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Yet more money wasted by the RSA; Ridiculous Motorway Safety Campaign

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    #32
    Sean Kinvarra
    Registered Users Posts: 362 ✭✭Sean Kinvarra


    If you were to tattoo " keep left" on a hoggers forehead he or she will still use lane two or three even when nothing on left. On the other hand if hogger is in lane 3 of a 4 lane motorway road, you will still have to make six separate lane changes pass and to get back into driving land. So one is as bad as the other


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    #33
    Sean Kinvarra
    Registered Users Posts: 362 ✭✭Sean Kinvarra


    seamus wrote: »
    So following on from a cyclist safety campaign which contained inaccurate information, required data from 13 years of collisions to look plausible and which failed to highlight the most important dangers to cyclists, the RSA have moved onto the next bastion of dangerousness: Motorways.

    Yes, a sophisticated advertising campaign aimed at making the safest roads in the country a tiny bit safer.

    http://www.rsa.ie/Utility/News/2011/New-Awareness-Campaign-on-Motorway-Safety-Launched/

    Yes, despite motorways accounting for just 2% of all fatalities in a five-year period, the RSA in their infinite wisdom have decided that people need to be told, "Don't walk on the motorway" or "Don't drive the wrong way down the motorway".

    These are clearly more important messages than "Never overtake on a solid white line" or, "An 80km/h limit on a boreen doesn't mean that 80km/h is safe". Or even instead of putting up "Caution: Hidden entrance" or "Accident Black spot" signs, they should have the power to force the local authority to alter the road to correct these problems.

    Why are we spending good money on the RSA when they continually fail to out-and-out address the primary causes of road deaths in this country, instead choosing to focus on blanket terms like "speeding"?


    And even when they say " speeding" they don't tell you that inappropriate speeding is much more dangerous than excessive speeding
    They don't tell you that text driving is more dangerous than drink driving
    They don't tell you that if only the passenger in the back seat is drunk and that car is involved in a single vehicle crash, it would be classed as a drink related crash


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    #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sean Kinvarra wrote: »
    If you were to tattoo " keep left" on a hoggers forehead he or she will still use lane two or three even when nothing on left. On the other hand if hogger is in lane 3 of a 4 lane motorway road, you will still have to make six separate lane changes pass and to get back into driving land. So one is as bad as the other

    That's because you forgot to tattoo it back-to-front, they can't read it in the mirror.


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    #35
    BuffyBot
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 24,924 Mod ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    Sean Kinvarra wrote: »
    If you were to tattoo " keep left" on a hoggers forehead he or she will still use lane two or three even when nothing on left. On the other hand if hogger is in lane 3 of a 4 lane motorway road, you will still have to make six separate lane changes pass and to get back into driving land. So one is as bad as the other

    Perhaps we can put "Don't dig up two year old threads" on yours :)


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