Standard of Driving in Freefall in Last Six Months ?

I think there's been a thread the exact same every six months since the dawn of time, but congratulations on the "da immigrits" angle 🙄

I'm clearly not an observant driver because I can never tell what nationality the drivers of other cars around me are.

I noticed that after returning to the country. It's likely a combination of busier roads and bigger population as the main factor and then, lack of policing, more pressurized lifestyles and yes large scale immigration especially in the Dublin area. You would have to be blind not to see that. Most countries don't have rigorous training and driving tests such as Ireland. Its not just the cars ,its the escooters, the ebikes, the delivery trucks , the whole shebang. The lads rip around on the ebikes with not two shites given, no reg plate, no ID could be anybody.

Illegal phone use while driving is rampant in Ireland now, people don't even try to hide the fact they are using the phone. makes me think are the Guards actually catching people for it anymore or are they turning a blind eye to it?

N5 is 2 lanes with hard shoulders? So you were on the wrong side of the road and barged your way through. Would it have been safer for her to get out of your way? Yes. But you were in the wrong

Stop signs are ornamental now.

Texting, video calls, web browsing etc are the norm for a lot of people. ‘Sure I’ve never had an accident doing it, what harm am I doing?’

200,000 cars with no insurance on the road. God knows how many more with no licence.

Pedestrians just walking out in front of you in towns now. Dunno if this is anti-car mentality or hoping for a claim.

On a bright note though I’ve noticed the standard of cycling improve a lot.

I commute on a motorbike, I see a lot more drivers and their behaviour than you would driving a car. I have found the amount of people scrolling on their phones has jumped massively recently, I would actually worry about where it will become when the next generation are driving. Red light breaking is bad but I think no worse than in the late 2000s pre recession. On the general standards of driving, like the red light breaking I think a lot of it has to do with the economy, too busy to be a decent human being basically..

Me too. You can very quickly tell the drivers who are "switched on" and the ones who are zombies.

Those "The Cyclists" are responsible for the Wars in Ukraine, civil unrest in Sudan, and Climate change... oh no wait, that's motor vehicles...

Sister-in-law had an idiot drive into the back of her brand new car last Friday. She was stopped in a short queue at red traffic lights. Light went green and traffic began moving. Car in front of her jammed on the brakes for some reason so sister-in-law did the same. She then looked in the rear view mirror as the moving car behind her continued to draw closer and she could clearly see that the driver was looking down (at his phone, I can only assume) and not ahead. A couple of seconds later and his car had crashed into hers.

That is really horrific driving that I've seen many a time. If a small child had wandered out in front of that car, the driver would have literally driven over it, completely unaware due to inept lack of awareness.

If I had been in her shoes, I would have reported that driver for driving without due care and attention.

Did she not report him for using their phone?

I have seen idiots driving massive tractors texting/on the phone, lorry drivers etc and in built up areas as well, I always think the same that if a child ran out in front of them they wouldn't have chance.

The fines need to be put up to at least 500 euro and they need to start going after these drivers.

I remember lately they raised the fine from 80 to 160 euro for phone use while driving. I counted 7 or 8 drivers at least that morning from 9 am to 12 pm on their phones, unreal. A lot of Irish people just think the rules don't apply to them and this attitude needs to be stamped out.

I remember seeing this young guy driving at 100 kmph towards me texting, if I had the chance I would tear him a new one, the little $hit, he could kill a whole family if he had hit them head on.

A guard on a height with binoculars, he/she can then let a Guard in a car up ahead know which car to pull over.

There was a guy driving around my local town for around 6 months with no front number plate. There was a good few young lads driving with no front number plate. it was obviously the cool thing to do for a while. eventually they must have been told to cop on and put them back on but it took months.

I'd beg to differ, the standard of driver training and testing in Ireland is absolutely abysmal when you compare with the extra hoops you must jump through in other European countries before they give you a licence. We have an awful lot to do to bring that standard up.

Didn't you know? Red Lights are just suggestions!

I do think what encourages this, is terrible light sequencing and short green cycles, noone wants to be stuck behind the lights. See also, blocking the box

That and id say they think it looks cool. They usually have the number plate on their dash where a speed camera van wouldnt be able to read it.

Also I saw one of them doing around 60 mph in a 30mph zone once so they are the kind that definitely should have the number plates on their bumpers where they are supposed to be.

They were drawn from all over the country for that gig.

One district justice on finding that members of AGS were not in court because of Biden threw the cases out.

Did you report that lorry driver?