gardai at the toll bridge

mikesvr6

Just wondering what the gardai were doing at the toll bridge on the m6? they redirected me off the motorway and down country lanes seemingly to find my own way to galway...

Shanley

There has been a serious crash

mikesvr6

thought as much, hope all involved are ok.

xo.mary

I heard (from an eye witness) that a car hit a cow that had gotten on the motorway. Don't think it's good news for the cow

Stench Blossoms

That's not the first time I've heard of a cow being on the motorway.

readmylips

loada BULL perhaps

ronnie3585

Hitting a cow at motorway speed is extremely serious, given the weight of the animal. Most people don't walk away from a crash like that.

GekkePrutser

Yeah we were one of the ones redirected as well, I didn't manage to find my way back to the motorway until way after Loughrea. Goes to show how brilliant these motorways are. So easy to get around and so difficult without them.

We were thinking along the same lines, e.g. accident. I hope those people from the crash survived, hitting a cow is very serious indeed at motorway speeds. It weighs the same as a small car. I hope the cow didn't suffer either.

I'm surprised this happened, the fencing around the motorway seems to be very solid, and it's all the same everywhere so I guess it was built by the motorway construction company.

alimegs

I passed this last night not long after it happened, loooked pretty serious, car on its rough, about 3 fire brigades at it..

Hope all are ok

XxMCRxBabyxX

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Hitting a cow at motorway speed is extremely serious, given the weight of the animal. Most people don't walk away from a crash like that.

When I was still in Botswana, a family lost three of their kids and had one put in a wheelchair after their car hit a cow and flipped off the road. One of the kids had been in my class and was only about seven. His older and younger sisters also died.

rain on

I was wondering what happened there, there was nothing on the news or on the AA roadwatch website, I was hoping it wasn't a crash. An ambulance went past just as we rejoined the motorway at Loughrea. I hope all involved are OK.

Quazzie

Were the Gardai telling people 'moooo-ve along, nothing to see here'

alimegs

car on its roof, sorry

sentient_6

Apologies for sounding a bit selfish.......but i take it the motorway is open for business today? There's nothing on AA Roadwatch anyway.

Head The Wall

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Hitting a cow at motorway speed is extremely serious, given the weight of the animal. Most people don't walk away from a crash like that.

Not seeing a cow on the motorway is careless driving if you ask me.

There was also a two car collision on the stretch of motorway between the two Ballinasloe exits last week, hopefully it was a merging accident and not two cars driving the same direction on the motorway. Knowing Irish Drivers they were probably trying to drive in the overtaking lane while there was no one to overtake.

Das Kitty

Head The Wall wrote: »

Not seeing a cow on the motorway is careless driving if you ask me.

Unless cows are fitted with headlights these days you'd have little or no chance of spotting it in the dark until you were almost on top of it.

samdeman

Head The Wall wrote: »

Not seeing a cow on the motorway is careless driving if you ask me.


stupid comment

fearruanua

what a ridiculous comment from head the wall. not seeing a probably dark coloured cow in the middle of the night on the motorway is careless driving!!!!! could you explain why you think this?

Head The Wall

Think what ye want, I know with headlights on that stretch of motorway you can see half a mile or more in front of you.

Do ye not think that just maybe the driver wasn't paying full attention, unless ye have definitive evidence your comments are as ridiculous as mine. Cows don't need headlights either as cars have them, basically what I am hearing here is that people will drive blindly into any inanimate object that is not lit up.

I hope I never meet any of ye on the roads because it seems like ye have 0% faith in your driving abilities.

Das Kitty

Cows are not inanimate, they tend to run around the place.

Just saying.

Head The Wall

Yes but from half a mile away if someone doesn't see something they ate not paying attention. It doesn't take that long to slow a car from 120k to astop.

Put a human in dark clothes in this situation, people are saying they will just drive into them. You may have an excuse on a dark twist country road but on a motorway there should be no excuse

MyKeyG

Head The Wall wrote: »

Not seeing a cow on the motorway is careless driving if you ask me.

There was also a two car collision on the stretch of motorway between the two Ballinasloe exits last week, hopefully it was a merging accident and not two cars driving the same direction on the motorway. Knowing Irish Drivers they were probably trying to drive in the overtaking lane while there was no one to overtake.

Yeah you do have to wonder what the story is. I'm not saying it's related and I hope nobody was hurt in this accident but I was on the main Dublin to Limerick motorway twice in the last few weeks (well 4 times there and back, there and back) and I was astounded at the speeds. My sister was tipping along at 120 and the speed people were passing us out at was remarkable. Where are all these speed camera vans?

GekkePrutser

Head The Wall wrote: »

Yes but from half a mile away if someone doesn't see something they ate not paying attention. It doesn't take that long to slow a car from 120k to astop.

Put a human in dark clothes in this situation, people are saying they will just drive into them. You may have an excuse on a dark twist country road but on a motorway there should be no excuse

People don't have an excuse walking on a motorway. If at all necessary in order to to get to a phone or something they should walk on the emergency lane or even better, behind the guard rails. But a cow doesn't have that knowledge.

And it does take a longer time than you think stopping from 120kph, especially if the cow was in a bend or something, or was hidden from view by a truck. It could have suddenly jumped up and walked around, it was probably already agitated because of other cars passing at high speeds.

I've had similar situations, like when what I thought was a rock at the side of the road suddenly got up and walked off. I wouldn't blame it on the driver without knowing exactly what happened.

biko

I wonder sometimes - is this the most argumentative forum on boards?
Anyway, no cow today.