Dangerous driver on M50...

Sids Not

Anyone else on here travelling southbound just after Sandyford at around 3.15 pm...?
A silver 10-d- VW Passat came up on the inside lane at speed (out side lane was travelling at 120) from the on-ramp south bound..Tried to pull in front of me but there was nowhere for him to go..takes to the hard shoulder, passes a couple of cars..back to inside lane..more slower cars, forces his way into the outside lane ,almost causing a pile up...theres a van in front of me so i couldnt see him for a few seconds..then he re-appears in the inside, then to the hard shoulder again...he continues this as far as i could see him ,which was around Leopardstown off ramp..he may have kept going towards Cherrywood/Bray....
It happened so fast that all i saw was the 10 D part of the reg....
TBH the driver didnt look like he'd robbed the car...hope he made his important meeting...:rolleyes:
BTW if anyone else saw this and noted the reg, i've reported it to the Gardai...and i would gladly take time off work to go to court if it came to that...;)

rescue16

Sids Not wrote: »

Anyone else on here travelling southbound just after Sandyford at around 3.15 pm...?
A silver 10-d- VW Passat came up on the inside lane at speed (out side lane was travelling at 120) from the on-ramp south bound..Tried to pull in front of me but there was nowhere for him to go..takes to the hard shoulder, passes a couple of cars..back to inside lane..more slower cars, forces his way into the outside lane ,almost causing a pile up...theres a van in front of me so i couldnt see him for a few seconds..then he re-appears in the inside, then to the hard shoulder again...he continues this as far as i could see him ,which was around Leopardstown off ramp..he may have kept going towards Cherrywood/Bray....
It happened so fast that all i saw was the 10 D part of the reg....
TBH the driver didnt look like he'd robbed the car...hope he made his important meeting...:rolleyes:
BTW if anyone else saw this and noted the reg, i've reported it to the Gardai...and i would gladly take time off work to go to court if it came to that...;)

Are you sure it was not a garda car someone told me that they are using vw passats now they would have a blue light on the dash board and more than likely two small ones on the back window and they would also have a couple of ariels on top of the car could be 3 ariels.

Chriscl1

maybe its national lets go mental in passats day. today i was on the old cork road approaching durrow or somewhere like that behind an octavia doing around 110kph when a black passat decided to pass the gold passat behind me, me then the octavia in front of me and then the gold one decided to follow him and this was a solid white line piece of road. twats

-Corkie-

Chriscl1 wrote: »

maybe its national lets go mental in passats day. today i was on the old cork road approaching durrow or somewhere like that behind an octavia doing around 110kph when a black passat decided to pass the gold passat behind me, me then the octavia in front of me and then the gold one decided to follow him and this was a solid white line piece of road. twats

He must have got jealous...:pac:

Anan1

I'd be tempted to hoist the black flag myself were I forced to drive a Passat every day.

Mr.Boots

My observation...

Passat=Travelers Car (their favourit saloon car).
Traveler=Bad Driver (generally).

Just a thought.

johnos1984

Mr.Boots wrote: »

My observation...

Passat=Travelers Car (their favourit saloon car).
Traveler=Bad Driver (generally).

Just a thought.

:rolleyes:

Jesus I have seen different people of all backgrounds driving different cars good and badly.

What a load of racist rubbish

Mr.Boots

johnos1984 wrote: »

:rolleyes:

Jesus I have seen different people of all backgrounds driving different cars good and badly.

What a load of racist rubbish

Not meant to be taken too seriously

Atomic Pineapple

I travel the M50 twice a week, Friday evening going home around 6:30 pm and Sunday evening coming back up to Dublin around 7 or 8pm and I see behavior thats at least similar to what the OP has described on almost every journey.

johnos1984

Mr.Boots wrote: »

Not meant to be taken too seriously

No problem

In fairness I would just say there was a major a$$hole behind the wheel who was in a rush for whatever reason.

Maybe he was caught with the neighbours wife and had to make a quick exit

mikemac

From reading that it could well have been a garda car

Minstrel27

johnos1984 wrote: »

What a load of racist rubbish

Racist?

-Corkie-

Mr.Boots wrote: »

My observation...

Passat=Traveller`s Car (their favourite saloon car).
Traveller=Bad Driver (generally).

Just a thought.

WTF?

johnos1984

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Racist?

Targeting a ethnic minority is racist, its not limited to people of a different skin colour

http://www.nccri.ie/travellr.html

whowantstwoknow

feelingstressed wrote: »

From reading that it could well have been a garda car

Then why not put on its lights (or whatever an unmarked car has) to let people know...

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Are the Gardai exempt from every rule of the road? Surely they can't drive like cnuts like the op described? Wouldn't they have to have their flashers off?

If you noticed a squad car marked or unmarked driving wrecklessly without their lights off, forcing you to suddenly break, could you get done for a traffic offense if you beep or flash your lights at them?

07 silver passat driver is very close to being reported. I see the twat every few weeks doing something very stupid, I don't have his full reg yet but when I do I will be reporting him.

Garda jeep on the N11 yesterday driving up peoples arse, when they don't move the flashers go on, and on the ignorant so and so goes. Lane hopping like mad, sirens and flashers were not on. Very dangerous driving. At least put your flashers on you scumbag. I didn't get his reg he moved so fast. I would have reported him too.

UhOh

I'm of the opinion most Passat drivers are ignorant boll**ks's on the road......the Passat seems to be a real moron magnet.
They seem to be of the opinion Passat's are the fastest cars on the road also & get quite upset when they're overtakin

Bruthal

UhOh wrote: »

I'm of the opinion most Passat drivers are ignorant boll**ks's on the road......the Passat seems to be a real moron magnet.
They seem to be of the opinion Passat's are the fastest cars on the road also & get quite upset when they're overtakin

I'm of the opinion most Passat drivers are ignorant boll**ks's on the road

Hannibal

I'd be fairly sure it wasnt a Garda car, Irish people in general cant grasp the concept of motorway driving as this type of behaviour is common place. Just the other day on the M50 I was coming up to overtake a Micra so I pulled out into the overtaking lane and this car (which was doing about 60kmph) pulls out on front of me into the overtaking lane causing me to break sharply and duck back into the central lane, this car was driven by a woman of African appearance with L plates so its goes to show its not all Irish. I spent a lot of time on the M50, M9 and M1 and there's a lot of people who use the overtaking lane for cruising at 90kmph causing other cars to slalom all over the place

rescue16

Mr.Boots wrote: »

My observation...

Passat=Travelers Car (their favourit saloon car).
Traveler=Bad Driver (generally).

Just a thought.

Never tought of that !! And you are right seen loads of them cousins driving them !!

ThisRegard

If I said all Cork people were ****e drivers would that be racist ? There was nothing racist in that guys statement.

johnos1984

ThisRegard wrote: »

If I said all Cork people were ****e drivers would that be racist ? There was nothing racist in that guys statement.

Cork people aren't an ethnic minority and if you choose to actually read the thread and not make yourself look like a 'tard you would see he meant it jokingly and also I posted a link which in fact confirms members of the traveling community as an ethnic minority.

So in answer to your question, yes it was racist however the poster confirmed it was meant jokingly. A smiley face at the start would of shown us that what he/she meant was in jest.

If you have a problem with my posts report them

ThisRegard

<p>Neither are travellers.
Post the link so, and an independent one, not from an interest group. They want to be recognised as an ethnic group but they're not. This is all off topic of course, but I may take you seriously if you didn't resort to personal insults when you try debate with someone.</p>

johnos1984

ThisRegard wrote: »

Post the link so.

Its already posted :rolleyes:

Learn to read

I can't be bothered to argue with someone who accepts casual racism or discrimination either although you do seem to be rather offended at being labelled a "'tard" so I fail to see how you can argue that labelling a ethnic minority is right

ThisRegard

I'm the very last person that can be labelled a racist but it's a simple fact that travellers are not a recognized ethnic minority and no amount of brow beating from bleeding hearts like yourself looking to find offence in anything have yet to change that.

johnos1984

ThisRegard wrote: »

I'm the very last person that can be labelled a racist but it's a simple fact that travellers are not a recognized ethnic minority and no amount of brow beating from bleeding hearts like yourself looking to find offence in anything have yet to change that.

Its not brow beating.

They have been recognised as an ethnic minority in Britain for over 10 years now and its rather shameful that we haven't followed suit here.

If you want to keep discussing it PM me

DublinWriter

Probably a Mexican.

No wait, they're lazy and eat sick covered with cheese according to Top Gear.

I really don't know who to get my racial stereotypes from any more and I still don't know what a tracker mortgage is.

Gary ITR

This thread is making my eyes bleed. If the subject can be discussed in a civilised manner then go right ahead. As for this thread, it's done