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Kerry car accident

  • 25-08-2010 04:47PM
    #1
    easyeason3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,102 ✭✭✭easyeason3


    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/four-teenagers-killed-in-co-kerry-road-accident-2310856.html

    Very sad news. Families & friends lives will be torn apart yet again over this tragic accident.

    My deepest sympathies go to the families & friends of these kids.


    So in your opinion, what do you think should be done to prevent accidents like this happening?
    Should there be compulsory classes in school to educate kids about driving & it's hazards or is there anything worthwhile that can be done?

    I know this is AH but try to keep it respectful, family members or friends could be reading.


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  • #2
    Biggins
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    As a parent of four children, I can't begin to imagine the happening of that unfortunate event.
    My heart goes out to the family involved.
    My sympathies to them.


  • #3
    damoz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭damoz


    Increase the minimum driving age to 21.


  • #4
    starlit
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    My deepest sympathies to all those who have been affected. My heart goes out to them.

    Introduce compulsory driving education in secondary schools and maybe include an exam with a special certificate.


  • #5
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    damoz wrote: »
    Increase the minimum driving age to 21.

    there are a lot of crapperer drivers over 21


  • #6
    The Agogo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭The Agogo


    damoz wrote: »
    Increase the minimum driving age to 21.

    Not a bad idea (except maybe 17+ yr/olds who need a car to work)....just don't discern between genders.

    Sympathies to the families. Alot of factors need to be considered (terrible road systems, poor driving education/information, discipline, among other things)


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  • #7
    damoz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭damoz


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    there are a lot of crapperer drivers over 21

    the statistics would beg to differ.


  • #8
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    damoz wrote: »
    the statistics would beg to differ.

    common sense should be put in place of age.


  • #9
    damoz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭damoz


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    common sense should be put in place of age.

    In general (yes that word) - they are correlated.


  • #10
    Sykk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    Awful news..

    No increasing the age is ridiculous.. How about a driving test instead of sending the bloody license out in the post...


  • #11
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,925 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    damoz wrote: »
    the statistics would beg to differ.

    Actual stats, or the RSA generated crap?

    I drove past 2 crash scenes yesterday, one involving 2 cars, the other was a 3 car crash. In either case, none of the drivers were young.


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  • #12
    Tomebagel
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    damoz wrote: »
    Increase the minimum driving age to 21.
    damoz wrote: »
    the statistics would beg to differ.

    And another rant about how all young male drivers are dangerous begins:rolleyes:

    My thoughts are with the families and friends


  • #13
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    damoz wrote: »
    In general (yes that word) - they are correlated.

    i beg to differ strongly.


    but moving on,sympathies R.I.P


  • #14
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    damoz wrote: »
    Increase the minimum driving age to 21.

    I know an 18yr old who's a far better driver than some people i know that are over 30.


  • #15
    VERYinterested
    Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭VERYinterested


    easyeason3 wrote: »
    So in your opinion, what do you think should be done to prevent accidents like this happening?

    Set up more speed traps on safe, revenue generating and statistic distorting suburban roads!

    Seriously though, I don't know what can be done, apart from getting kids to do a proper course when on Transition Year in school that might actually be of some use to them.


  • #16
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,504 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    A lot of common sense comes with age..........sometimes you make a mistake at a young age and are lucky enough to be able to walk away having learnt a lot from it, sometimes you dont get that second chance.
    Tough to know how to reduce these kind of accidents. Better driver education, perhaps a graduated driver education system, only allow certain hours where people of a certain age and drive in, but policing all this is the issue.


    RIP to all, my thoughts are with the families.


  • #17
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    why do people feel the need to start these threads?

    as much as it is a sad to hear

    why start one and get a load of people who don't know the people to say sorry for some one they didnt know?


  • #18
    efb
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    Prevent young people carrying more than one passenger, with the exception of children of the driver.


  • #19
    myflipflops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭myflipflops


    We need to properly implement the rules we have concerning drivers on provisional licences and change others.

    You are supposed to have a fully licensed driver with you at all times when you are on a provisional licence but this is not policed at all.

    We have it backwards in Ireland. In most places, you learn to drive and then you get a car. Here, you get a car and then learn to drive. It leaves us with way too many poorly trained, inexperienced drivers on the road.


  • #20
    Biggins
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    Snow-Monkey wrote: »
    ...why start one and get a load of people who don't know the people to say sorry for some one they didnt know?
    1. Because some care and wish to express regret at such things happening.

    2. As a reminder that accidents occur and to be careful out there.

    3. Because they in the accident have now passed away, their deaths will not be just not thought of with the same value as yesterdays chip wrapping paper. Lives have meaning, well at least to some.

    Sorry if you don't get that.


  • #21
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    really tragic news, RIP to those killed and my thoughts to those involved.


    You can only legislate so far, maybe a few TDs should STFU about drink driving for a start, maybe driving tests should be tougher and a lot of the more dangerous roads improved.

    Making the NCT test annual and actually making it ensure that a car is safe,rather than just a paper exercise to keep Brussels happy would also help.

    At the end of the day though, accidents do happen and you can only legislate so far.


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  • #22
    Dravokivich
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    easyeason3 wrote: »
    Should there be compulsory classes in school to educate kids about driving & it's hazards or is there anything worthwhile that can be done?

    Just because someone is thaught in school, doesn't mean they are going to come out better more aware drivers. It's all based on the individual who is driving and from my experience in school... not alot of them were set on learning / studying... It was all acting the maggot and taking shortcuts to get work done... Can you imagine that in a situation when someone is trying to instruct a kid how to drive?


  • #23
    r3nu4l
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,392 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    Snow-Monkey wrote: »
    why do people feel the need to start these threads?

    as much as it is a sad to hear

    why start one and get a load of people who don't know the people to say sorry for some one they didnt know?

    Well anyone with any empathy can relate these stories to people they know!

    As a father myself I know that the thoughts of anything bad happening to my daughter makes me shiver so the thoughts that some parents out there are now faced with burying their children is heartbreaking!

    Snow-monkey, maybe you should read this to get a sense of what I'm talking about.


  • #24
    00112984
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    Lower the ridiculously high insurance policies for young drivers.

    I'm from Kerry and grew up in an area where you have two types of young male driver-

    1) The types from wealthy families who drive around in souped-up, Modified Subarus and Audis and wore the fact that they could pay the insurance on such a car as a badge of honour. It went to their heads so we always had a lot of young guys racing eachother through towns just to draw attention to the fact that they could drive such cars.

    2) The types from not so wealthy families who drove around in souped-up, modified Micras and Puntos and tried to keep up with the Subarus. Often, they've spent so much on mod kits and insurance that the car is a status-symbol among their peers.

    Removing the high insurance costs would open the market to more young drivers and reduce the novelty, show-off factor that leads to speeding and reckless driving.

    Would also support the introduction of driving lessons in schools.


  • #25
    kippy
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    00112984 wrote: »
    Lower the ridiculously high insurance policies for young drivers.

    I'm from Kerry and grew up in an area where you have two types of young male driver-

    1) The types from wealthy families who drive around in souped-up, Modified Subarus and Audis and wore the fact that they could pay the insurance on such a car as a badge of honour. It went to their heads so we always had a lot of young guys racing eachother through towns just to draw attention to the fact that they could drive such cars.

    2) The types from not so wealthy families who drove around in souped-up, modified Micras and Puntos and tried to keep up with the Subarus.

    Removing the high insurance costs would open the market to more young drivers and reduce the novelty, show-off factor that leads to speeding and reckless driving.

    Would also support the introduction of driving lessons in schools.

    That makes absolutely ZERO sense.


  • #26
    Mrmoe
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    One solution would be fit all cars with a GPS based speed limiter. This would set the maximum speed that you can drive in a particular location. I would also introduce a blackbox type system for the first 3-4 years for a new driver and use this to determine insurance and licensing issues. You could use this to limit the speed on certain blackspot and dangerous routes.

    I do not think raising the age at which someone can drive will work. If anything it should be lowered. I would say that a big reason why older drivers have less accidents is that they have more experience.If you increase the age limit you will merely be transferring the inexperience to an older age bracket.

    I do not think you will ever eliminate accidents and we will always have a certain baseline level that are often unavoidable. There are so many factors that could influence whether an accident occurs or not.

    There should also be more unmarked traffic core cars to spot bad driving. I think any one who drives will see bad driving on a daily basis. People will not do this as often if there is a chance there is an unmarked car behind them.


  • #27
    Tomebagel
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    kippy wrote: »
    That makes absolutely ZERO sense.

    Actulally it does


  • #28
    challengemaster
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    Biggins wrote: »
    1. Because some care and wish to express regret at such things happening.

    2. As a reminder that accidents occur and to be careful out there.

    3. Because they in the accident have now passed away, their deaths will not be just not thought of with the same value as yesterdays chip wrapping paper. Lives have meaning, well at least to some.

    Sorry if you don't get that.
    This may sound harsh, detatched or whatever else, but...

    How many people die in the world every day though? What makes some more special than others? If everyone were to care about every single person that dies in the world every day, the world would come to a complete halt.

    What about all the people in Pakistan or wherever it is this time, do you care about all of those in the same way?

    People die, it's a fact of life. I for one don't see any point in it when you have no link to them.


  • #29
    kielmanator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 343 ✭✭kielmanator


    I think we should implement driving tests like they have going in Finland.

    There, teenagers in school are taught how to drive in the ice, control fishtails etc.

    Some people may say "But sure, that's drifting, innit?"

    Maybe so, but God knows on more than one occasion that the experience of cars I got from throwing them about in car parks (empty, mind you) has saved my life.:o


  • #30
    00112984
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,600 ✭✭✭00112984


    kippy wrote: »
    That makes absolutely ZERO sense.

    Think about it.

    I don't know how many 17 year old drivers you know but I know a few (nieces and nephews of that age) and they all see their car and ability to drive as an extension of their ego.

    Allowing more 17 year olds on the road at a reasonable rate of insurance would reduce the big-balls factor we see from so many young, male drivers.

    Open up the market and make it the norm for a 17 year old boy to drive; it'll reduce the cause of ego and the showing off.


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  • #31
    Biggins
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    challengemaster wrote: »
    This may sound harsh, detatched or whatever else, but...
    With the greatest of respect, this is not the main topic of this thread so I'm abstaining further from this debate direction.
    Another time, another thread.


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