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

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

randy hickey

Thank you El Wierdo.

Lapin

suicide_circus wrote: »

Unnecessary and out of order

Not like your username eh ?

Stheno

randy hickey wrote: »

Thank you El Wierdo.

And from me.

suicide_circus

Lapin wrote: »

Not like your username eh ?

it's the name of a club in Berlin and it alludes to a subject close to me.

mar48

akura wrote: »

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


Soooo what's a personal tragedy??

Would it mean that a member of the Garda Force was involved? That's the only reason I can think of as to why they would allude to it as a personal tragedy

keith16

mar48 wrote: »

akura wrote: »

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


Soooo what's a personal tragedy??

Would it mean that a member of the Garda Force was involved? That's the only reason I can think of as to why they would allude to it as a personal tragedy

Not sure I get your logic there...

JonathanAnon

keith16 wrote: »

Not sure I get your logic there...

tbh, the term "personal tragedy" doesnt make sense in any way... It is not a personal tragedy, many people were affected, not just the guy who jumped...

I do agree with my old pal Lapin above, that the person could have chosen somewhere that it wouldnt affect anybody else, but you dont think about that at the time.

Stheno

keith16 wrote: »

Not sure I get your logic there...

That the gardai were personally affected as a result of one of their own being hurt?

mar48

What I mean is, whenever a member of An Garda Síochána is killed or injured the entire force takes it personally.

Lapin

suicide_circus wrote: »

it's the name of a club in Berlin and it alludes to a subject close to me.

So what. It has the very topic of this thread in its title. Not everyone knows about clubs in Berlin.

Anyway, I'm not going to go off topic over it.

My first thoughts tonight are with that poor truck driver.

What happened earlier on the M50 was indeed tragic.
And my sympathy goes to those connected to the deceased.


But I'm not going to shed any tears for someone I didn't know.
Unfortunately suicide is a sad fact of life (and death) and all too common.

In the past two months I have attended the funerals of 3 people who chose what I call DIY death.
Its more apt than that bloody awful PC term 'Died by Suicide'.

Ans I make no apology for referring to the Forth Bridges as I did in response to an earlier post. They are well known for suicide jumps.
And what I said was entirely true.

Jumping 100s of feet into an estuary only harms the person that jumped.
Jumping from an overpass on to a busy motorway potentially fúcks up the lives of many more innocent people.