Wrong way..again!!!!

gutteruu

Driving to Limerick this morning and found the guy in the clip below. Twice in the last 6 months and 3 times in 5 years I have met someone driving the wrong way down the motorway towards me!

Not 1 person in Ireland is trained or tested how to use motorways/dual-carrageways. At what point does the RSA need a kick in the hole to add it to the driving training? Lets bury a few people before we cop on ??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMdiRg2tL54

endacl

There's Charles Darwin up to his old tricks again!

Nemeses

If you managed to get the reg from your camera - I would report this to the Gardai, Maybe someone could take responsibility for this once and for all..

Eric Cartman

and travelling against the right hand lane, it couldnt be any worse if they tried. People like this should be banned off the road for life.

tossy

Did they do a U turn ? seems to be turning around up ahead of you at start,which means they were on a motorway going the right way and thought.....d'ya know what.... :eek::rolleyes:

msg11

Wow.. How someone like that is capable of using the same roads as me actually scares me a little !

endacl

Nemeses wrote: »

If you managed to get the reg from your camera - I would report this to the Gardai, Maybe someone could take responsibility for this once and for all..

+1 Report.

djimi

gutteruu wrote: »

Not 1 person in Ireland is trained or tested how to use motorways/dual-carrageways. At what point does the RSA need a kick in the hole to add it to the driving training? Lets bury a few people before we cop on ??

This has nothing to do with the lack of motorway training to be fair; this person is simply criminally stupid and needs locking up for everyones safety.

ardmacha

Send the video to the Gardai.

check_six

Saw someone turn right out of the RDS yesterday and head down the wrong side of the road (follow the red line on the pic).

Of course, there was a car coming straight at them. The oncoming car beeped and looked like they were thinking about jamming on(!). The lunatic hit the gas, and headed for the rapidly dwindling gap between the end of the island and the oncoming vehicle (roughly where the white van is in the pic).

I let out a shriek of alarm from my observation point (not in the way of either car, but close enough). The nutter escaped unscathed, but it really makes you wonder what is going on in these people's heads!

Scortho

Should be a minimum of a years ban and the requirement to sit your driving test again.
Probably someone who never did a driving test anyway.
Ffs it's kinda common sense, drive in the same direction as the other cars on a feckin motorway.

Nemeses

djimi wrote: »

This has nothing to do with the lack of motorway training to be fair; this person is simply criminally stupid and needs locking up for everyones safety.

I would agree on this, Also its part of the rules of the road / Theory test on how to use a motorway correctly.

Besides, only a fool would not notice his lane merging into two lanes and other traffic going the same direction as themselves...

Shouldn't be on the road... full stop.

yop

Are you sure you weren't going the wrong way, that driver looks totally responsible and is obviously trying to get out of your way....

Glebee

tossy wrote: »

Did they do a U turn ? seems to be turning around up ahead of you at start,which means they were on a motorway going the right way and though,d'ya know what.... :eek::rolleyes:

Sweet Jesus they did do a u turn. Stupidity of the highest level

Tabnabs

check_six wrote: »

Saw someone turn right out of the RDS yesterday and head down the wrong side of the road (follow the red line on the pic).

Of course, there was a car coming straight at them. The oncoming car beeped and looked like they were thinking about jamming on(!). The lunatic hit the gas, and headed for the rapidly dwindling gap between the end of the island and the oncoming vehicle (roughly where the white van is in the pic).

I let out a shriek of alarm from my observation point (not in the way of either car, but close enough). The nutter escaped unscathed, but it really makes you wonder what is going on in these people's heads!

The amount of times I've seen someone turn off the Clonskeagh Road onto Bird Avenue at this junction http://goo.gl/maps/wBPpR

People have such poor observational skills.

MugMugs

I'd have to echo previous statements.

Nothing to do with Motorway training more to do with stupidity !

SteelyDanJalapeno

That was a U Turn! absolutely insane.

KeithTS

In all fairness, I'd say its quite tricky top pull off a 3 point turn on a motorway without killing somebody.
A little credit is due here people!

MugMugs

KeithTS wrote: »

A little credit is due here people!

To somebody driving down the wrong way of a fast lane of a motorway?

you're taking the piss, right?

KeithTS

MugMugs wrote: »

you're taking the piss, right?

Of course I'm taking the bloody piss!!!

markpb

MugMugs wrote: »

To somebody driving down the wrong way of a fast lane of a motorway?

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

MarkR

I met a guy at the same place several years back. Nearly pooped my pants.

H3llR4iser

Just can't figure out what must be going in these loon's heads, seriously, U-Turn on a dual carriageway.

Unfortunately, I don't think there is any amount of training that would take care of this kind of maneuvers, it just takes stupidity and lack of awareness - innate, ehm, "skills" than no training can eradicate.

One thing, however, can be done to try and reduce the frequency of such events: modify the exit signage on national roads and motorways. More often than not, you have a nice big panel with all the indications...a KM before the exits, which are then marked with just numbers. If you're not very familiar with the particular stretch of road, it is very easy to miss your exit when faced with exit "1", "2" and "3". Of course the sane driver will cop on, continue, leave the road at the next exit and rejoin it the proper way.

The idiot going "ah sure, it's only 200m, I'll reverse/U-Turn!", however, will always be around...

MugMugs

markpb wrote: »

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

:rolleyes:

_Kaiser_

I had this happen to me on the M3 one evening just outside Dunshaughlin.. except it was a Garda car flying up the hard shoulder!

After ringing the local station they were allegedly chasing a car doing the same thing - except I joined the M3 at Blanch and something like that isn't a thing you'd miss.. must have been a car with the new "stealth" paint job option.

Wasn't any answer either for why they were endangering other motorists themselves, rather than pursuing this invisible car from the correct side of the motorway and radioing ahead to block off exits etc

D_murph

Same thing happened me a few years back except it was everyone else that was going the wrong way :eek:.






I keed :P .

dgt

Kaiser2000 wrote: »

I had this happen to me on the M3 one evening just outside Dunshaughlin.. except it was a Garda car flying up the hard shoulder!

After ringing the local station they were allegedly chasing a car doing the same thing - except I joined the M3 at Blanch and something like that isn't a thing you'd miss.. must have been a car with the new "stealth" paint job option.

Wasn't any answer either for why they were endangering other motorists themselves, rather than pursuing this invisible car from the correct side of the motorway and radioing ahead to block off exits etc

What? Ah for f*ck sake not here too :rolleyes:

Speed trap the old N3, force people to use the motorway for that sh*te? :mad::mad::mad:

Chris_Heilong

its not rocket science, these people should be off the roads or banned from the motorway for life

Karl Stein

fasttalkerchat

It could be someone with a health problem, or worse, drink or drugs and are unaware of the danger they pose. If it was safe I would have flagged them down and taken the keys until the guards arrived.

_Kaiser_

Cathal Cloch wrote: »

Only problem with that idea is then you have a car blocking the top of an off-ramp until it's removed... and given the speed some people come off motorways that's just asking for disaster!

Again using an M3 example, about a month ago I was heading into Navan and as people familiar with that exit will know, it's a very short run-off followed by a hard left.. Too hard for the guy in the Hilux that had managed to half jump the barrier by approaching too fast.

Davidth88

You know , it's odd , I drove for 25 years in Britain before moving here 11 years ago.

I drove A LOT of miles in England ( 30k miles a year average ) , I never met anyone going the wrong way around a roundabout

Here , within 2 years or so I met 3 people , some were on big roundabouts like this ( below )
( I actually met one at this exact spot )

https://maps.google.ie/maps?q=celbridge&hl=en&ll=53.359107,-6.533432&spn=0.042669,0.077162&sll=53.3834,-8.21775&sspn=10.928649,19.753418&hnear=Celbridge,+County+Kildare&t=m&z=14&layer=c&cbll=53.359254,-6.533286&panoid=HKrhLVr6N_ob1jJ8SR_zEw&cbp=12,359.9,,0,0

Mad !

I truly think driver education is lacking here.

BTW , it seems to have got slightly better in the last couple of years , either
a) I am getting used to it
b) or the traffic has got less

Or a combination of the two perhaps ?

_Kaiser_

Davidth88 wrote: »

I truly think driver education is lacking here.

BTW , it seems to have got slightly better in the last couple of years , either
a) I am getting used to it
b) or the traffic has got less

Or a combination of the two perhaps ?

I think you're right on all 3 myself!

afatbollix

Your saying a stopped car is more dangerous than a moving car coming towards you at 120kph?

_Kaiser_

afatbollix wrote: »

Your saying a stopped car is more dangerous than a moving car coming towards you at 120kph?

Yes if you get some idiot flying up the off-ramp (with optional yet frequent bend) who doesn't spot it in time. At least on the motorway itself you have some room to work with - either the hard shoulder or other lane.

MrFrisp

According to local radio reports here this morning,a crash that killed an elderly man during the night/early morning was caused by him driving the wrong way on the motorway.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0524/452293-rta-cahir-tipperary/
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TouchingVirus

Tabnabs wrote: »

The amount of times I've seen someone turn off the Clonskeagh Road onto Bird Avenue at this junction http://goo.gl/maps/wBPpR

People have such poor observational skills.

A lot of the examples given here are pretty clear cut, there's no excuses. However this one is a bit different. From the Google Streetview pictures there is no "No Right Turn" sign on any of the posts leading up to that junction including the traffic lights. The road splits into two lanes with a painted on right hand turn arrow (slightly worn). There is no signage on the back of the posts/lights at Bird Avenue to indicate no entry. All there is is a faded solid white line and No Entry marking.

Given the lane split and misleading turn arrow on the main road and lack of signage I could totally see myself pulling into that yellow box to turn right, the traffic going the opposite direction while I waited for a turn would certainly limit my view of the No Entry sign, not to mention it looks like it's in shocking condition.

Whoever is responsible for signage at that junction needs a kick up the hole.

RustyNut

MrFrisp wrote: »

According to local radio reports here this morning,a crash that killed an elderly man during the night/early morning was caused by him driving the wrong way on the motorway.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0524/452293-rta-cahir-tipperary/
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RIP

Karl Stein

Kaiser2000 wrote: »

Only problem with that idea is then you have a car blocking the top of an off-ramp until it's removed.

Only if they were stupid enough to stop in the middle and purposefully block it.

Saw a guy reversing fast enough in the hard shoulder on the N7 this morning.

S28382

Iv seen that on the M9 a load of times. There is some stupid people out there.

Frank Black

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

It could be someone with a health problem, or worse, drink or drugs and are unaware of the danger they pose. If it was safe I would have flagged them down and taken the keys until the guards arrived.

That's probably the most 'unsafe' thing anyone could attempt in the OP's situation.

_Kaiser_

Cathal Cloch wrote: »

Only if they were stupid enough to stop in the middle and purposefully block it.

Well if someone is trying to join a motorway on the wrong side then I'd put it as fairly likely that when the tyres burst they'd just freeze and leave it where it stops.

Karl Stein

Kaiser2000 wrote: »

Well if someone is trying to join a motorway on the wrong side then I'd put it as fairly likely that when the tyres burst they'd just freeze and leave it where it stops.

I believe that being faced by angry drivers would quickly change their minds if they decided to block approaching angry truckers.

Sure we'll agree that you're wrong to disagree.

inforfun

Davidth88 wrote: »

Y
Mad !

I truly think driver education is lacking here.

BTW , it seems to have got slightly better in the last couple of years , either
a) I am getting used to it
b) or the traffic has got less

Or a combination of the two perhaps ?

You are getting used to it.
Well, i do in an case.

Before i moved here i wasnt exactly happy with the way people were driving in my country, The Netherlands. never really objected when foreigners said we were **** drivers.
Then i started driving here.
Last month i spent a couple of weeks with a lot of driving in Holland and was amazed and almost impressed with the standard of driving there. Almost perfect lane discipline, changing lanes when they can, not when they want and so on. It was so much more relaxed to drive there with 8 million cars on the road than here with... 2(?) million cars.

And for people like this, caught on camera: take away their license, if the have one, ripped it in 10 pieces and make sure these people will never be in traffic in or on anything with an engine ever again.

seamus

You know that driving against the traffic on a motorway only carries two points and an €80 fine?

It really should carry a mandatory court appearance and a year's ban. I don't understand why the legal system considers it to be such a minor offence.

It can only be explained by gross stupidity or deliberate recklessness, both of which are perfect reasons to take someone off the road.

_Kaiser_

Cathal Cloch wrote: »

I believe that being faced by angry drivers would quickly change their minds if they decided to block approaching angry truckers.

Sure we'll agree that you're wrong to disagree.

So the car passes over the spike strip, tyres burst, said eejit freezes/panics and hits the brakes.

Car is now stopped with 4 flat tyres. How are they going to move it exactly?

seamus

Kaiser2000 wrote: »

So the car passes over the spike strip, tyres burst, said eejit freezes/panics and hits the brakes.

Car is now stopped with 4 flat tyres. How are they going to move it exactly?

Really the question is whether it's preferable to have a car blocking the top off an off-ramp, or travelling at speed against the flow of traffic. I say the former is the lesser of two evils.

If the spikes are at the top of the off-ramp, any exiting vehicles should have slowed sufficiently to spot the trapped vehicle in time.

_Kaiser_

seamus wrote: »

Really the question is whether it's preferable to have a car blocking the top off an off-ramp, or travelling at speed against the flow of traffic. I say the former is the lesser of two evils.

If the spikes are at the top of the off-ramp, any exiting vehicles should have slowed sufficiently to spot the trapped vehicle in time.

I'd agree with you in theory but experience has taught me that far too many people only hit the brakes at the end of the off ramp rather than slowing down as they exit.

Neither situation is preferable of course

dukedalton

MrFrisp wrote: »

According to local radio reports here this morning,a crash that killed an elderly man during the night/early morning was caused by him driving the wrong way on the motorway.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0524/452293-rta-cahir-tipperary/
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If this is in fact what happened...

RIP to the individual in this case, but...

Apart from the outcome he brought on himself, someone driving on the wrong side of a motorway could easily take someone else with him.

People need to realize that driving is the most dangerous thing we do. People who are incapable of operating their vehicle and abiding by the rules of the road should not be on the road.

Padraig Mor

seamus wrote: »

You know that driving against the traffic on a motorway only carries two points and an €80 fine?

It really should carry a mandatory court appearance and a year's ban. I don't understand why the legal system considers it to be such a minor offence.

It can only be explained by gross stupidity or deliberate recklessness, both of which are perfect reasons to take someone off the road.

I believe that legislation is intended to cover people reversing on the motorway - i.e. someone who misses their exit and reverses up the hard shoulder to go back to it. The case in the OP would almost certainly be classified as (highly!) dangerous driving.