100 zone. and yeah, i got home in one piece, but i could have gotten home in one piece ten minutes quicker! well, a few minutes. and i wouldnt have had to change between 4th and 5th constantly because of the slowly varying speed!

johnos1984

I got stuck behind a 3 series doing 60-70kph in a 100 zone for about 10 miles this evening.

I didn't get frustrated though and just presumed it was a 316 accelerating hard

Gazzydee

hey i have a 316 ! i got 125mph in germany on the autobahn out of it !

but if im on a motorway and someone behind me in a faster car wants tu fly by i pull in without a second thought!!

thing is u gotta have respect for people who want to go faster than u otherwise u cause alot of anger and a big accident!!!

i also like the fact someone from germany could back me up on that one! i believe they have a very low road death rate and as soon as a crash happens the road is cleared within minutes the way things shud be here !!!!!!

gleep

Done Donegal Town to Galway today, stuck behind a Red VW Golf (01 so 20**** - hope you're reading;)). They were doing 60 kph along the n17, which is 100, between sligo and tubercurry and I had no way around them! I thought my head was going to explode - really, I did:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Seriously though - these people are way more prevelant and dangerous than speeders. They should get points just the same.

challengemaster

BESman wrote: »

The speed limit is designed in such a way that that speed is the most appropriate for that stretch of road.

Where ROTR/Driving regulations actually make sense and are enforced properly, sure, I'd agree with that. Here, though, you might aswell throw that idea out the window.

The N6, dub-galway route got cut back to 80km/h in most places once the motorway went in, was 100km/h previous to that IIRC - for the most part, it's every bit as good as the motorway is quality wise.

The little country/bog-road-esque route to my girlfriends house, just about 1 car width, loads of blind corners, has craters (not potholes, craters) everywhere.... also has a speed limit of 80km/h.

I don't think it should be up to the driver's discretion whether he should drive at the limit suggested or choose to drive 20km slower than the limit. They should drive at the limit that applies, no more or less.

Weather/road/traffic conditions aside, I'd agree...

cronin_j wrote: »

Well in England if your driving too slow youll get pulled over for dangerous driving...

Again, somewhere that actually has proper legislation for driving.

Dunno how many times i was told when i first started driving that " speed limits are limits not targets"

Who hasn't heard that one tbh.

Drove from Limerick to Dublin there Sunday night, when i got to the Nass bypass i moved into the inside lane, stuck to the 100 and was flying by people in the middle and overtaking lane, i know im not supposed to but i didnt give a ****, they were the ones that caused me to pass them. I only moved out of my lane when i got to newlands cross.

Funny thing is, though, despite them doing not 1 but 2 things wrong, if you were caught, you'd be the one in shít.

corktina wrote: »

I went to Duberlin yesterday....got to the N7 and there were two guys in the middle lane doing about 70k towing horseboxes...just caught up to them and one decided to overtake the other....71k in lane 3....:rolleyes: (Yes it was a Transit ...)...feck I hate that road....I only want to do the limit and Im happy in lane 1 (all on my own..), so whats with these gob****es in lane 2 practically parked ?...

It's always lovely when that happens, except not just with people towing horseboxes - any sort of trailer, artics, HGVs, etc.. takes about 5 minutes for them to get ahead of the other one..

Gazzydee wrote: »

these two kinds of people are of the same kind! a danger to irish roads! ive even spotted cyclists on motorways! and where are the guards ?!

too busy pulling people over tht go 3kmh over the speed limit!!

You'd spot all sorts on motorways tbh, that big blue sign saying who isn't allowed on - sure that's only there for a laugh.

I've never, ever seen Gardaí pull anyone for going too slow. Fúck it, I've been stuck in a line of traffic 20 cars+ long because of tractors going 15km/h with a squad sitting in the middle of it, anything done? Nope.

ottostreet wrote: »

god almighty, just drove from carlow to my house, ten minutes of a national road. stuck behind a 07 jeep that wouldnt go above 70km/h. constant traffic coming the toher way and COULD NOT get past. driving a pretty quick car, but no gaps and the ****er wouldnt pull in in the slightest.

huge queue behind me by the time i got home.

i am furious right now

I had something worse earlier - coming back from oughterard to galway, got stuck behind a truck carring some kind of machinery, and behind that was a HGV... both doing about 60km/h or so... Same situation, constant traffic coming towards, and then the only gap the whole way - the fecking HGV decides to spend an age overtaking the truck, INTO oncoming traffic for some part of it. Took 20-30 mins going out, took about 45+ coming back.

Gazzydee wrote: »

but if im on a motorway and someone behind me in a faster car wants tu fly by i pull in without a second thought!!

thing is u gotta have respect for people who want to go faster than u otherwise u cause alot of anger and a big accident!!!

See, over here, if someones on a motorway, and a car comes up behind them going faster, they decide to try a career as a pace-car. "Think you'll go faster than me, do ya?! OHOH!"

gleep wrote: »

Seriously though - these people are way more prevelant and dangerous than speeders. They should get points just the same.

I've heard of cases where people have been taken to court for almost causing accidents for driving slowly, forcing others to overtake, then getting agressive when they do...etc

Judges favour the slow driver, always saying they can drive at whatever speed they like under the limit. Insane tbh