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RSU and Garda Van collide in Cork

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  • #92
    Hogzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭Hogzy


    maglite wrote: »
    I would also say the standard of driving from a lot of Gardaí in Cork leaves a bit to be desired. Most days I'm undertaken by a Garda car on the South Ring.( They seem attracted to the hard shoulder in the morning. Added to that the guys dropping off the summons do not need to get there quickly or use Blue lights, They have HOURS to spare.

    I see this alot too. Especially on the South Link heading out of town at the junction by the Dump. I have seen a Garda drive up the hard shoulder then just drive through the lights slowly. No sirens or anything.

    But lets not turn this thread into a Garda Bashing thread.


  • #93
    mcko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 755 ✭✭✭mcko


    I am not bashing them neither, it wasn't a blow out or mech failure.;)


  • #94
    Shield
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    Thanks for your concern, but the forum moderators are the ones who decide if a thread gets locked, and at the moment, the discussion is within the confines of the charter.
    Bosh wrote: »
    I think this discussion has now stepped right into a legal minefield and need to be locked. Now. :(


  • #95
    [Deleted User]
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    mcko wrote: »
    I know what happened as a friend of mine saw the whole thing, both travelling in the same direction

    And has your "friend" come forward as a witness or are they just spouting crap to others?


  • #96
    mcko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 755 ✭✭✭mcko


    He was told to reverse down the link to the slip to Turners Cross I think it goes.No one asked him for a statement.
    It would be a fool or a brave man to get involved in a crash between a Garda van and a Garda car.


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  • #97
    Jim1234
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    No matter what training they may or may not have there has to be room for human error!


  • #98
    MissEmcee
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    mcko wrote: »
    It would be a fool or a brave man to get involved in a crash between a Garda van and a Garda car.

    Or a normal citizen just saying what the saw would be the action of any normal person and would be treated as such.


  • #99
    0O7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 229 ✭✭0O7


    i know a fella who drives a taxi and went off the road at half 11 in the evening and hit a tree.... therefore ALL taxi drivers are bad drivers and should recieve training...


    Is this not the same as a garda crashing and suddenly all gardai are bad drivers etc?????


  • #100
    AlekSmart
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    0O7 wrote: »
    i know a fella who drives a taxi and went off the road at half 11 in the evening and hit a tree.... therefore ALL taxi drivers are bad drivers and should recieve training...

    Is this not the same as a garda crashing and suddenly all gardai are bad drivers etc?????

    Crikey 007,please don't go there :eek:

    My interest would be in reading whatever report is issued by the Garda Ombudsman relating to this incident.

    The point is that if there is a deficiency in Garda driving training or in the SOP's relating to responses then it is in the Public Interest that the results are made public.

    This issuance of findings should be standard practice for ALL Road Traffic Incidents which result in injury.

    If however,stuff is repressed or concealed simply because members of AGS are involved then the entire oversight procedure is compromised.

    Hopefully in this case that will not happen.


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • #101
    source
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    AlekSmart wrote: »
    This issuance of findings should be standard practice for ALL Road Traffic Incidents which result in injury.

    The problem with this is, publishing a report on all road traffic incidents which result in injury, would prejudice any civil or criminal cases that would be going on in relation to the collision.

    Edit: you could release the findings after the cases have been completed, but that could be years after the collision. At that stage everyone will either have forgotten or the information will not be relevant anymore.


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  • #102
    [Deleted User]
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    Also, who gives a shìt if miss Murphy injured poor Sean because she was doing her make-up? Only sean and his legal representatives.


  • #103
    0O7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 229 ✭✭0O7


    AlekSmart wrote: »
    Crikey 007,please don't go there :eek:

    My interest would be in reading whatever report is issued by the Garda Ombudsman relating to this incident.

    The point is that if there is a deficiency in Garda driving training or in the SOP's relating to responses then it is in the Public Interest that the results are made public.

    This issuance of findings should be standard practice for ALL Road Traffic Incidents which result in injury.

    If however,stuff is repressed or concealed simply because members of AGS are involved then the entire oversight procedure is compromised.

    Hopefully in this case that will not happen.

    agreed. it would be interesting to see....


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