"Drivers: Road safety is everyone's responsibility"

veryangryman

Latest NRA campaign.

Sounds hypocritical. If its "everyones responsibility" then why oh why do they address only drivers. Morons are walking on Motorways and getting killed and of course its always just the drivers fault

Is there any possible ad that they can do to say "Mr cyclist, take a look around" or "Mr Pedestrian, always use the designated footpaths etc"

HivemindXX

veryangryman wrote: »

Is there any possible ad that they can do to say "Mr cyclist, take a look around" or "Mr Pedestrian, always use the designated footpaths etc"

I've seen ads like that previously.

How many road fatalities this year were caused by people walking on the motorways?

veryangryman

HivemindXX wrote: »

I've seen ads like that previously.

How many road fatalities this year were caused by people walking on the motorways?

At least 3 (Athlone and M7/M9 merge were 2 of the locations)

1 is too many

witnessmenow

Maybe im imagining it but i thought i heard an ad that was "Mr pedestrian, stay safe"

I did hear the ad the op is refering to as well, they were sperate ads

whyulittle

They have an ad about a pedestrian getting lost in their own world listening to the radio, "so you didn't see the car that just ran you over" type thing.

Fighting Irish

veryangryman wrote: »

Latest NRA campaign.

Sounds hypocritical. If its "everyones responsibility" then why oh why do they address only drivers. Morons are walking on Motorways and getting killed and of course its always just the drivers fault

Is there any possible ad that they can do to say "Mr cyclist, take a look around" or "Mr Pedestrian, always use the designated footpaths etc"

:pac:

flazio

I see in the cinema that the RSA are using the Welsh crash reconstruction with the 3 girls in a Ka and the driver texting, complete with rubbish voice overs and even more rubbish graphics to change the reg plates to Irish style.

KevR

veryangryman wrote: »

At least 3 (Athlone and M7/M9 merge were 2 of the locations)

1 is too many

I think there was one on the M3 as well.

redcube

I almost hit a pedestrian a few nights back no reflect cloths on at all and wearing dark cloths on a narrow road almost took there head clean of with my wing mirror saw them at the last second had my lights on full.

There is a few kids around where i used to live they trow stuff at cars one of them threw a egg or something at my windscreen i lost control of the van and hit the foot path and the railing in front of the kids now if the railing wasn't there i know i would have killed them i was going slow but it made me jump which caused me to lose control the sad bit is the police let them of with a warning the next day there where back at it

Now i'm not done yet a police officer on a bike was cyclisting in traffic i had my left indicator on as i was turning left the police officer went up my left i didn't see him as he was in my blind spot next thing i hear a bang i stop got out of the van to see a bike under my van and one pale face police officer who then tried to fine me for dangerous driving but thanks to another motors (If your on here Thanks again) who point out that my indicator where on and working and the police officer should have waited till i turned

So see all this as happened to me in the past 4 weeks so can you image how much i see in a year as i do a lot of driving almost 25,000 miles a year

Carawaystick

redcube wrote: »

I almost hit a pedestrian a few nights back no reflect cloths on at all and wearing dark cloths on a narrow road almost took there head clean of with my wing mirror saw them at the last second had my lights on full.

Driving too fast for the conditions???

redcube

No i was going slow i always drive 10 to 15 miles under the speed limited after a crash when i started driving almost 6 years ago hit a tree at 60mph didn't walk away had to go to hospital made me rethink my driving hit the same tree a year later at 45mph and walked away different car but same make

Bards

redcube wrote: »

No i was going slow i always drive 10 to 15 miles under the speed limited after a crash when i started driving almost 6 years ago hit a tree at 60mph didn't walk away had to go to hospital made me rethink my driving hit the same tree a year later at 45mph and walked away different car but same make

just so you know, they come in tree's:D

grogi

Carawaystick wrote: »

Driving too fast for the conditions???

That's why 99% of incidents are caused by driving too fast...

redcube

going fast only means you'll get to your location early but at what risks did you take doing that
going slow still means you'll get to your location but a lot safer

I used to now someone who'd drive 2 times the speed limit in a town till they lost control of there car they hit a speed bump out side a school flipped the car over and landed in side the school playground luckily it was night time and the school was closed i don't talk to them any more as my nice and nephew went to that school and i was fit to kill them but i just walk away one thing i do know his they lost there license thank god

Stark

redcube wrote: »

No i was going slow i always drive 10 to 15 miles under the speed limited after a crash when i started driving almost 6 years ago hit a tree at 60mph didn't walk away had to go to hospital made me rethink my driving hit the same tree a year later at 45mph and walked away different car but same make

I just stopped driving into trees. Found it much faster and safer to follow the road.

redcube

Stark wrote: »

I just stopped driving into trees. Found it much faster and safer to follow the road.

Me to but they just seem to pop up from time to time well that and the tree is gone now was good fire wood

Stark

Trees just appearing out of thin air in the middle of a road? Sounds to me like driver retraining is needed.

How Strange

We were driving to Clare last Friday via Galway motorway. Dreadful weather, appalling visibility and I was astounded by the amount of drivers who hadn't turned their lights on. On the motorway they were practically invisibl until they were right
up behind you. I was also amazed at the speeding i.e. exceeding limit on all roads. It should be mandatory to have your lights on dim all year around just as it is in lots of countries.

We went on N67 towards Clare and the road is nothing short of a boreen yet the speed limit was 100km. I'm from a rural area so I know how to drive on country roads but honestly if you did 100km on that road you were an accident waiting to happen. How they determined the speed limit was a mystery to us but perhaps it was a pen pusher in an office in Dublin who said it's a main road therefore its 100km.
We saw one overturned car on that road on Friday evening.

Cyclists without any reflective gear or lights. Do they not realise they are invisible?

JohnC.

Driving into Waterford early every morning for work when it is still dark, it is no exaggeration to say I see literally no bikes with lights and very few with reflective gear. Not just in the city either, but further out where there aren't even any street lights. They really need to cop on.

Agree about drivers not turning on lights in low visibility too. Also seen drivers driving in the city at night with no lights on, relying on the street lights. They don't seem to realise that lights aren't just about lighting their way, but for others to see them too.

tonc76

redcube wrote: »

I almost hit a pedestrian a few nights back no reflect cloths on at all and wearing dark cloths on a narrow road almost took there head clean of with my wing mirror saw them at the last second had my lights on full.

Were you driving in middle earth?

redcube

tonc76 wrote: »

Were you driving in middle earth?

No my wing mirror is very high of the ground it just about neck height on a average person

Jayuu

How Strange wrote: »

How they determined the speed limit was a mystery to us but perhaps it was a pen pusher in an office in Dublin who said it's a main road therefore its 100km.

As far as I am aware speed limits are actually set by local authorities, under guidelines issued by the Department of Transport, so its more like the pen pusher is in an office in Ennis!

How Strange

Jayuu wrote: »

As far as I am aware speed limits are actually set by local authorities, under guidelines issued by the Department of Transport, so its more like the pen pusher is in an office in Ennis!

In that case they should be ashamed. It's one of the most dangerous roads I've ever seen considering the speed limit. We wnt onto a secondary road at one point, it was wider with a far better surface and the limit was 80.

redcube

Most of the roads in Clare have bad speed limits i know i live there