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RustyNut

Here's the numbers. Not what you would expect, especially the time that collisions are happening.

The Backwards Man

Patww79 wrote: »

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Yep, two women lost their lives.

Hilarious stuff indeed.

OldMrBrennan83

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punisher5112

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Yep, two women lost their lives.

Hilarious stuff indeed.

Don't turn it around they were in no way aiming fun at deaths.

Don't ruin a great thread.

Hopefully some more cars are taken.

The Backwards Man

punisher5112 wrote: »

Don't turn it around they were in no way aiming fun at deaths.

Don't ruin a great thread.

Hopefully some more cars are taken.

Thread is about the traffic corps, not taking the piss out of fatalities.

OldMrBrennan83

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Amanda.ie

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Thread is about the traffic corps, not taking the piss out of fatalities.

He didn't do that in all honesty. He was just stating what people up there say.

The Backwards Man

Amanda.ie wrote: »

He didn't do that in all honesty. He was just stating what people up there say.

Pat knew what he was saying, never have any fear of that.

OldMrBrennan83

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punisher5112

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Thread is about the traffic corps, not taking the piss out of fatalities.

Get a grip.

Nobody came on here to make a mockery.

fullstop

aphex™ wrote: »

Donegal has to raise its snout on European Day without Road Deaths. They really need to exclude Donegal from that to give it some chance of succeeding.

:rolleyes:

RustyNut wrote: »

Here's the numbers. Not what you would expect, especially the time that collisions are happening.

Don't be coming in here with facts showing there are worse counties in terms of outright fatalities and fatalities by head of population.

Special Circumstances

fullstop wrote: »

:rolleyes:



Don't be coming in here with facts showing there are worse counties in terms of outright fatalities and fatalities by head of population.

Those numbers are quite obviously not per 1000 or 100,000 inhabitants.
If anyone can give a link with actual "per capita" figures it would be interesting though.

A quick back of the envelope on figures from 2001 to 2012 puts Donegal in a league of its own compared to Dublin or Cork per 1000 inhabitants.

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Special Circumstances wrote: »

Those numbers are quite obviously not per 1000 or 100,000 inhabitants.
If anyone can give a link with actual "per capita" figures it would be interesting though.

A quick back of the envelope on figures from 2001 to 2012 puts Donegal in a league of its own compared to Dublin or Cork per 1000 inhabitants.

So if you know the population of each county you don't need a link? Mayo has a smaller population than Donegal and more road deaths over the past two years, as does Kerry. Tipperary has 2,000 more people and the same number of fatalities. Westmeath has more fatalities per head of population, as does Monaghan, as does Laois. But yeah, league of its own.

Special Circumstances

Sad that you felt you had to change the meaning of my last comment, but thanks for the otherwise constructive input :pac:

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Special Circumstances wrote: »

Sad that you felt you had to change the meaning of my last comment, but thanks for the otherwise constructive input :pac:

Why is your last comment even relevant? Dublin and Cork are massively urbanised with motorways outside the urban areas so it stands to reason there would be less fatalities than rural counties, no? Oh... :pac:

D Trent

fullstop wrote: »

Why is your last comment even relevant? Dublin and Cork are massively urbanised with motorways outside the urban areas so it stands to reason there would be less fatalities than rural counties, no? Oh... :pac:

Sorry but you do know Cork is the largest county in Ireland, which in turn means it has the most roads, be it National, Regional or minor roads?

savagethegoat

D Trent wrote: »

Sorry but you do know Cork is the largest county in Ireland, which in turn means it has the most roads, be it National, Regional or minor roads?

more to the point it has a great number of non-urbanised roads.

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D Trent wrote: »

Sorry but you do know Cork is the largest county in Ireland, which in turn means it has the most roads, be it National, Regional or minor roads?

I do, but over 1/5 of the population of the county live in the city. It is also served by a lot better roads than nearly all the other counties in the west of the country.

jimgoose

fullstop wrote: »

Why is your last comment even relevant? Dublin and Cork are massively urbanised with motorways outside the urban areas so it stands to reason there would be less fatalities than rural counties, no? Oh... :pac:

Cork City is urbanised - I wouldn't use the word "massively". 95% of it is rural. That's a lot of ground. Do you know you can drive from Goleen to Dublin and be nearly half-way there before you leave Co. Cork?

jimgoose

fullstop wrote: »

I do, but over 1/5 of the population of the county live in the city.

Indeed. But that means that ~420,000 people don't.

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jimgoose wrote: »

Indeed. But that means that ~420,000 people don't.

Yep, fair point. But i still stand by mine!

smelly sock

We're not really serious about cutting back on road fatalities in this country. We can have all the campaigns etc we want and put as many guards on the road as we want but until we start encouraging driver upskilling and re-training we are at nothing.

It frightens the life out of me that someone can have gotten a driving license in the 60/70/80's and there good for life. Surely a test once every 8 years or so is a good idea.

mrsoundie

smelly sock wrote: »

We're not really serious about cutting back on road fatalities in this country. We can have all the campaigns etc we want and put as many guards on the road as we want but until we start encouraging driver upskilling and re-training we are at nothing.

It frightens the life out of me that someone can have gotten a driving license in the 60/70/80's and there good for life. Surely a test once every 8 years or so is a good idea.

Re-tests are a great idea, unfortunately some people fear that. I for one would not and if it cleared up all the poor driving we see, it can only be a good thing.

Falcon L

smelly sock wrote: »

We're not really serious about cutting back on road fatalities in this country. We can have all the campaigns etc we want and put as many guards on the road as we want but until we start encouraging driver upskilling and re-training we are at nothing.

It frightens the life out of me that someone can have gotten a driving license in the 60/70/80's and there good for life. Surely a test once every 8 years or so is a good idea.

Not this ballixology again!
Look at the number of cars with N plates driving like complete asshats. These are people just out of training and testing. IMO the only thing that will make your average driver drive properly is enforcement of the current laws. Most of the bad drivers know what way they should drive, they choose to drive however the hell they want, and no-one shows the will to stop them.

Jesus.

coolbeans wrote: »

Cos jesus is a staunch advocate for those who can't be bothered with NCT, insurance etc.

Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth

Do you know its also easier for a Camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven?

punisher5112

Jesus not again.

In no way modding here but please can we get back to what this thread is for.

Every time it comes up I'm all excited to see another car lifted but I keep been disappointed.

smelly sock

Falcon L wrote: »

Not this ballixology again!
Look at the number of cars with N plates driving like complete asshats. These are people just out of training and testing. IMO the only thing that will make your average driver drive properly is enforcement of the current laws. Most of the bad drivers know what way they should drive, they choose to drive however the hell they want, and no-one shows the will to stop them.

I'd have agree about enforcing the rules I suppose. But if people knew that they had to sit a test on a regular basis it might stop bad habits developing in the first place?

selectamatic

smelly sock wrote: »

I'd have agree about enforcing the rules I suppose. But if people knew that they had to sit a test on a regular basis it might stop bad habits developing in the first place?

The problem there is shuffling a steering wheel is a bad habit.
Along with a lot of other needlessly picky sh1te the test focus' on.

marno21

fullstop wrote: »

Why is your last comment even relevant? Dublin and Cork are massively urbanised with motorways outside the urban areas so it stands to reason there would be less fatalities than rural counties, no? Oh... :pac:

This is wrong.

Dublin has motorways approaching the city on the M1, M2, M3, M4, M7 and M11 corridors. The only national route approaching the city that is not motorway is the N81.

Cork has the M8 approaching the city and about 10km of N25 dual carriageway, much of which is very low standard with median crossings, bumps on the road, houses fronting onto the road etc.

The other busy approaches to Cork (N20, N22, N27, N28 and N71) are poor and unfit for purpose.

From next year there will be 3 times as many motorways entering Galway than there will be Waterford.

savagethegoat

the N25 east of cork is of very high quality as far as Midleton almost, evidenced by it's 120km/h speed limit.

The N22 Macroom road is very high quality (and partly 120km/h limited) bypassing Ballincollig to the Ballincollig roundabout where it's joins what used to be the N22 through Balincollig and links to the N40 South Ring .

The N20 approach is high quality from North of Blarney

The N27 is not too bad from Halfway into it's junction with the N40

All in all, I don't really know what you are talking about.