Increase in road deaths - RTE tonight at 9:35pm

Or just more Garda assigned to full-time roads policing duty. An experienced officer out on patrol is sure to pick up the cues or traits of someone on their phone

With the technology we live with today do we really need physical feet on the ground? Cameras should really be able to detect these kinds of things

We are agreed that enforcement is needed though

Yeah but there are certain locations where using a phone or breaking a red light is far more dangerous than others. We're not looking to catch anybody, we want them to drive safer

There should be no excuse for phone usage while at the wheel in 2024. Bluetooth connections are in nearly every new car sold in the last 14 years

Not much help if you want to watch Tik Tok videos or keep up to date on Whatsapp (as some drivers seem to want to do).

Agreed. Scrolling, social media etc is an addiction, and could be as deadly as substance addiction when driving a vehicle.

If a sense of personal responsibility was better...,.

That's not happening

Start hauling them before the courts with 1000 fine and 5points would help

I agree with the latter point on substantial fines. However, if drivers treated their licence to drive as valuable and important to begin with, there would be little need for highly contested court cases. Instead, a cohort are treatinf their licences as a permit to do what they like and impose that on other who value and respect their licence to drive. I was out cycling this afternoon and the amount of close passes, with on coming traffic, before blind bends was insane. In all cases the vehicle coming from behind made no effort to respect others. They just ploughed through like they own the road and there is absolutely no risk to themselves or others. I was out for 2.5hrs, mainly on national roads and never seen one marked Garda vehicle.Things cannot continue like this.

Static, but mobile. The tech is there that they can be portable and battery powered, notwithstanding vehicle based cameras.

I think in the UK for minor offences they give the option of points or a safe driving course.

But we aren't even good at implementing bans in this country.

Have you seen the stats for percentage of people who surrender their licences when they arrive in court? It's terrible. And there is little to no follow up when they don't surrender it.

We have thousands of people driving around in this country who were told by the courts to surrender their licence and simply didn't bother themselves.

we have more then enough laws,as said above what we dont have is enforcement…i give thanks to the hairy dude in the sky that i dont have to travel during the rush hours but even being on the roads at the quieter times of day the amount of stupid driving i see is unreal,overtakes on bends,undertakes on hard shoulders,red lights dont seem to mean anything more of an "advisement",near every driver i see either has the phone clamped to the head or in the lap,its nuts!

Im seriously thinking about buying an old land rover type of maching and kitting it out with full race/rally spec safety roll bars and deepest jungle/outback bullbars front,sides and back!!