Accidents waiting to happen.

TallGlass

Where are the places an accident is bound to happen before something is done about it?

Here on Macken St there is a solid white line. Some traffic Northbound totally ignores this to turn left/right. They start overtaking before the Flyfit. There is on coming traffic towards them along with a blind junction, how there has not been an accident yet is beyond me at this stage.

They do rally down the wrong side of the road, over the solid white line.

More of a warning to anyone that uses the road to watch out at that junction after Flyefit and along any traffic Sound bound on Macken St.

I'm sure there are other places?

biko

It helps when you add what village or town this is.

colm_mcm

Dirty Dublin.

pippip

M50 Northbound off ramp for Firhouse -
They put in traffic lights at the top and the traffic regularly backs all the way onto the M50. With the turn and slope of the m50 at this point its extremely difficult to see the queue until the last minute. Generally its bumper to bumper anyway but sometimes its not too bad and the you regularly see some mad braking and evasive swerves.

Old Bawn / Seskin view road junction -
Both sides have filter lanes and spots where the first car sits in the junction. Sometimes the lights go red without the filter light coming on but the other direction still have green. Seen a good few collisions there in the past year which I can't help but think are directly related to this.
Same scenario on Carysfort Ave, by the Primary school. Such a dangerous sequence to have for lights.

Andrewf20

At the top of captains hill in Leixlip, take a left and head up the country road about 300m (almost behind Intel). There's a t junction on a bend. It's almost suicidal pulling out to do right turn if the bushes and hedges are growing tall.

There is a cross roads on a bend between Lucan and clonee with similar madness. Pull out and hope someone isn't coming at 80km/h.

TallGlass

biko wrote: »

It helps when you add what village or town this is.

Sorry Dublin City.

Cantona's Collars

Northbound on the N11 coming up out of Ferrycarrig just outside Wexford. An overtaking lane that suddenly turns into a ghost island with a right turn and a left turn at the other side.Cars go from 100kph + to zero.I almost witnessed a pile up there as a woman went to overtake coming into to the hatching only to be faced with the back of a vehicle turning right and a line of cars on her left.Pure luck was what saved her and others as the vehicle moved just in time.

mirrorwall14

Andrewf20 wrote: »

At the top of captains hill in Leixlip, take a left and head up the country road about 300m (almost behind Intel). There's a t junction on a bend. It's almost suicidal pulling out to do right turn if the bushes and hedges are growing tall.

There is a cross roads on a bend between Lucan and clonee with similar madness. Pull out and hope someone isn't coming at 80km/h.

Agreed on that junction, its a nightmare. And often the people coming joining the road aren't always careful. That whole section is far too narrow for the footpath too

Equally coming from Maynooth on the dunboyne road and turning onto that road behind Carton house is fairly terrifying. Even inching forward you really cannot see around the corner to the left if things are over grown to see if its safe to turn across the road to the right

barneygumble99

Phoenix park, Ashtown/Blackhorse Avenue entrance total free for all.

biko

Merlin Park exit towards Old Dublin Road, Galway.
Plenty of small collisions happens there, but so far nothing major.

ofcork

North ring road ballyvolane cork 3 sets of lights in the space of 200 metres people seem to look at the green further up and go through the red a lot of near misses including a one in a 3 series nearly t boning me.

boardsuser1

ofcork wrote: »

North ring road ballyvolane cork 3 sets of lights in the space of 200 metres people seem to look at the green further up and go through the red a lot of near misses including a one in a 3 series nearly t boning me.

The 3 sets from Dunnes to Pynes Valley? Pain in the arse alright.

Used to live in Ballyvolane.

The crossroads at Blackpool shopping centre/Mallow Road is another.

callaway92

Childers Rd. Limerick before the traffic lights.

Two lanes - Left lane you have to turn left at the lights. Right lane you have to go straight - However, if you want to go into the shopping centre you manouver into the left lane after the lights.

It's a mess. So many times I've seen cars go through the left lane to avoid the traffic in the right hand lane. So dangerous.

ThisRegard

barneygumble99 wrote: »

Phoenix park, Ashtown/Blackhorse Avenue entrance total free for all.

Only because people make it so. Biggest problem with it is people coming out of the park drive past the stop line when they can't exit the gate fully, such as when there's already a car exiting. This means cars can't get in, cars coming from Blackhorse Avenue can't get past, and you essentially have gridlock.

cml387

A notorious accident blackspot is at the Piltown turnoff from the N24 in Kilkenny.
It is on a gradual descending turn as a 2+1 road becomes 1.
A worse confluence of hazards it would be difficult to create.
Many lives have been lost on this stretch of road .

morritty

Turning right onto the Ballymun Road (northbound)
At the lights, we have two lanes, once you pass them its Left lane, Right Lane (in the middle) and lane to do a U Turn to head back towards the city.
Everyday, you have some plank in the left who decides its a fantastic idea to pull out into the middle on top of you, seriously shocked i haven't been in an accident yet.

soups05

A few in Dundalk spring to mind. Hard to describe but there is a one way street called park street, which meets a two way street coming from the opposite direction. at the point where they meet the left lane continues to become the left lane of a two way street, the right lane turns right and the opposite lane turns left so they run parallel. For years the right hand lane had a yield sign so you had to stop and wait for the other side to be clear. last year they removed the yield and repainted the road markings so its a solid white line, no crossing over. The theory is that both lanes come around the corner into their own lane then cross over further down.
Shame that very few seem to have noticed this change. The amount of times I have been beeped at or sworn at for driving around this corner in my lane while some twit from the other lane tries to drive into me is a joke. I point it out so many times but all I get is swearing and advice to learn how to drive, despite the fact that I am in the correct lane. Someone is gonna have a smash there and get a shock when they lose their compo claim lol.

Another from Dundalk is an exit from the rear of the long walk shopping center. After the barrier raises you drive forward to the stop line about a cars length away and then, well, you stop. what really happens is the barrier goes up and the car shoots forward like they are on the starting grid of a formula one race. if your on the main road you have to be very careful at this junction and again, if someone comes out and nearly hits you they scream about how your in the wrong, despite the stop sign and stop line.

Although in fairness, I should add that most drivers around here do not seem to know about those mythical rules of the road and prefer to drive with the "I'm in the right at all times" attitude :P

GavMan

pippip wrote: »

Old Bawn / Seskin view road junction -
Both sides have filter lanes and spots where the first car sits in the junction. Sometimes the lights go red without the filter light coming on but the other direction still have green. Seen a good few collisions there in the past year which I can't help but think are directly related to this.
Same scenario on Carysfort Ave, by the Primary school. Such a dangerous sequence to have for lights.

Grew up in the area and that junction has been like that for many years. I don't think any up surge in accidents there can be attributed to the junction layout. Just a bad run I think...