Meanwhile on the Roads...

Paddigol

Meanwhile…

Kyle Hayes handed two-year driving ban after failing to overturn dangerous driving conviction

I think we can all recognise the behaviour of an Audi driver in this report.

Reddit has a whole subreddit dedicated to crap driving, and the great thing about it is that all of the footage and commentary is from other drivers, which kills the whole cyclists -v- motorists manufactured culture war nonsense. You don't get any of the sewer-dwelling comments you find under cycling related articles online. The more people calling out shocking driving the better. There was one clip yesterday showing a car in Portlaoise flipping as it was driven slowly enough into a parked car on a main street. I'll run down Grafton Street naked at 1pm if that doesn't turn out to be a driver looking at their phone.

statto25

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123260324#Comment_123260324

How the hell do you flip a car at low speed while parking? SUV involved?

Seth Brundle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123260646#Comment_123260646

It is easy enough if a wheel is forced to drive up onto something e.g.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljlZqd5qot4

Paddigol

Yep, SUV… from the clip it looked as though the car's front left wheel drove up the front left wheel of a contra-flow parked car, effectively driving up the wheel. Crazy stuff… all the hallmarks of someone staring at their phone

Large bottle small glass

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123260324#Comment_123260324

More the action of a cnut from a family of ****.

At least if he gets jail now his two brothers who kicked the sh1te out of their lifelong friend can keep him company.

"Driving wasn't dangerous, he just ran out of road"

Proof if you ever need it that a Defendants case normally goes south once they actually have to open their mouth.

Interesting to see what happens when he is back before criminal court in relation to suspended sentence. After his two fingers at every turn to the system he Indeed might be "out of road".

magicbastarder

Not 'pedestrian killed in letterkenny' but 'parade cancelled because pedestrian killed'

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/03/17/letterkenny-st-patricks-day-parade-cancelled-after-pedestrian-fatally-struck-by-car-in-early-hours-of-morning/

CramCycle

Well after driving home later this evening, if anyone dares try and give me the "cyclists don't have lights" BS, I will drag them to the nearest national road after sun down and make them count the number of cars without lights, do out the stats, talk about the risks and mortality risks in a crash.

cletus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123272623#Comment_123272623

Someone must've pointed it out, they've changed the headline

cletus

I thought this was more appropriate here than in the near misses thread, as it was just blatantly stupid driving.

On the way home on my spin this morning, about a mile from the front door.

The road continues to the right, the road to the left where the white van is driving is an entrance to an agri supply place.

Fella in a huge tractor and a trailer big enough to tow a JCB was exiting. He got to the junction at about the time I was where the camera is in this shot.

He had a quick look left and right (I could see him), and just kept trundling out. The trailer was long enough that he had to swing across both lanes. I ended up having to stop, go around the back of him, and overtake.

elchupanebrey

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123275617#Comment_123275617

You see this at nearly every junction and roundabout now. Driver will have a quick glance and pull out regardless of what is coming or how close they are. Doesn't matter if its a bike or car approaching it's the same refusal to wait until it's safe to go

magicbastarder

i had something similar on the old belfast road years ago. a lad, about 16, driving a huge tractor pulling a flatbed trailer loaded up with hay bales, pulled up to the junction from the side road (quickpenny lane), looked straight at me, and pulled out. a real 'you've no choice but to stop for me' dick move.

it was not my finest moment, but i got a minor fit of the red mist and put on as big a burst of speed as i could muster and slammed on just shy of him. he also had to slam on, and ended up driving alongside me soon after, hurling abuse at me.

magicbastarder

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2025/03/19/woman-who-live-streamed-high-speed-m50-chase-and-almost-struck-garda-jailed-for-two-years/

Judge Nolan said he was being as lenient as possible, but a prison sentence had to be imposed

Uh... Why?

She deliberately drove at a Garda on foot, she was chased for an hour and he's being 'as lenient as possible'? Oh, and she got a four year driving ban. But hey, it's Nolan.

Mefistofelino

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123279257#Comment_123279257

She made the rookie error of seriously discommoding other drivers and not killing a non- motorist. If she'd simply ploughed through a playground he'd have probably given her a medal rather than a jail sentence.

Dr_Colossus

More commuting and transport relevant but this piece of nostalgia shows nothing has changed in 45 years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXCJTKZ0eUE

cletus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123285987#Comment_123285987

Fella on the bike using more road space than he needs, and being put in place by the car driver 🤔🤔🤔

hesker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123285987#Comment_123285987

And speed limits were an “artificial constraint” back then too

magicbastarder

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/birmingham-driver-who-flipped-car-31242853

this farcical attitude seems fairly universal.

Thelonious Monk

bus felt like it passed me by a few centimeters yesterday on the howth road near harry byrnes, the wind it created nearly blew me over. anyone else have this problem on that road? always get close passed by buses. i caught up with him and told him to be careful that he was inches from me and to be careful and he just kept saying he was between his lines, i was between me lines! those aren't the rules though, dopey.

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123290165#Comment_123290165

You can get the CCTV recordings from their on board cameras if you want to make a formal complaint.

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123290540#Comment_123290540

i can't be bothered i mean there was no malice in it, he genuinely believed as long as he wasn't over the cycle lane line everything is ok - it happens all the time with buses.

magicbastarder

i live on a busy road with a bus lane passing the house. yesterday, for i think the fourth time since we moved here, a dublin bus driver deliberately prevented me from reversing into my driveway in my car.

just bad timing with a combination of traffic lights and other traffic, as i was coming up to my house, in the bus lane, a bus was behind me. i was indicating in plenty of time, tapped the brakes a couple of times as a warning and he deliberately drove up behind me - about half a car length worth, and stopped behind me as i stopped just past my driveway. i had to get out of the car and pointedly ask how i was supposed to reverse into my driveway with him deliberately driving up my arse.

it's rare it happens - once every three years at the current rate - but really aggravating. and surely these lads are used to having to deal with this very scenario?

JMcL

More commuting and transport relevant but this piece of nostalgia shows nothing has changed in 45 years:

I suppose the only positive is you're less likely to die from lead poisoning today……

Paddigol

No mention of driving without a licence or insurance, so you have to assume everything was above board there…

Football star repeatedly drove off without paying for petrol | Irish Independent

But how can someone like that - who in his own defence highlights a number of issues that would make you want to be as far away as possible from him on the roads - be allowed to hold a driving licence/ behind the wheel of a car?

Unreasonable angle to take? Reasonableness is never considered a factor when asking of pedestrians "were they wearing hi viz?" or of cyclists "were they wearing a helmet?".

I'd love to be more charitable, but its another example of how what should be seen as a privilege which will be taken away from people unfit to exercise it, is actually viewed by society as a unquestionable right.

zell12

Is this a thing?

The tragedy involved a head-on collision between two vehicles as roads were busy with people out for Sunday drives to mark Mother's Day. https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/two-dead-and-others-injured-in-cork-car-crash/a1763214183.html

Wildly Boaring

I assume Sunday drive to a destination?

ie To visit my mother earlier

CramCycle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123311841#Comment_123311841

This is what I think they meant but there are also a lot of people who would hop in the car for something to do for an hour or two. I don't get it myself but it is a thing.

standardg60

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123311768#Comment_123311768

Two young children being injured and losing their mother is tragic enough any day, but losing your mother on mother's day is especially bad, every single year from now on.

8 and 10, God my heart is with them.

zell12

I looked it up - sunday drive is a thing - but is it a thing to celebrate Mother's Day with a car drive as the Indo proclaimed?

A Sunday drive is an automobile trip, typically taken for pleasure or leisure on a Sunday afternoon, there is typically no destination and no rush. It began in the 1920s ie Henry Ford promoted the weekend for activity rather than rest because it led to the sale of automobiles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_drive

cletus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123312924#Comment_123312924

I think you're reading too much into this. I'd imagine it's more along the lines of "Happy Mother's Day. It's a lovely day, will we go for a spin? We can stop somewhere for a coffee and a 99."

zell12

driver standards are at an “all-time low”..  Hauliers are in a unique position with their “birds eye view” perspective of the road.. “The road is our workplace. Road safety is everybody’s responsibility.”

https://www.thejournal.ie/hauliers-warn-witness-epidemic-of-mobile-phone-use-while-driving-6664718-Apr2025/