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Terrible crash management on the M50

Schadenfreudia · 2015-03-04 08:42:37

Yesterday morning the M50 was in gridlock both directions due to a single fender bender southbound between the Red Cow and Ballymount. The accident was in the fast lane and the guards had closed the entire road. There were two fire brigade trucks and assorted police cars etc. In the middle of this a guard was talking to…

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#62 06-03-2015 01:40PM

Irish Steve

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The bore the incident is in has to be cleared, they're probably using the other bore for cross access to the scene, and depending on the vehicles involved, they may have to deploy specialist cutting and lifting equipment to remove the damaged vehicles.

Hopefully, the person responsible will be considered for prosecution, there's way too many people that speed or ignore the separation requirements, which are very much in place for safety, given the nature of a tunnel.

Shore, if it was easy, everybody would be doin it.😁

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#63 06-03-2015 01:59PM

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Irish Steve wrote: »

there's way too many people that speed or ignore the separation requirements, which are very much in place for safety, given the nature of a tunnel.

I've driven tunnels on the continent and the speed and (lack of) separation is frightening.

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