Who polices the M50

csirl

Yesterday morning I entered the M50 northbound at Cherrywood. On front of me was a car that was drifting back and forth across all the lanes - not reacting to traffic etc - like a pendulum - drift left to edge of road, then drift right across 2-3 lanes into ovettakiing lane, drift left etc. Was travellling at c.90-100kmph. Vety dangerous. Were several near misses with unsuspecting drivers, many having to brake/swerve.

Me and a number of other cars just kept back - a distance behind as you couldnt take the risk of being hit if you drove in lane beside or tried to ovettake.

Car left the motorway at the Red Cow junction and went on its merry way with no consequences.

Where were the guards? Where were the warnings for driver? M50 is full of cameras - do traffic control watch them? How could a car doing this drive such a long distance on a busy road and no Gardai appear?

Citrus_8

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058334605/who-polices-the-m50

A short answer is that there's very limited policing on the M50. Drivers not being aware is another issues as they don't use mirrors often enough.

Vic_08

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058334605/who-polices-the-m50

Why is it people just expect thing to be done by someone, there very obviously isn't a someone monitoring general driver behaviour.

Did you ring the police to report this dangerous driver?

beachhead

Most likely not enough staff in the Gardai to monitor the cameras full time and takes months to follow up if you report a driver as you have seen.

bk

This is something that people don't understand, there are vastly more cameras then people to monitor them. And I don't mean just on the M50, but across buses, Luas, rail, city center security cameras, etc.

It would be impossible for staff to monitor all the cameras all the time. Sure, sometimes they might spot something unusual and pick it up fast, like someone speeding at a very high speed, but many things go unnoticed.

What can happen is if someone reports an issue, they can then check it in real time, for instacne if someone on the Luas texts that helpline, then security would check the cameras on that particular Luas and send Gardai/security if need be.

They can also be used after the fact, to use as evidence, etc.

This might somewhat change in future with AI monitoring of cameras, the AI watches the cameras and highlights to a human operator for further review anything unusual they spot.

Murph_D

This might somewhat change in future with AI monitoring of cameras, the AI watches the cameras and highlights to a human operator for further review anything unusual they spot.

What could possibly go wrong? 😛