New static speed camera in Carlow N80

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I wounder can catch truck 🚚? As there limit is 80km even on 100km road

Five fatalities in two crashes at the same bad bends.

The new static speed camera isn't at those bends, and is instead on a wide and straight stretch of road some 500m away.

"Proper" measures to address the issue would appear to be to introduce a lower limit for those bends, and install the camera there to police it.

Instead, the camera goes up in what will most likely be a "fish in a barrel" place, especially when the limit there drops to 80km/h because the road has a number higher than 50 in its name. Anybody driving at what's currently a perfectly reasonable and legal 90km/h will be hit with a fine and penalty points.

It's unfortunately one of those times that makes you wonder what the real priority is.

Perhaps you're not familiar with the area. This is the approach to the bends in question:

My suggestion would be to put a lower speed limit at an appropriate distance back from the bends (say 60km/h), and put a camera just at the point of the bend (marked X), to monitor that distance. People would soon learn to slow down as they approach the bends.

By putting the camera 500 metres back, you could even be increasing the chances of people speeding into the bends themselves. Human nature being what it is, a driver could think "chances of there being another speed check within 500 metres of a static camera are negligible, I've already gone past that camera at the proper speed, so now there's no danger of being caught if I speed up a bit….."

The more speed control they have out there now in my opinion the better, I know that stretch of the N80 well, it's no worse than most other N roads in Ireland. People are dumb, off their heads on drugs, playing with their phones or the car Infotainment on the big screen, it's just mad. They've allowed so much distraction in cars.

The bends are well sign posted, no excuses. Anyone in control of their car simply can not crash at those bends. They are not clued in and spaced out/distracted.

If they'd only put fixed speed traps either side of the schools and Creches now it would make a difference and some towns and villages have still 50 Km/h limit which is nuts considering how narrow some streets are and we have so many massive heavy cars on the road today getting heavier and heavier.

My local roads are now down to 60 but cars still drive 80 or more, it's ridiculous.

Cars have got so insanely powerful now too and are far too powerful for the average driver on Irish roads. Where as once a car had to be worked to move now a slight blip of the throttle and you've gained a lot of speed.

There needs to be much more serious penalties for speeding around schools and in the 50/60 Zones and we need much more detection. Increase points from 3 to 6 for exceeding 50 and 60 limits.

I'm far from anti-motors, but the amount of people speeding all over the country without regard for others and least of all pedestrians on back roads is a disgrace.

Why would you need that? Surely it's only of interest if you're actually driving the road and anyway there are speed limit signs for that.

An auld angle grinder at 3am will have that gone in no time.

French style. 😎