Another Serious Car Crash

Doesn'tt really reveal any details of what causes individual accidents though just figures on them, its the root cause and report on an individual cause is required so people can unfortunately learn from others

I tried to overtake a slow-moving tractor and I got rear-ended by the car behind me. Can I sue the tractor driver? (msn.com)

"When I attempted to overtake at one point, I had to brake suddenly and pull back into my lane sharply due to an on coming car. This caused the car behind to rear-end me, causing significant damage — and one of my kids has a whiplash injury.

I am being blamed for causing this accident when it was clearly this farmer’s fault. I have his number plate."

In other words:

"I lacked the competence to plan and execute an overtake, but attempted to overtake into oncoming traffic with my kids in the car. Then the moron behind me crashed into me. But yeah, it was totally the fault of the guy in front of me".

The quality of the roads being driven on is also dire in many regions and that includes the N roads.

What I’ve also noticed on R and back roads is when they do resurface them, they take off a minimal layer and pour on top of that but by doing so they reduce the width of the road. Would it be that hard to scrape back the grass/overgrown sides and reinstate the existing width?

I also would question the thought process when planning some of the slip roads off a 100km road. Way too short.

Thoughts with the families that have suffered tragedies in the last week. Rest in peace.

actually i think this is very true a lot of stuff seems to be swept under the carpet by the you're been insensitive call.

we don't seem to learn anything from these crashes. occasionally you here ythe guards saying it was excessive speed but I know plenty of roads that will cause you problems well under the speed limit.

were cars modified, loads of cars with lowered suspension undersized tyres on oversize wheels etc etc

like the OP says I don't think I've ever seen a report o any of these incidents unless there's a criminal case against the driver.

Huge but what you are suggesting is impossible with current resources

Not where I got my numbers from - source https://www.garda.ie/en/roads-policing/statistics/roads-policing-fatalities-to-date-for-2023/

I presume the RSA publish more detailed data

This I find truly bizarre. Two-lane roads with good viewing in Dublin often have a speed limit of 60, then fairly narrow country roads with numerous twists and bends and hedges blocking the view have speed limit of 80. Makes zero sense

The driving behaviours of a significant amount of drivers here is Ireland is truly shocking. You've only got to drive on a motorway and see the dreadful behaviour. Merging onto a motorway or dual carriageway - no signalling, or driving the length of the entry lane at full pelt, not taking into consideration traffic already on the road, who may not be able to edge to another lane. Driving practically up the back of a car in front, to the point of if stopping, an accident is going to happen at some point. I was driving during the recent storm Betty near Drogheda on the motorway - many cars were not slowing down to suit the road and weather conditions.

French friends also commented on how drivers behave here, they'd hired a car and said the motorway behaviours were bad, but rural roads were really scary as the speeds and undertaking/ overtaking in places shocked them.

There will always be things that we cant help, including sudden illness, mechanical failure such as tyre blow out, but responsibility also has to be apportioned to the human element for behaviours.

We do not know what happened in this latest tragedy - I can only say that a family and community are forever changed in such a dreadful way. RIP to them all and for the survivors, their families, the first responders, I hope they get the help that they need. For such a dedicated bunch of men and women, they need all the aid we can give them.

Not going to work in Rural Ireland too easily, nice idea for cities and larger urban areas.

Not referring to this incident in any way, but on your point as to why people are having crashes with such force etc, modern cars can lure people into a false sense of security, all the electronic protections and driving aids can only do so much but people may not realise just how much they are saving them from themselves as they drive along, when it does genuinely go wrong no amount of electronics can defy physics, difference is it has probably gone wrong at a higher speed than would have been the case years ago.

Not that I believe that getting rid of these systems is a solution, nor is just complaining about speeding, education and driver training for all drivers, old and new is required.

Someone mentioned earlier driver training and teaching people about skidding / worn tyres etc which is probably a good point, skid pan training would probably be eye opening.

We do not know the cause of most RTA unless it's hearsay from locals and he said, she said whispers. Yes, it's tragic for families involved, but we really need to be informed as to how a certain contributing factor was a cause of a death, be it speed, crap road surface, phone usage or whatever, to prevent more families being broken.

We need the cold, sharp reality of the reasons of road deaths. We need to feed that information into social media and any other form of feed necessary.