Accident on Link Tis Morn

ocokev

I didnt see it myself but A few minutes after me there was a bad accident on the south link wonder did this have something to do with it 8.10am.
We all driving along making progress and this plonk doing 15mph max in the middle of rush hour.

MagicMarker

Is that supposed to be a picture of the accident?

keithclancy

ocokev wrote: »

I didnt see it myself but A few minutes after me there was a bad accident on the south link wonder did this have something to do with it 8.10am.
We all driving along making progress and this plonk doing 15mpg max in the middle of rush hour.

He's quite entitled to .. its a Dual Carriageway.

I could ride down there on a Piebald Pony and technically it would be fine.

Unless they've upgraded it to a motorway without me knowledge

Cookie_Monster

ocokev wrote: »

We all driving along making progress and this plonk doing 15mpg max in the middle of rush hour.

not great economy to be honest, but how does that cause an accident?

:pac:

Berty

ocokev wrote: »

We all driving along making progress and this plonk doing 15mpg max in the middle of rush hour.

Damn that JCB really is thirsty on the juice.

EDIT Screw you Cookie Monster

ocokev

MagicMarker wrote: »

Is that supposed to be a picture of the accident?

No. As Above. Just thinking with 2 lanes doing 100kpm and the digger doing approx 30kpm one it propably has a knock on effect to people further down the road. The traffic who get stuck behind at 30kpm have to overtake into traffic doing 100kpm.

ocokev

Berty wrote: »

Damn that JCB really is thirsty on the juice.

EDIT Screw you Cookie Monster

If you want to get anal bout it its not a JCB, its a Massy Ferguson 860 and I know 15mph isnt 30 kpm.

kazul

ocokev wrote: »

The traffic who get stuck behind at 30kpm have to overtake into traffic doing 100kpm.

But it's not invisible.
Check mirrors, signal, mirrors and blind spots, loud pedal, overtake, done.
It's not rocket surgery, it's just overtaking.

bladespin

ocokev wrote: »

I didnt see it myself but A few minutes after me there was a bad accident on the south link wonder did this have something to do with it 8.10am.
We all driving along making progress and this plonk doing 15mpg max in the middle of rush hour.

15mpg is seriously good for a thing that size and weight.

If you're on about motorway rules etc then the vehicle has to be capable of more than 30mph, nowhere does is say it must do that.

R.O.R

There were big groups of idiots (or taxi drivers as some may call them) doing slower speeds on the M50 in rush hour traffic earlier this week.

Shame about the Garda escort they had (great use of taxpayers money), or they would have had the hell beeped out of them.

pa990

looks more like the south ring rd,


south link is a different road

ocokev wrote: »

I didnt see it myself but A few minutes after me there was a bad accident on the south link wonder did this have something to do with it 8.10am.
We all driving along making progress and this plonk doing 15mph max in the middle of rush hour.

mikedragon32

Could be worse. Some muppet on that road this morning was taking pictures whilst driving on the overtaking lane.

Anan1

mikedragon32 wrote: »

Could be worse. Some muppet on that road this morning was taking pictures whilst driving on the overtaking lane.

To be fair, the pic was taken from the LHS of the car while overtaking the JCB.

ocokev

mikedragon32 wrote: »

Could be worse. Some muppet on that road this morning was taking pictures whilst driving on the overtaking lane.

? Car Pooling? Passanger?

ianobrien

That looks like the N8/N25 junction, heading east on the N25

Edit - Were you using a camera phone to take the picture, or was your passanger?

Padraig Mor

ianobrien wrote: »

That looks like the N8/N25 junction, heading east on the N25

Edit - Were you using a camera phone to take the picture, or was your passanger?

Douglas flyover I'd say, heading West. Think I came across the same JCB too a couple of hundred metres further on. Causing a fair bit of disruption.

ocokev

I was driving, passenger took photo. It is illegial to use mobile phones while driving a motor vehicle.
The photo was taken going west on the south link just after the Douglas Shopping interchange.
JCBs are yellow, this is a Massy Ferguson 860.
Ok it probably wasn't responsible for the accident, more than likely driver error and a series of other events, which driving slowly on this stretch of road at this hour could have been one.

pa990

ocokev wrote: »

I was driving, passenger took photo. It is illegial to use mobile phones while driving a motor vehicle.
The photo was taken going west on the south link just after the Douglas Shopping interchange.
JCBs are yellow, this is a Massy Ferguson 860.
Ok it probably wasn't responsible for the accident, more than likely driver error and a series of other events, which driving slowly on this stretch of road at this hour could have been one.

Its the South Ring Road.

The `South Link goes from the Kinsale r-about to Town

pa990

heres a map

pa990

keithclancy wrote: »

He's quite entitled to .. its a Dual Carriageway.

I could ride down there on a Piebald Pony and technically it would be fine.

Unless they've upgraded it to a motorway without me knowledge

i thought the courts ordered you to stay 500yards away from any Piebald Pony

Cookie_Monster

jaysus, all those jumping on him for having a phone and taking a picture, what if was a normal camera, perfectly allowable :D

(and is explained now anyway)

rebel.ranter

keithclancy wrote: »

He's quite entitled to .. its a Dual Carriageway.

Would you agree that he is not allowed to show white lights to the rear? That really pee's me off. Those lights are for use while working not while in motion on a dual Carriageway.

ocokev

rebel.ranter wrote: »

Would you agree that he is not allowed to show white lights to the rear? That really pee's me off. Those lights are for use while working not while in motion on a dual Carriageway.

I reckon he had them on cos his yellow beacon wasn't working while driving on the South Ring this morning.

rebel.ranter

ocokev wrote: »

I reckon he had them on was cos his yellow beacon wasn't working while driving on the South Ring this morning.

Two wrongs don't make a right. That white light is really distracting but more importantly is against the law.

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1931/en/si/0067.html
(stating rear facing lights must be red)

ocokev

rebel.ranter wrote: »

Two wrongs don't make a right. That white light is really distracting but more importantly is against the law.

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1931/en/si/0067.html
(stating rear facing lights must be red)

I agree totally.

keithclancy

pa990 wrote: »

i thought the courts ordered you to stay 500yards away from any Piebald Pony

That was a misunderstanding ... I was trying to chase him away :P