Garda Mororbike on its side?

Richard tea

Passing through the N4 approaching palmerstown at around midday today the was a Garda motorbike on its side. Part of the road was closed off by a Garda 4x4. Anyone know what happened? I rarely hear about a Garda motorbike cop been in an accident. To think they that they are involved in dangerous pursuits on a weekly basis you would think that there would be more accidents involving them?

AgileMyth

Richard tea wrote: »

Passing through the N4 approaching palmerstown at around midday today the was a Garda motorbike on its side. Part of the road was closed off by a Garda 4x4. Anyone know what happened? I rarely hear about a Garda motorbike cop been in an accident. To think they that they are involved in dangerous pursuits on a weekly basis you would think that there would be more accidents involving them?

Guess it shows the benefit if training.

They should never be involved in 'dangerous' pursuits. The first concern of the emergency services is their own personal safety.

Wossack

not taking anything away from em, but reckon theyre in more then you think

sure if you hadnt spotted this one today, you wouldnt have known about it either

Richard tea

Wossack wrote: »

not taking anything away from em, but reckon theyre in more then you think

sure if you hadnt spotted this one today, you wouldnt have known about it either

True.

BaronVon

I heard he came off the bike while doing an escort. The bike slid, but didn't hit anyone else.

Richard tea

infacteh wrote: »

I heard he came off the bike while doing an escort. The bike slid, but didn't hit anyone else.

Indeed. There was no damage to the bike in sight and no debris so hopefully it wasn't a bad slide.

BaronVon

Apparently the rear wheel locked and he lost control. Could've been a lot worse!

KTRIC

Bike gardai are usually a sound bunch and I take my hat off to their amazing skills in the saddle. Must have been just one of those things that was outside his control.

Suasdaguna1

Hope rider ok. Me thinks they go a bit fast these days........

bladespin

Hopefully whoever took that picture got their points

paddy147

Looks like a "paramedic/doctors bike" to the far left of the pic.

paddy147

Suasdaguna1 wrote: »

Hope rider ok. Me thinks they go a bit fast these days........

The speed of the garda bike leaving the Apple Green Petrol Station (M1 Northbound ) the other day was a tad fast allright.

He just flew out and cut right out accross 2 lanes of oncomming cars and flew up the motorway................no lights or siren on,he just flew out and gunned it.

We were pulling out of the station infront of him and he just flew past us....nearly clipped my girlfriends cars wing mirror,he was that close when passing us.:pac::eek:

HamSambo

I love the little jax on the dashboard :pac:

cantdecide

Wossack wrote: »

not taking anything away from em, but reckon theyre in more then you think

sure if you hadnt spotted this one today, you wouldnt have known about it either

There was a Garda down here in Cork that was knocked off his own FJR a while back when off duty. It kept him off duty for a while. Just goes to show that no matter how much training you get, what we do is still inherently dangerous.

The other side to the coin is I'd say is with regard to bureaucracy and procedure, whenever something like this would happen. What might be a sh1te morning and a spin in a recovery van for a civilian could be an absolute ball of red tape for a guard.

Del2005

cantdecide wrote: »

The other side to the coin is I'd say is with regard to bureaucracy and procedure, whenever something like this would happen. What might be a sh1te morning and a spin in a recovery van for a civilian could be an absolute ball of red tape for a guard.

With the current H&S laws it's the same amount of paper work for all workplace incidents, loads, doesn't matter what organisation your in.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Del2005 wrote: »

With the current H&S laws it's the same amount of paper work for all workplace incidents, loads, doesn't matter what organisation your in.

No its not the same for all work accidents.