Die Zahl der Verkehrstoten in Irland nimmt zu
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Von shnarfelberry
Die Zahl der Verkehrstoten in Irland nimmt zu
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Von shnarfelberry
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Accounting for population change?
Less gaurds and more cars on the roads i reckon
The standard of driving in the last few years is starting to become a joke. Red lights mean nothing, zero police, phone, taxis are crazy
Can we see the trend from 1970.
People are on the rise too lol, we have packed on double digit % since then
More people and more cars. Let’s see the figures per capita.
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Infrastructure needs to change to supplement population growth.
I’m surprised it’s not higher with the amount of troglodytes driving nowadays
Fucking phones
LED headlights!!!! I’m sure there’s other factors but driving when not being able to see, appears to be hazardous to me
I don’t need the stats. I see so many looking down and texting/watching TikTok while driving. Some seriously selfish pricks out there.
Mobile phone use is absolutely out of control. Red lights seem to be treated as advisory.
One thing that’s hardly ever mentioned is that serious injuries on our roads have more than doubled in the last ten years. It’s ten times higher than deaths at around 1500 per year.
Ireland has a comparatively low incidence of road fatalities.
The sheer amount of people who are on their phones is alarming. Stopped in traffic. Stopped at lights. They’re always on it, and looking at their lap or steering wheel. It’s only getting worse as people get more and more hooked to their social media.
Anecdotally, the standard of driving has been completely enshittified in the last few years – red lights are suggestions, people on making reels on Instagram or whatever they’re up to, weirdos with no patience and road rage.
Driving the work van today and the first 3 cars I passed on the opposite side of the junction all the drivers were on their phones. It’s shocking.
I was told on Reddit a few days ago that Ireland was a really safe place to drive.
The amount of absolute clowns using their phones while driving and people driving under influence of whatnot is appalling and rising death rates are not suprising at all. Poland on the other hand is seeing great reduction in road deaths thanks to significantly increased penalties for speeding, drink driving etc. and also strong road policing – cops are everywhere and you dont mess with them!
There’s nothing suggests it’s the population growth, it is the car growth in the country.
https://www.classichits.ie/news/national-news/irelands-car-dependency-and-ev-tremulousness-revealed-in-survey/#:~:text=A%202022%20European%20Commission%20survey,at%2085%25%20(9).
We are an outlier in EU for car dependency, public transport is unreliable and in many places outside of Dublin it’s almost non existent, this is why we have too many cars on the road which increases the probability for traffic accidents, even death.
check out r/irelandsshitedrivers for many examples of why this is the case. We drive like lunatics
I know everyone tightly gives out about the phones but the dashes of cars are like computers these days. Neither a radio or air con can be a simple knob. It’s as distracting as phones.
We shouldn’t just judge road safety based on deaths. It lulls us into a false sense of safety. We should be looking at total accidents, and accidents resulting in injury. Give us the juicy stats to look at.
People are in denial because our deaths were so low compared to other countries a few years ago. If they keep growing like this in another few years we’ll really have something to worry about.
Phones, lack of static speed cameras, lack of traffic Garda.
ITT: people who don’t understand that a large increase in percentage can be because there is a change to a small number.
Irish roads are some of the safest in the world. This is pure ragebait
Driving at night is taking your life in your hands these days – between the ones with one light working, the lads with all the fogs on when there’s no fog, and my particular favourite, being the “let’s dim our lights when we have already blinded you with our LED headlights” crowd 🙈 – throw in the too big CIE rectangular shaped bus barrelling down a side road at you and the potholes and ya, no wonder the deaths are climbing – crazy out there lately 🙈
The amount of people that break red lights here is crazy
Also note a lot of these deaths are pedestrians killed by drivers
No surprise there. We’ve collectively gone insane since 2020 or thereabouts.
It’s shocking. I’m not perfect but I see red light runners, speeding, bad motorway etiquette.
Lack of attention due to phones being used must be a big factor. I’d say these figures are partly pedestrian deaths also.
This is such a crock of manure stat 🤯- of the EU27 we have the 7th LOWEST ROAD FATALITIES per head of popln!!!
7th!!! – for the slow brain drivers out there that means 20 other countries are worse than us!!!
But hey – throw out a % rise without any context and all the “Jesus Mary and the little donkey Joe there is murder on our roads every day, ban all cars Joe!!!!”
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but in actual real terms. Poland has just under 2000 deaths in 2024. Its working from a much higher base. Were top 5 safest in the world
Acceptation for L drivers without a companion, poor knowledge how to use correct lines on motorways, lack of knowledge how to switch on correct lights, how to turn off fog lights.
For all of this, no consequences at all.
Is there a breakdown of how people died? E.g. blatent speed, drink or drugs, car defects, weather conditions, distracted driver, careless predrestians/cyclists, bad driving.
Well they keep improving roads and the network but only like to watch trains go by as a comparison. They need to induce demand by building more rail, and light rail networks around the country. They will bring road deaths down and traffic
People in this thread looking for excuses to explain away the data but the fact is our roads are simply less safe.
I hate numbers like these with no context. I know I will get downvoted into oblivion for even suggesting this but maybe the increase of road death percentages is due to the very small number of road deaths we have per year. We are almost statistically insignificant especially compared to countries like the UK and germany. Take into account the increase in drivers over those years maybe makes more sense? Also how are most road deaths occurring? Is Lorry jack knifing? Is it joy riders? If the RSA had any actual interest in improving road safety they would release that data and use it to make roads safer rather than just an excuse for motor insurance companies to increase premiums and have the old speed van parked next to the safest road in town.