Punish bad drivers

Builderfromhell

The weather in recent weeks has made driving more challenging for most of us.
But how many drivers are a danger to themselves and others because of their incompetent driving.
I have seen people driving in thick fog when it was starting to get dark with no lights on.
Have seen people driving with windscreens mostly obscured by ice.
People driving ridiculously slow on clear gritted roads.
4 x4 drivers driving too slow on roads with snow.

I am now thinking that people who cannot competently drive in these conditions should not drive.

To clear the roads of dangerously incompetent drivers the Gardai should start issuing fines for dangerous driving. Force people to turn on lights in fog and clear there windscreens.

Cookie_Monster

all those rules are there, there is just little to no enforcement of any traffic rules apart from speeding

Danbo!

Maybe some kind of penalty system whereby a number of offences with varying penalties will add up to you losing your licence?

Actually, it'd never be enforced.

EPM

Danbo! wrote: »

Maybe some kind of penalty system whereby a number of offences with varying penalties will add up to you losing your licence?

Actually, it'd never be enforced.

Eh...that's in place

Danbo!

EPM wrote: »

Eh...that's in place

Oops, forgot the

sh1tstirrer

Here we go again with I'm a perfect driver get all the bad drivers off the road thread :rolleyes:

Rackstar

EPM wrote: »

Eh...that's in place

Sarcasm no?

AugustusMinimus

Drunk driving and speeding takes very little work to detect, punish and most importantly for the authorities, fine.

Sending out squad cars to enforce all the other driving rules wouldn't bring in nearly the same amount of cash and so it simply isn't done.

johnos1984

They should be shot with hardened bullets of their own ****

Until that happens I'm just going to keep paying attention and look after myself and my own driving

Gophur

And while you're banning people, let's ban internet keyboard warriors who don't know the difference between 'their' and 'there' ?

Show some tolerance , FFS, if we all get home safe it doesn't matter if we're delayed along the way.

tommyhaas

Gophur wrote: »

Show some tolerance , FFS, if we all get home safe it doesn't matter if we're delayed along the way.

I hate that attitude. Some people have better things to be doing then waiting in traffic all day

Gophur

tommyhaas wrote: »

I hate that attitude. Some people have better things to be doing then waiting in traffic all day

Who had to wait in traffic all day ?

Exaggerating to prove your point? How about chilling out and realising you only share the road, you don't own it?

Cuddlesworth

I wasn't aware that having a four wheel drive helped you stop faster. Good to know OP.

tommyhaas

Gophur wrote: »

Who had to wait in traffic all day ?

Exaggerating to prove your point? How about chilling out and realising you only share the road, you don't own it?

Its a commonly used phrase

And yes Im aware I dont own the road. I never suggested otherwise, I simply stated that I did not like the attitude of some drivers. I dont know how you jumped to that conclusion

My point related to drivers who, when the light goes green, arnt immediately ready to go, or those who take an age to get on to a roundabout, the sort of things that delays everyone

furiousox

festive facepalm!

Shane732

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

I wasn't aware that having a four wheel drive helped you stop faster. Good to know OP.

Don't you know that all four wheel drive cars now come with ceramic brakes and also some new system that actually clears the snow from under the tyres. Amazing stuff...

BostonB

Builderfromhell wrote: »

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To clear the roads of dangerously incompetent drivers the Gardai should start issuing fines for dangerous driving. Force people to turn on lights in fog and clear there windscreens.

So to paraphrase. Cops go do your job? Same as every other day of the year.

leeroybrown

I don't mind people driving really slowly in these conditions. It's better than them being over-confident and crashing into me. The only exception is hill ascents. The slower drivers need to realise that unless they have the right tyres they'll need a little bit of momentum to reach the top of a steep icy hill. A couple of days ago I came up behind a fool who stopped dead 150m up a hill ascent. I had enough momentum to climb the hill but ended up having to pull up and stick on my hazards. Even with the traction control off I barely managed to get my GTi moving again to get around them.

djimi

tommyhaas wrote: »

I hate that attitude. Some people have better things to be doing then waiting in traffic all day

Not in this weather they dont. If you have some place important to be then you leave yourself several hours extra to get there. The number 1 importance in this weather is arriving in one piece. If that means driving at 20mph on an icy road then so be it. If you dont like that then either sell your car or move to a sunnier climate where it doesnt snow.

Quazzie

I was the same. I gathered enough momentum to reach the top of the hill only to be stopped halfway by a driver who was trying it in first gear. I stopped, parked up, got out and gave her a push till she got enough speed to get going again. Me not having the benefit of the push had to slowly roll back down the hill and start again. Got momentum and was going fine till I reach the top of the hill where the same silly bint was stopped again and cue the whole scenario repeating itself. :mad:

axer

Builderfromhell wrote: »

People driving ridiculously slow on clear gritted roads.
4 x4 drivers driving too slow on roads with snow.

All the other points I agree with but these two make your post fall into the list below "Have seen people driving with windscreens mostly obscured by ice."

Fighting Irish

Simplest way to do this would beto fine people big money anytime they cause a car crash