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Garda Traffic on Twitter

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  • #362
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    FrontDoor wrote: »
    Is it me or do people travel a bit slower these days?

    If they could focus on these lads a little more

    01502607.gif

    This photo was taken by an artist for her exhibition 'Rural Racetrack'. Apart from the possibility of it being set up, the tracks leading away from the donuts are photoshopped on.


  • #363
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    speed is just the easiest thing to measure.

    They have dropped the speed limit on this road from 80 to 60. I don't think there has been an accident, but I can guarantee there'll be speed vans there in the coming weeks to catch people out who've been doing 80 there for the last 7 years.

    Look out for some great tweets about this road, YOUNG MALE driver caught doing 100km/h on this 60 limit road!! on way home from CARS&COFFEE (A BOY RACER EVENT!!!!) SLOW DOWN & BSAFE


  • #364
    FrontDoor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 336 ✭✭FrontDoor


    frozenfrozen wrote: »
    speed is just the easiest thing to measure.

    They have dropped the speed limit on this road from 80 to 60. I don't think there has been an accident, but I can guarantee there'll be speed vans there in the coming weeks to catch people out who've been doing 80 there for the last 7 years.

    Look out for some great tweets about this road, YOUNG MALE driver caught doing 100km/h on this 60 limit road!! on way home from CARS&COFFEE (A BOY RACER EVENT!!!!) SLOW DOWN & BSAFE
    A brand new ring road around a town?

    Sure why not.


  • #365
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    /unfollows thread :mad:


  • #366
    millington
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭millington


    Thoie wrote: »
    You're assuming that everyone else on the motorway at 4am has working headlights...

    In that case, driving without working headlights is the more dangerous thing anyway :D


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  • #367
    millington
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭millington


    FrontDoor wrote: »
    I think it is very relevant.

    There is a subset of drivers out there who are lethal in the way they drive, the condition of themselves or their cars. Donuts are just one manifestation of it.
    That is a very stereotypical generalisation, even by boards.ie standards! :D


  • #368
    Arcade_Tryer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭Arcade_Tryer


    marno21 wrote: »

    Anyone doing hedge cutting on a national route should have appropriate advance warning signage.
    Different rules in rural areas I'm afraid. I had a car come around a corner a few weeks ago on a 100km/hr road with a lad waving his hand out the window. Next thing I knew I was confronted by a harvester taking up the entire road coming towards me. The car was no more than 50 metres ahead of it!


  • #369
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    smash wrote: »
    This photo was taken by an artist for her exhibition 'Rural Racetrack'. Apart from the possibility of it being set up, the tracks leading away from the donuts are photoshopped on.

    I've driven many rural roads and always come across scenes like that.


  • #370
    tossy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,599 ✭✭✭tossy


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    I've driven many rural roads and always come across scenes like that.

    I've seen them on motorways.


  • #371
    mrsoundie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,632 ✭✭✭mrsoundie


    They are off again

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/768354018972299264/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/768352089835704320/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw


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  • #372
    selectamatic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,196 ✭✭✭selectamatic


    The first one was as well stay going they'll get a fair long ban.
    Two points of interest: I wonder was the driver a young female since the tweet wasn't accompanied with the usual young male heading?
    Also I wonder was there no insurance on the car or are they playing the angle that there's no insurance as the driver wasn't accompanied.
    Not defending the crime or anything but those were just the two things that popped into my head when I seen it.


  • #373
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,540 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    What popped into my head was...

    What's more dangerous - 143kph in dry conditions, or stopping in the hard shoulder on a motorway for a chat?


  • #374
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,041 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    Kevin Irving wrote: »
    120kph to 150kph is 56% more kinetic energy.

    By the time you've converted that 56% into heat via the brakes and slowed to 120kph, the car that was doing doing 120kph is now closer to 30kph. (That's assuming that the braking effect is linear which I know it's not, but on the other hand it's also not taking into account reaction time, brake fade, or anything else.)

    150kph isn't crazy fast, but it's quite a bit faster than most others are doing, and is an awful lot more energy to control.

    Kinetic energy difference of 56% is obviously correct.
    But someone doing 37.5 km/h in 30km/h zone is also increasing his kinetic energy by 56%. His breaking distance is severely affected.
    But no one is going to say that person is a maniac speeder, should be prosecuted, meet with the judge in court, or even published on garda traffic tweeter for doing 37.5km/h in 30km/h zone.

    Nonsense.


  • #375
    Noveight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/768354018972299264

    An unaccompanied learner clocked at 159km/h with no tax or insurance.

    You'd think you'd be trying to keep under the radar with a completely empty windscreen?


  • #376
    shietpilot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭shietpilot


    That's just ridiculous. He/she will probably get away with a slap on the wrist too!


  • #377
    corkgsxr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,388 ✭✭✭corkgsxr


    I can't figure people with the banned for life stuff.

    Like there has to be some time to a ban. Can ya imagine some 76 year old. Still on the bus cos they had no insurance when they were 23


  • #378
    Thoie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,340 ✭✭✭Thoie


    corkgsxr wrote: »
    I can't figure people with the banned for life stuff.

    Like there has to be some time to a ban. Can ya imagine some 76 year old. Still on the bus cos they had no insurance when they were 23

    Lifetime bans aren't handed down for a first offense, or a single incidence of no insurance. If you've got a lifetime ban, it's because you've proved multiple times that you're some kind of moron who shouldn't be on the road.

    This young man, for example, by the age of 23 (so technically a max of 6 years of driving) had managed to rack up 12 dangerous driving convictions and 4 convictions for stealing cars (as well as 43 other assorted convictions). He was sentenced to jail and a lifetime ban while being charged with another 12 dangerous driving convictions. So he was caught driving dangerously on average every 3 months. If he hadn't learned his lesson after the first 12 times, there's no hope for him.


  • #379
    corkgsxr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,388 ✭✭✭corkgsxr


    Thoie wrote: »
    Lifetime bans aren't handed down for a first offense, or a single incidence of no insurance. If you've got a lifetime ban, it's because you've proved multiple times that you're some kind of moron who shouldn't be on the road.

    This young man, for example, by the age of 23 (so technically a max of 6 years of driving) had managed to rack up 12 dangerous driving convictions and 4 convictions for stealing cars (as well as 43 other assorted convictions). He was sentenced to jail and a lifetime ban while being charged with another 12 dangerous driving convictions. So he was caught driving dangerously on average every 3 months. If he hadn't learned his lesson after the first 12 times, there's no hope for him.

    That's grand but the people saying lifetime ban in the twitter feed don't know that


  • #380
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,124 ✭✭✭✭neris


    corkgsxr wrote: »
    I can't figure people with the banned for life stuff.

    Like there has to be some time to a ban. Can ya imagine some 76 year old. Still on the bus cos they had no insurance when they were 23

    No life should mean life, if you have to get the bus for 60 or 70 years tough.


  • #381
    Blut2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,467 ✭✭✭Blut2


    In that situation couldn't someone just emigrate to the UK (or any other EU country) and do the test etc to get a license over there? Wouldn't be that hard to do if they really wanted to drive.


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  • #382
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #383
    ironclaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,994 ✭✭✭ironclaw


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    Would technically be void in the country you got it in as its as clear as day on the application form 'Do you have previous convictions, bans etc' You may still get it, depending on the country, but no insurer will touch you regardless of where you racked up the convictions.

    We're too lenient as a country.


  • #384
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,539 ✭✭✭jca


    ironclaw wrote: »
    Would technically be void in the country you got it in as its as clear as day on the application form 'Do you have previous convictions, bans etc' You may still get it, depending on the country, but no insurer will touch you regardless of where you racked up the convictions.

    We're too lenient as a country.

    Sure guys like him never rang an insurance company in their lives, he couldn't give a rats ass. As soon as he's out of jail he'll be zipping around the roads of Donegal again, leniency doesn't come into it.


  • #385
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,967 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/770190456034562049

    Video call, that takes some level of stupidity!


  • #386
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,596 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    158kph in a 1 litre Yaris and on L Plates, must be some kind of record...

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/770716365682532353


  • #387
    Arcade_Tryer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭Arcade_Tryer


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    158kph in a 1 litre Yaris and on L Plates, must be some kind of record...

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/770716365682532353
    Harsh.


  • #388
    blackwhite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,870 ✭✭✭blackwhite


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    158kph in a 1 litre Yaris and on L Plates, must be some kind of record...

    https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/770716365682532353

    Can't imagine the Yaris handling particularly well at that speed


  • #389
    ironclaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,994 ✭✭✭ironclaw


    blackwhite wrote: »
    Can't imagine the Yaris handling particularly well at that speed

    Yaris certainly won't handle well if you need to stop suddenly from that speed. A 1L won't do 160km/h though, I can say that from youthful, stupid experience. :o


  • #390
    flazio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,884 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    ironclaw wrote: »
    Yaris certainly won't handle well if you need to stop suddenly from that speed. A 1L won't do 160km/h though, I can say that from youthful, stupid experience. :o
    N/A perhaps but I hear some mid size cars now come with 1 litre turbos.

    This too shall pass.



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  • #391
    shietpilot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭shietpilot


    ironclaw wrote: »
    Yaris certainly won't handle well if you need to stop suddenly from that speed. A 1L won't do 160km/h though, I can say that from youthful, stupid experience. :o

    A 1.0 Yaris will do more than 160 km/h without a bother ;)


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