M50 traffic slow this evening because of "personal tragedy"..

JonathanAnon

Just heard it on Newstalk there.. People are asked to avoid the M50 as it's slow moving because of what Gardaí described as a personal tragedy.... Did somebody jump off one of the bridges?

DrumSteve

middle lane hoggers probably.

karrimor

DrumSteve wrote: »

middle lane hoggers probably.

how would that be a personal tragedy big man

DrumSteve

Cos it would make people late.

akura

"Gardai are advising drivers to avoid the M50 motorway in Dublin – near the Blanchardstown exit – tonight.

Serious traffic jams are reported after an incident this evening.

The road is blocked after what Gardai are describing as a “personal tragedy”.

Gardai are advising motorists to avoid Junction 6 Blanchardstown and for Southbound drivers to exit at Junction 5 Finglas."

http://www.newstalk.ie/2012/news/traffic-disruption-on-dublins-m50/


Soooo what's a personal tragedy??

dodderangler

Where bouts on m50 exactly sometimes I drive home that way to avoid traffic lights
I'm assumin has something to do with a death on the road with a car not bein involved

karrimor

DrumSteve wrote: »

Cos it would make people late.

you are piece of sh*t

Pottler

karrimor wrote: »

you are piece of sh*t

Location, Location, location.

My name is URL

I think it's pretty obvious what they mean. Details must not really be necessary at this time considering they haven't already been released.

JonathanAnon

akura wrote: »

Soooo what's a personal tragedy??

Somebody's pet rabbit hopped on to the motorway?

dodderangler

The Garda will prob not give a statement about it until they has resolved it and if it is a body they will not give statement until family is informed
I think that's how it works

starbelgrade

The M50 must be the shittiest motorway in Ireland.

It's inhabited by the some of the worst drivers in the country, has a stupidly low speed limit, an over-priced toll, and doesn't even go anywhere nice.

karrimor

DrumSteve wrote: »

Cos it would make people late.

i hope it some one you know

girl2

karrimor wrote: »

i hope it some one you know

Oh Jesus, I don't think you should say that (no matter how bad someone's post is).

baldbear

Shocking. rip.

miamee

Drove over M50 interchange about an hour ago. Garda vehicle blocking the filter lane onto south bound M50 and when we went over the M50 on N3, there were a lot of blue lights down on the south bound side. Too far away to see anything, probably a bit before where the toll cameras are.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Rumours abound on FB and twitter that a body was thrown from a car. Probably all lies but fairly big garda presence around.

staker

Someone somewhere hasn't received their bad news yet, I've family on the road up there so hope it's not me!
Hate these threads.

karrimor

girl2 wrote: »

Oh Jesus, I don't think you should say that (no matter how bad someone's post is).

well some people are evil @ drumsteve

El Weirdo

karrimor wrote: »

i hope it some one you know

Banned.

keith16

staker wrote: »

Someone somewhere hasn't received their bad news yet, I've family on the road up there so hope it's not me!
Hate these threads.

I think you are out of the woods if you can type the above.

msg11

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Just heard it on Newstalk there.. People are asked to avoid the M50 as it's slow moving because of what Gardaí described as a personal tragedy.... Did somebody jump off one of the bridges?

On the traffic cameras it's seems to be moving fine? Fairly empty mind you ..

admiralofthefleet

msg11 wrote: »

On the traffic cameras it's seems to be moving fine? Fairly empty mind you ..

are they the cameras on the DCC website?

msg11

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

are they the cameras on the DCC website?

Yeah

msg11

Pottler wrote: »

Crappy, but has to be said... Do you mean the body??

What ? Who mentioned any body ?

Boombastic

Incident after J6 Blanch - AA website

There is an incident blocking the M50 southbound after J6 Blanchardstown
Updated: 09/10/2012 22:29:44 Gardai are at the scene and motorists are advised to exit at J5 Finglas

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

The traffic cams on the DCC website only show the roundabout at the M50, which would be quiet as nothing can get on or off at that exit.

oppenheimer1

msg11 wrote: »

On the traffic cameras it's seems to be moving fine? Fairly empty mind you ..

The camera at Blanchardstown stopped updating at 23:10 or thereabouts.

JonathanAnon

msg11 wrote: »

On the traffic cameras it's seems to be moving fine? Fairly empty mind you ..

Probably same as AA roadwatch, by the time they announce a traffic jam, it's cleared.

msg11

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

The traffic cams on the DCC website only show the roundabout at the M50, which would be quiet as nothing can get on or off at that exit.

My bad, DCC we are talking about I forgot. Can't even organize a few real time cameras. You swear we actually live in the stone age in Ireland.

Stheno

msg11 wrote: »

My bad, DCC we are talking about I forgot. Can't even organize a few real time cameras. You swear we actually live in the stone age in Ireland.

They quite likely shut them down or froze them at a certain time if there is something upsetting there?

Sorcha16

I guess you never know what somebody else is going through when you're going about your evening. Really puts all the trivial silliness here into perspective

tallaghtmick

Drove Nbound and seen the fire brigade there too.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Glenda Gilson (her off TV3 and Castleknock local) tweeted a picture of the view southbound from the bridge about an hour ago, seems to think it's a really bad accident. Too far away from the bridge to be a jumper, I'd think.

msg11

Stheno wrote: »

They quite likely shut them down or froze them at a certain time if there is something upsetting there?

Nah they are just useless in general. Though they might have got there act together. Sure one of the cameras is called 'The Blanchardstown Roundabout', thing is there is no roundabout it's gone about a year and the camera is looking at well nothing.

Few real time cameras wouldn't go a miss.

Wouldn't surprise me if DCC turned off all there cameras off over one incident.

JonathanAnon

Will none of ye run down and see what's going on ...

Fekn lazy dubs.. :pac:

Cookie_Monster

it'd want to be a pretty big person to block all 4 lanes :eek:

msg11

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Will none of ye run down and see what's going on ...

Fekn lazy dubs.. :pac:

I would venture up, don't want to get caught in the middle of the traffic. .

Regardless hope nobody is dead..

DyldeBrill

this has me intrigued to what has happened!

searching for answers as we speak!

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

@NealCocklin not so much a car crash, someone jumped off the bridge infront of a truck .... Just was out there, so awful

Saw something earlier about someone passing and it looked like there was just a truck in the middle of the road. Seems to fit with that tweet above.

rogieop

someone jumps from the bridge, in front of a truck, truck swerves and crashes blocking four lanes.

makes sense unfortunately.

Hope the truck driver is ok. dont hold much hope for the jumper.

Stheno

rogieop wrote: »

someone jumps from the bridge, in front of a truck, truck swerves and crashes blocking four lanes.

makes sense unfortunately.

Hope the truck driver is ok. dont hold much hope for the jumper.

If that's the case then god love the poor family getting that news.

And the truck driver

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

^Would explain why so many ambulances and fire engines too. Truck swerves or stops suddenly, others must have been hurt too.

What an awful thing to happen. It's quite surprising actually that it doesn't happen more. Ireland has quite a high rate of suicide but it's rare to hear of it happening this way.

awec

Stheno wrote: »

If that's the case then god love the poor family getting that news.

And the truck driver

And anyone who witnessed such a thing.

My name is URL

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

^Would explain why so many ambulances and fire engines too. Truck swerves or stops suddenly, others must have been hurt too.

What an awful thing to happen. It's quite surprising actually that it doesn't happen more. Ireland has quite a high rate of suicide but it's rare to hear of it happening this way.

It's really not that rare at all. Also, nobody can know if it was suicide. It's not really our place to judge based on a few randomers tweets and accounts of what they witnessed.

Members of the persons own family may not yet be aware of what happened.

unclebill98

. Nope I'm wrong...

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

My name is URL wrote: »

It's really not that rare at all. Also, nobody can know if it was suicide. It's not really our place to judge based on a few randomers tweets and accounts of what they witnessed.

Members of the persons own family may not yet be aware of what happened.

I've never heard of someone jumping off a motorway bridge into traffic. Heard a few stories of people jumping off bridges in Scotland but never here.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

unclebill98 wrote: »

There might have been a shooting. All over a mates facebook.

16 year old shot in a drive by in Crumlin around 9pm. Not sure it would have anything to do with this.

Stheno

awec wrote: »

And anyone who witnessed such a thing.

True

Lapin

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Heard a few stories of people jumping off bridges in Scotland but never here.

They've a good choice of DIY death bridges there.



And no chance of traumatising innocent motorists below either.

suicide_circus

Lapin wrote: »

They've a good choice of DIY death bridges there.



And no chance of traumatising innocent motorists below either.

Unnecessary and out of order