What is your driving style?

CiniO

ardmacha wrote: »

I think the comparison is obvious, Polish drivers kill 175% more people than Irish ones.

brokenarms wrote: »

Wow.
So it not racist to say Polish cant drive ..

They really cant.

Jausuzzzzz . But Lithuania .

To be honest that's just statistics.

When comparing with Ireland you have to accomodate with some facts.

1. Traffic in Poland is way higher than in Ireland. Amount of roads per amount of vehicles in much smaller. And to all this adds a huge amount of transit international traffic hauling between East and West of Europe, very often on normal single carriageways, as motorway network is not developed enough.

2. Car fleet is way outdated. Most people drive 10 yo+ cars, as they can't offord newer ones. Most of those cars don't have modern safety equipment like ABS, airbags, ESP, appropriate crush-control zones, or sometimes even seatbelts on older cars. That generally means, that accident which in Ireland could be property damage only, might finish fatal in Poland for someone in 20 year old cinquecento.

3. There is a lot of bicycle and pedestrian traffic on main roads between villages in less urbanised areas, as people just can't afford cars. Instead they just walk or cycle for several kilometres, often in darkness f.e. after drinking, without wearing any lights or reflective jackets. That makes very big percentage of road death victims to be pedestrians and cyclists.


When you consider all above (and possibly few other factors that I didn't think about) Poland doesn't actually come that bad.
Once you know and obey rules of the road there, driving is much easier, as less situations occur when you have to accommodate for other drivers mistakes, like in Ireland

keithclancy

Where did this 'Polish' thing come from.

Could be a Lithuanian driving a Polish registered car for god sake !

....gets coat....

CiniO

keithclancy wrote: »

Where did this 'Polish' thing come from.

Could be a Lithuanian driving a Polish registered car for god sake !

....gets coat....

THB OP started this thread as he wanted to compare Irish drivers to Polish drivers.

dr.fuzzenstein

CiniO wrote: »

THB OP started this thread as he wanted to compare Irish drivers to Polish drivers.

I think it can be said that the Irish are fairly lukewarm and limp-wristed drivers when compared to the continent at large, even though in many ways they are more passive-aggressive and non-compliant with the rules. I always found people on the mainland have a far more positive, firm and assertive driving style, accelerate better from the lights and coming onto the motorway, keep to the rules, don't throw a strop when beeped at or flashed, have better lane discipline, more regard for the rules in general and for parking regulations in non-public places in particular (supermarkets and so on), are more aware of their surroundings (i.e. plan further than 2 meters ahead of their bonnet), observe signs and markings and all this makes for far more relaxed driving in most situations, because you know exactly what everyone is going to do at any time. I have criss-crossed a lot of Europe by car and it's always been good. I might guess that Eastern Europe is a bit madder than the rest...
The bad point would be the traffic jams, you will never again complain about sitting in a bit of traffic here after sitting in a jam in germany and not moving for half an hour. And that's not even bad, people have sat in jams for several hours.
I have seen pedestrians step into traffic in Germany and other places, not because they have a deathwish or want to use their pram as a battering ram, but because they know that the cars have seen them and will stop. How 50 pedestrians a day are not killed here, I just do not know.