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Financial cost of a RTA

  • 29-06-2013 8:39pm
    #1
    dubaicentral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55 ✭✭


    Long time lurker first time poster.

    So I found myself on garda.ie and on the new drink driving limits page when i stumbled upon the fast facts section. Being related to deaths on the road I assume this is the correct forum.

    ''Every fatal road crash in Ireland costs the state €2.5 million.''

    How is this figure of 2.5 million anyway realistic. I am acutely aware of the large amount of costs involved in a fatal rta including garda, fire services, council workers, doctors, nurses, counselors, state picking up funeral expenses, solicitors, judges, court time, pathologist and the list goes on but it surely can not be 2.5 mill.

    162 people lost their lives on Irish roads in 2012, given the figure above that adds up to just over 412 million, nearly half a billion. I would have thought a couple of hundred thousand per accident at most

    Now some of these crashes had more than one fatality and they might be only counting motors and not pedestrians in that figure(road crashes) but even factoring that it is in the 100's of millions. So why is costing the state so much for fatal crashes. Poor management? paperwork? overpaid workers? etc?

    http://www.garda.ie/Controller.aspx?Page=8243

    Before anyone jumps down my throat I am not calling for cuts to services or anything like that just questioning the cost of fatal accidents.


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  • #2
    Scortho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,876 ✭✭✭Scortho


    dubaicentral wrote: »
    Long time lurker first time poster.

    So I found myself on garda.ie and on the new drink driving limits page when i stumbled upon the fast facts section. Being related to deaths on the road I assume this is the correct forum.

    ''Every fatal road crash in Ireland costs the state €2.5 million.''

    How is this figure of 2.5 million anyway realistic. I am acutely aware of the large amount of costs involved in a fatal rta including garda, fire services, council workers, doctors, nurses, counselors, state picking up funeral expenses, solicitors, judges, court time, pathologist and the list goes on but it surely can not be 2.5 mill.

    162 people lost their lives on Irish roads in 2012, given the figure above that adds up to just over 412 million, nearly half a billion. I would have thought a couple of hundred thousand per accident at most

    Now some of these crashes had more than one fatality and they might be only counting motors and not pedestrians in that figure(road crashes) but even factoring that it is in the 100's of millions. So why is costing the state so much for fatal crashes. Poor management? paperwork? overpaid workers? etc?

    http://www.garda.ie/Controller.aspx?Page=8243

    Before anyone jumps down my throat I am not calling for cuts to services or anything like that just questioning the cost of fatal accidents.

    Lost economic productivity.
    If a person earns 40,000 a year and works from age of 20 until there 65, tgats 1.6 million that would be earned in there lifetime. Something along those lines. I'm on my phone so don't have time to work out the averages etc but I'm certain it's to do with the loss in economic activity as a result of that persons death.


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