Irish Road Deaths Stop The Carnage Week
Road deaths in Ireland have been a terrible problem for so many years but fatalities seem to keep climbing no matter how aware Irish drivers are on the dangers of our roads.
Damian Blake, a Councillor for Letterkenny in County Donegal and ex-mayor of the town, has taken to his blog to rally up support in doing something about this major problem we have and for us to label this “Stop The Carnage Week”.
Irish law is a complete joke when it comes to sentencing driving offenders and its about high time people rallied together to voice their opinion, before anymore people are killed on Irish roads.
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October 27th, 2006 at 6:14 am
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October 30th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
I’ve been driving many times on Ireland roads . Despite of officials call, they’re few important measures to stop carnage .
1) More garda , more speed cameras….more repression
2) speed road posts which correspond to the state of roads (ie on a western narrow bumpy rocky road speed limit is 80km/h, no doubt if you drive at 80, you’re killed…….who order to put there such a road post)
April 10th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Three simple words: Education, education, education. People need to know that speed is a problem and then they need to understand that getting somewhere 2 minutes early is not really that much of an achievement. There is no driver education in Ireland that isn’t linked to some profit making scheme the government needs to take radical steps to driver education just like they have done in Germany and many other countries.
May 6th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
I am from the UK but a regular driver on Irish roads in my work. Obviously Ireland cannot update all its roads at once but is making good progress.
Many of your main roads are very wide but are still limited to one lane each way because of the routine ‘hard shoulder’ which goes virtually unused. These roads could accomodate at least three usable lanes with the central lane an alternating overtaking lane allowing traffic held up behind slow lorries or tractors to get past at least every kilometre or so. This would reduce the impatient frustration and minimise the time spent overtaking in the lane of oncoming traffic with inevitable fatal misjudgements.