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Donegal accidents and deaths.

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  • #52
    timmyntc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,380 ✭✭✭timmyntc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122602293#Comment_122602293

    You were caught out spreading falsehoods then attempted to double down claiming it was what was being said locally, and now you are making false claims about another incident (the previous weekend saw a single car collision that killed both occupants. Nobody lived to "scarper").

    Boy racers are a scourge but that's no excuse for trying to hijack tragic events to fit your agenda.



  • #53
    JVince
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122602442#Comment_122602442

    It was said quite clearly by a local person in the dining room of ballyliffin golf club.

    He was there again on Sunday and I checked what they said after reading your post and they said it was the previous weekend there was a car crashed and the occupants abandoned it.

    I then amended my post

    You seem to not like the truth that young men in cars in Donegal are a scourge on the roads.



  • #54
    downthemiddle
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122604064#Comment_122604064

    There is a particular irony in you talking about truth when your posts are riddled with misinformation.



  • #55
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,381 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    People blaming road layouts and junctions... how do the hundreds of thousands of other drivers manage to not crash at these places every single day? Most likely because they're not driving like entitled asshats. Every single road is safe to drive if people drive to the road and not their own egos. No such thing as accidents, always someone to blame.



  • #56
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,876 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122591323#Comment_122591323

    Cork has a stronger culture of 'rallying' and drinks driving. The difference with Donegal seems to be car dependency, long distances between places where people live and want/need to go and a culture of travelling further for a night out.



  • #57
    Maxface
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭Maxface


    Underfunded county. Very little other transport options. Very little for people to do after 5pm. Need to travel for miles to take part in sport. What else is there to do up there. This Government and previous Governments, and the various T.D.s that have served who have done nothing for the place. The likes of Pat the Cope Gallagher who I see is trying to run again and will probably jump on the Ceann Comhairle seat straight away if elected. Improve the place, give it investment, give people transport options, give people opportunities and if they are still crashing the odd time, blame them then.



  • #58
    Rows Grower
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    To be fair I checked out if there is any public transport available near to where we are staying next month and even though it's a fairly remote spot they actually do have a Local Link service that runs every couple of hours and will take you to and collect you from most places within an hours drive.

    A very handy service for when we both want to have a few drinks. There's a similar service here in south Kerry and it's a major boost for the pubs on the side of the road.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • #59
    JVince
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122604109#Comment_122604109

    Can you point some out? (did you seriously go back and search and read my posts and try and pick one or two out that might have a tiny error and always corrected if such an error occurs?? - you seriously can't be THAT sad!!

    Let be factual here.

    The driver was pissed and drugged out of his mind and has been arrested.

    FACT!



  • #60
    drury..
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122604247#Comment_122604247

    A factcheck on this post would be interesting



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  • #61
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,381 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122605765#Comment_122605765

    A fact check that all "accidents" have someone to blame? Literally just take anywhere there's been any "accident", see if its happening every single vehicle that goes that road, and if if its only happening to the odd vehicle, its not the location.

    Won't find anything saying that, nor will you find anything saying that they were indeed actual accidents. But statistics and 10 years of experience as a Garda has shown me that all crashes have blame, just most people don't like to think they did something wrong. This is why police agencies call them collisions. Even loose loads and bad roads are causes, so not an accident if someone crashes due to either of them. And unless every car that goes past that specific location crashes then its most likely down to driver behaviour or inattentiveness, otherwise every vehicle would be crashing in the same place...



  • #62
    niloc1951
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122599765#Comment_122599765

    Why not do what's done in France where an N road and a D road (R here) meet, put in a roundabout.



  • #63
    timmyntc
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122605569#Comment_122605569

    The driver was pissed and drugged out of his mind and has been arrested.

    "Pissed and drugged" - again that is not a fact that is gossip.



  • #64
    raze_them_all_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,776 ✭✭✭raze_them_all_


    The highest ownership of rally cars privately per capita in Europe I believe



  • #65
    timmyntc
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    Of course drivers are to blame for crashes - cars don't drive themselves. But bad road design makes crashes far more likely - which is why we had in the past (and currently still do to some extent) a national effort at road redesign to make bad roads safer.

    If it was all down to drivers and not road design then how do accident blackspots come about? Are we to believe that blackspots are some kind of magnet for bad drivers as opposed to bad road design making probability of a collision more likely?



  • #66
    NIMAN
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    Op will love the news of another serious crash in Donegal tonight.



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  • #67
    Rows Grower
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122606691#Comment_122606691

    Jesus, that's a horrible thing to say.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • #68
    Soc_Alt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 227 ✭✭Soc_Alt


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122606691#Comment_122606691

    I won't drag myself down to your level.

    Your protectionism of a county is very odd.



  • #69
    Rows Grower
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    That poor man that was seriously injured in the motorbike accident in Bunbeg yesterday has passed away.

    May he rest in peace.

    That's 14 deaths on Donegal roads this year, 4 more than last year.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • #70
    Soc_Alt
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    tragic death of an 80 year old pedestrian stuck by a van today near Clonmany.

    RIP.

    I've seen the R238 mentioned in a number of incidents over the years.



  • #71
    Rows Grower
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122631971#Comment_122631971

    May he rest in peace.

    The BBC have reported that's the 9th death on Donegal roads since mid July.

    Horrendous statistics.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



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  • #72
    Thelonious Monk
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    why are so many older pedestrians killed by motorists? pedestrians killed by motorists always seems to be old people in rural ireland



  • #73
    magicbastarder
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    part of that might be that they're less able to survive the collision. and/or more likely to be out walking?



  • #74
    Soc_Alt
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122632615#Comment_122632615

    I think in many areas there are no footpaths along rural roads where alot of older people may live. I'm not sure.



  • #75
    magicbastarder
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122631971#Comment_122631971

    the R238 is the main ring road around inishowen, linking the larger towns - moville, carn, buncrana, and back to derry, so carries a lot of traffic.



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