How to report danger driver

Green Finers

I was join M1 to northway at Santry. This piece is 80 km/h. As I join I check careful my mirror. Lurry was at approx 75 kph behind and I was 80.

On the moment I start to indicate to cross the broked white line truck speed up and flash aggressively.

He speed up and slow at same as me to prevent me join. Soon as I join on front he go mad.

Beep, flash and follow close to my behind. Then he blast loud horn and overtaking left on hard shoulders and speed away onto m50.

How do report this maniac to Gardas? He might have camera and I didn’t and he try to lie to Garda and blame me.

Green Finers

I didn’t want to brake the limit 80 to speed up when join. Dangerous to do and not allowed. I apply for citizenship soon and don’t want to be criminal convict with penalty points.

colm_mcm

You can call Traffic Watch on 0818 205 805

Nobodys gonna go near the Gardai though.

SCOOP 64

Don't worry, forget about it you will hear nothing if it.

goldenmick

One problem at a time.

Did you sort that cat out yet?

Green Finers

Thank you all. The bully driver needs to be sort out. Not good for profession driver to be like that.

Green Finers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551164#Comment_118551164

Nothing in the moment. I don’t want to get into bad relationships with neighbours so I keep quiet. Best thing and all are happy.

NickNickleby

I use that on-ramp frequently and because its very long, there's usually plenty of time to either get ahead of slower traffic or slow down and pull in behind faster traffic. Occasionally I encounter drivers like your lorry driver. Can't understand what they're gaining apart from causing difficulty. there's nothing to be done at the time, just stay calm and be the better person. But you were unlucky, about 90% of the time, someone will flash you to let you in.

Probably nothing to be gained by reporting it. As you say, you've no camera so no real evidence. But, recently I've spotted the speed van on that stretch a few times, so just as well you didn't try to race him. But remember the rule is when joining the motorway , YOU must give way to traffic already on the motorway. The important reason that I say this is : if something had gone wrong, you would most likely have been deemed to be in the wrong.

Del2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058230406/how-to-report-danger-driver

You have to give way to traffic on the main road and his speed on the main road is what you need to exceed or go slower, if he speeds up or slows down you need to adjust your speed to that. Sticking your indicator on means nothing. You seem to have pulled out in front of a HGV going slower than it or matching it's speed and are blaming the driver for being aggressive, your lucky all you got was lights and the horn you could have been under the truck.

goldenmick

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551400#Comment_118551400

Hear, hear.

If I were you, OP, I'd forget about all this... and get back to your moggy problem.

CianRyan

1. He had right of way.

2. It is your responsibility to match the speed of the traffic on the main road and Join when is safe.

3. Cutting off a truck is never safe.

Honestly, it sounds like your caused a dangerous situation by not giving way to the road of greater importance and by pulling out infront of a faster moving HGV, a vehicle which can not slow down or maneuver as easily as you could.

Green Finers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551467#Comment_118551467

I was yielding. Can you read my top message post?

I said I slowed back down when he speeding up then he slowing back down again when I was slowing … deliberately a temp to block me. Most hgv are danger drivers.

I have drive A, B and BE and D. Always hgv drivers have chips on their shoulders.

Still stihl waters 3

Trucks go 90 on roads like like this, speed limit at 80 or not they ride the limiter at 90 because of numerous things, you needed to be at 95 or more to join in front of an oncoming truck or slow down and let them pass, I think you went to pull out and got caught thinking as most do that trucks don't really go that fast but they do, next time be at 95 and you'll cruise past 99 percent of trucks

Green Finers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551583#Comment_118551583

That’s over the speed limit.

If I report lorry for speed I hope they lose job. Good punishment.

Green Finers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551583#Comment_118551583

If trucks go 90 then why?

its over the limits.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058230406/how-to-report-danger-driver

You pulled into his lane in front of him and he had to pull into the hard shoulder to let you in? Is that what happened?

Green Finers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551627#Comment_118551627

No and you know it .

he was behind me for 5 seconds beeping and flashing then jump to the hard shoulders for dangerous left overtakes

Green Finers

Hope he get caught speeding eventually and lose. I will laugh hard.

I earn my A BE D and respect all rules. Soon to do C just for crack. I make good money. Document translation Bulgarian to Romanian and vice Verse.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551648#Comment_118551648

How would I know it! I'm going by your OP.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551661#Comment_118551661

Well let's hope if you get your heavy vehicle licence that you are such a brilliant driver that you never need to slow down or speed up because other drivers.can't drive correctly🙄

Green Finers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551671#Comment_118551671

Jequ0n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551598#Comment_118551598

You must be a lot of fun at parties

goldenmick

Cat shite problems, suicidal encounters with trucks... you do know these sort of things have a habit of running in threes? Don't you?

I should make a nice mug of cocoa and bugger off to bed, before the next calamity.

Check under your bed first for poisonous spiders. 🕷️

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551690#Comment_118551690

Well firstly, you don't know what speed that driver was going before you joined the m50. And secondly, you don't know what speed he.was doing when you joined.

Its up to you as a merging driver to drive in a way that is appropriate, whoever is on the motorway before you has the right of way.

CianRyan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551661#Comment_118551661

Ooof, mad flex!

Maybe you should translate yourself out of a theory test and into the real world.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

F*ck him OP, karma will get him eventually. Don’t bother reporting him, waste of time.

I met one like him before. Almost empty M1 at 3am. I was doing 120 in the outside lane. Lorry driver waited until I was almost on his back bumper to pull out to overtake a car in front of him. I had to stand on the brakes. He had the audacity to give me the w*nker gesture out his window as I passed. So seeing as I wasn’t in a hurry I decided I’d prefer to do 75km when I was in front of him. He moved to the outside lane, I went up to 90km. He got back in behind me, we went back to 75km. In the meantime, the car he’d originally overtook toddles off into the distance. Kept him there for a few exits. He had his full beams on and all, my cabin was glowing like an apparition. Shaking his fist, blowing the horn. Great craic.

Green Finers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551700#Comment_118551700

Classic Abuse response when proved person wrong. Did you have foetal alcohol syndrome?

whomitconcerns

This is a wind up, no?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551753#Comment_118551753

I was doing 120 in the outside lane

So, how did anyone overtake you then?

eggy81

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551598#Comment_118551598

No chance. Just learn to drive properly

WishUWereHere

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551648#Comment_118551648

I think zYou are a wind up. When You pull onto the M50 at Santry, you are already on the inside lane, so how can he/she possibly undercut you?

also that stretch of road is an incline the driver was in all probability trying to maintain the speed for the (gradual ) hill.

Green Finers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551753#Comment_118551753

Next times hit left foot break.

Lesson learned.

WishUWereHere

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551151#Comment_118551151

What are You talking about? You do not get a criminal record for a speeding offence. Okay if You're driving excessively I’m not sure but just being over the limit, €80 & 3 points.

Green Finers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551837#Comment_118551837

I don’t want points because Some ape is danger driver

Green Finers

Speeding should be jail and forever banned

eggy81

They should hang them and be done with it

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551854#Comment_118551854

And deportation?

WishUWereHere

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551535#Comment_118551535

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551602#Comment_118551602

Now I know You have a chip on your shoulder.

speaking as an ex HGV driver who drove all over Europe, most HHV drivers do NOT have chips on their shoulders. In the main, they are professional drivers who practise courtesy on the roads.

Green Finers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551811#Comment_118551811

They use hard shoulders. Please read 🤡

CianRyan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551854#Comment_118551854

So if your partner or child was bleeding out on your backseat and the only way to save them was to drive 85 in an 80, you're letting them die?

That's a the vibe I'm getting here, extremely tall quatroped.

eggy81

I think I’d need to see his dash cam to see what you did wrong op

WishUWereHere

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551854#Comment_118551854

With an attitude like you display with this comment, it’s YOU who must take driving lessons.

You are the danger on the road more so than the HGV driver.

WishUWereHere

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551878#Comment_118551878

I am on that stretch often and have NEVER seen any vehicle use the hard shoulder to undertake.

WishUWereHere

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551852#Comment_118551852

You ain’t going to gain much sympathy calling people names.

Still stihl waters 3

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551602#Comment_118551602

Time, fuel consumption, deadlines, you do what you can in the time given, 90 on the M1 is childsplay, you should have been able to handle it, if you can't merge at 95 you should stick to regional roads and leave the motorways to the professionals

WishUWereHere

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551164#Comment_118551164

Hey OP, what’s with a cat problem?

bazz26

OP has had a very eventful day for someone only just signed up to boards.

Did you try introducing the cat to the danger driver? Might solve both problems for you.

Green Finers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551928#Comment_118551928

It’s still break the limit.

Law is law must obey.

if driver late then driver is fault.

Jequ0n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551756#Comment_118551756

Yes that must be it. Thankfully it doesn’t use my from using articles.

Dempo1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551535#Comment_118551535

There's a lot of A B BE and D's going on here but I'm intrigued, what is a Lurry and Gardas as mentioned in OP, asking for a friend 🤔

Widdensushi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118551756#Comment_118551756

Honestly how bored must you be to start these threads while pretending not to have good English