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BBC: Worlds Most Dangerous Roads

  • 05-09-2011 10:43pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭


    New series on BBC every Sunday night for the next few weeks.

    The one on last night was the Dalton Highway in Alaska. Charlie Boorman and Sue Perkins drove the entire highway in what I think was a Ford 150.

    Good enough show. Driving in the snow storms with zero visability and a 30 trucks up your hole, all the time while driving on near ice :eek:

    Can't wait for the episode doing the Yungas Road.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    Seen a bit of it last night and enjoyed it even though I can't stand Charlie " my dad don't deliverance" boorman.
    Some mental road in fairness.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    Obviously never been on the M7/8 after an all Ireland final:pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭Fishtits


    India has to be the most hazardous commute in my experience. Fate coupled with the old I'm the biggest so I have right of way adage can only result in disaster.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 208 ✭✭Hiace.


    They could do a programme up in Donegal i'd say.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    They should just go to india like the Ice Road truckers did! Those bus drivers were complete and utter nut jobs!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 680 ✭✭✭icescreamqueen


    Hiace. wrote: »
    They could do a programme up in Donegal i'd say.

    Em why?? Sick to the teeth of coming on this forum and reading comments like this about Donegal drivers. They are no better or worse than the rest of the country and that's speaking from experience! People make comments like this without having ever visited Donegal, nevermind driven in Donegal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Hiace. wrote: »
    They could do a programme up in Donegal i'd say.

    Em why?? Sick to the teeth of coming on this forum and reading comments like this about Donegal drivers. They are no better or worse than the rest of the country and that's speaking from experience! People make comments like this without having ever visited Donegal, nevermind driven in Donegal.

    Being a regular visitor to Donegal, they are terrible and dangerous. Dirt tracks with 100kmh speed limits etc. Nothing to do with the drivers just the road types and their general conditions.


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 6,817 ✭✭✭jenizzle


    The Dalton Highway was on Season 3 of Ice Road Truckers - would love to give it a lash... if the google man can do it, anyone can!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭cjt156


    MugMugs wrote: »
    Being a regular visitor to Donegal, they are terrible and dangerous. Dirt tracks with 100kmh speed limits etc. Nothing to do with the drivers just the road types and their general conditions.

    I've also been a regular visitor to Donegal and would disagree - it's got a lot to do with the drivers too.
    Have a look at these stats - Donegal has the second highest fatality rate. Beaten only by Dublin - which has almost ten times the population.

    Clicky-link

    Back on topic; enjoyed the show too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 680 ✭✭✭icescreamqueen


    cjt156 wrote: »
    I've also been a regular visitor to Donegal and would disagree - it's got a lot to do with the drivers too.
    Have a look at these stats - Donegal has the second highest fatality rate. Beaten only by Dublin - which has almost ten times the population.

    Clicky-link

    Back on topic; enjoyed the show too.

    Unfortunately, of those 19 people killed on Donegal's road in 2010, 8 were killed in the same crash. I honestly don't think the roads or drivers are any worse than the rest of the country. Not sure where these dirt tracks with a 100km speed limit are, certainly not anywhere near where I live. You have to remember that Donegal is a huge county with miles and miles of varied road types. We also have to pass the same driving test, as like everyone else in the country.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Unfortunately, of those 19 people killed on Donegal's road in 2010, 8 were killed in the same crash. I honestly don't think the roads or drivers are any worse than the rest of the country. Not sure where these dirt tracks with a 100km speed limit are, certainly not anywhere near where I live. You have to remember that Donegal is a huge county with miles and miles of varied road types. We also have to pass the same driving test, as like everyone else in the country.


    I dont dispute the competence of any Donegal person's driving abilities.

    Try negotiate this road in the pi$$ing rain when some tulip comes around the corner at a tonne.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭Pique


    MugMugs wrote: »
    I dont dispute the competence of any Donegal person's driving abilities.

    Try negotiate this road in the pi$$ing rain when some tulip comes around the corner at a tonne.

    Aw seriously man, could you find a more stereotypical country boreen to back up your argument ?

    Roads like that exist all over the country and are not driven at 100kph by too many people.

    I also don't know of any 'dirt tracks' in Donegal, or indeed any other county, that is classified as an official road.

    Now roads in Donegal aren't great, but they have got better and tbh, twisty narrow N or R routes are interesting and don't necessarily equate to bad. If some muppet want's to drive like he's invincible, then the road type or the county is irrelevant.

    Of course, any rural area is full of god-bothering, sheep-shaggers with baling twine to keep their trousers up too. (well if you're gonna start with the stereotypes, I may as well join in)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Pique wrote: »
    Of course, any rural area is full of god-bothering, sheep-shaggers with baling twine to keep their trousers up too. (well if you're gonna start with the stereotypes, I may as well join in)


    You've been watching me at my front gate ? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,712 ✭✭✭✭R.O.R


    Saw some of this the other night too.

    Wonder if it was a set up that the trucker that pulled the pick up out of the ditch was Jack Jesse - King of the Dalton? Expect to see the same event on season 4 of IRT, from a different camera angle?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭Notch000


    Can't wait for the episode doing the Yungas Road.


    Here some good footage of that Rd, i did this bike run twice last year, was way freakier going back up in a truck another time

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3dnOoJKvso


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Pique wrote: »
    I also don't know of any 'dirt tracks' in Donegal, or indeed any other county, that is classified as an official road.

    I'd say the road from Limerick to Cork qualifies, especially the crater strewn gravel track that winds itself through Buttevant.
    One of the country's main traffic arteries and it can only be described as a rutted track.
    But there are many of those, difference is they're all bypassed now.
    But as for Limerick to Cork, that is little more than a dirt track and will remain so for the next hundred years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 Whitedoor




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,363 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    2 years later....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 Whitedoor


    Slow at planning :) but trying the best we can :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Should head Malin Head to Islay, on to Aberdeen, across and up through Norway and across Siberia and hop the Aleutian Islands into Alaska. Now that would be a trip


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