When not to rubber neck!

flanzer

I don't know if any of yous saw the 4 car pile-up on the N32 this morning but my Dad was in the Fiesta 2nd from the back the got horsed out of it by the Pajero. Luckily enough he's no injuries but the car is a write off. None of the other occupants in the other cars had any injuries either.

When I got to the scene though I parked up on the path across the road away from any traffic. I then carefully crossed the road to the scene of my Dads crash. I was talking to him when all of a sudden....BANG.....a rubber necker across the road had ran up the back of an Almera. So you can imagine how the traffic was affected after that!

So within the space of a half hour there was 2 incidents, 1 of them that could have easily been avoided. The chap in the Almera was taken away in an ambulance and neck brace.

But the main point I want to get across is, how even rubber necking can cause accidents!

Seanie M

Irish drivers are stupid for rubbernecking and holding up traffic. Even if it is in the opposing lanes of the damn motorway.

blastman

Yep.

Witness the ferris wheel that occasionally appears just off the M50 near Liffey Valley every so often...

testicle

blastman wrote:

Yep.

Witness the ferris wheel that occasionally appears just off the M50 near Liffey Valley every so often...

It's like the TARDIS!

Anan1

Seanie M wrote:

Irish drivers are stupid for rubbernecking and holding up traffic. Even if it is in the opposing lanes of the damn motorway.

Unfortunately it's a worldwide phenomenon, not just an Irish thing. The only real solution is opaque barriers in the central reservation.

prospect

Agreed with Anan1

Glad your dad is okay.

fletch

Tis a fact of life alright.....

Seth Brundle

Sure there are tailbacks daily along the M50 to view gardai who have pulled over hard shoulder drivers and more recently tailbacks due to peoples interest in seeing a Hymac at work! Yesterday, traffic had to slow to see the US style tow truck.

dubtom

It drives me mental, travelling north on the M50, just after the blanch exit the road rises to a crest of a hill, the south bound lane seems to have a black spot just there, and I would arrive at the crest in traffic at 5mph to a clear motorway ahead.All it takes is one joe to slow and look and everything slows to a crawl.

Wishbone Ash

kbannon wrote:

Yesterday, traffic had to slow to see the US style tow truck.

Something like that would interest me but what I can't understand is when people go orgasmic and hit the brakes when they see a pheasant on the side of the road/field/ditch etc. WTF! it's just another bird.

fletch

kbannon wrote:

Yesterday, traffic had to slow to see the US style tow truck.

Yesterday I saw that alright....is that the free tow service operating at the moment? Amd yes I did rubberneck but traffic was crawling anyway!

franksm

God bless the rubberneckers !!

Interesting accident this morning at about 0700h where the N4 slips onto the M50 southbound - looked like a Dutch-registered artic had bullied a Renault 19 van thing upinto the grass verge (its nose was practically buried. The whole nearside of the can was scraped too. More probably the van had tried to bully the artic (instead of merging 1:1) and had come off worse.

Anyway... the main carriage way had practically come to a standstill as idiots stopped to watch the pretty truck and the not so pretty van. Left lots of room for the rest of us slipping onto the M50. Have never seen it so clear...

<twats>

conor_mc

kbannon wrote:

Sure there are tailbacks daily along the M50 to view gardai who have pulled over hard shoulder drivers and more recently tailbacks due to peoples interest in seeing a Hymac at work! Yesterday, traffic had to slow to see the US style tow truck.

Yep, stuck in that the other day too.

Yesterday it was several orange straps that were hanging from the top of the new water tower near Finglas.... I swear to God, everybody had to slow down and look in case they missed the crazy stuntmen who were due to rappel from the top of the tower at any second..... oh no, wait, there was nobody up there.... :rolleyes:

Big Nelly

Seanie M wrote:

Irish drivers are stupid for rubbernecking and holding up traffic. Even if it is in the opposing lanes of the damn motorway.

Its a worldwide thing, was in the UK and the same thing where nearly 3 lanes had stopped to look at an accident on the other side of the road, traffic delays where mental

Then was in the US and the whole freeway was going no mile an hour while a few people decided to more or less stop to have a gander. Its not an irish problem it everywhere!! one of the girls from the US had a very funny name for them but I cant for the life of me remember it

you will have nosey f**ks in every country in the World

holly_johnson

Big Nelly wrote:

Then was in the US and the whole freeway was going no mile an hour while a few people decided to more or less stop to have a gander.

Agree totally. I was in Florida last year and the I4 was backed up for about 6 miles. Just crawling. Got to the spot at last to find out it was rubbernecking at a broken down car on the other side of the freeway... After that, the road was completely clear! Unbelievable.