Meinung: Übergroße SUVs sind für Fußgänger gefährlicher. Ist es Zeit für eine zusätzliche Abgabe auf neue?
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/08/26/opinion-supersized-suvs-are-more-dangerous-to-pedestrians-is-it-time-for-an-extra-levy-on-new-ones/
Von Banania2020
39 Kommentare
Yes.
We don’t have oversized SUVs
Is this America?
Are we perhaps talking about Crossovers here?
We don’t really get supersized SUVs here because they don’t fit on our roads. BMX X7 is probably the biggest? But it has 7 seats which some families need and it’s no bigger than a van with 3 rows of seats. Plus all these new cars have the sensors and radar that detect pedestrians in front of the car. In reality I’ll never have a need to buy one so I don’t care if they get taxed more.
For city folk yes, country dwellers no. No need for a gwagon in Dublin but a farmer in roscommon shouldn’t be paying extra to drive a beater of a landcruiser.
Stop trying to regulate us by levies. We are up to our neck in levies.
If they’re dangerous, ban them. If they’re not dangerous, leave them alone.
Some roads aren’t even big enough for them. They are completely unnecessary cars
They’re like tanks these days
No we shouldn’t have a levy…
We should have regulations that ban heavy high fronted vehicles for non-commercial use.
A levy just means the rich are given a greater right to drive the child crushers.
The American pickup trucks are a bigger issue. I’ve seen a few around Dublin and they’re gargantuan with a very high grill, which coupled with their weight and size makes them extremely dangerous, especially around suburbs where I spotted them.
> It’s not a tax on SUVs. It’s a tax on the smug and on people we don’t like.
This line in this article encapsulates the argument for most of the anti-SUV crowd many you get on this sub.
It they’re more dangerous, they should just be banned. We’ve been better off as a whole without them. Big stupid looking things.
Is tax based on the number of pedestrians killed? What about if my model of vehicle has advanced features that has meant no pedestrians have been killed with it? Or is there another reason people pick out this type of car? Buses and trucks are obviously less safe to be run over with, if a pedestrian. Are they ok or to be taxed higher. Maybe they are seen as utilitarian and so allowances are to be made but then who is judging the utility of a larger personal vehicle? Perhaps someone has more kids, or wheelchairs or something else that makes the larger car useful to them.
Maybe we should just build good public transportation and increase road charges for all personal transportation vehicles.
We have to honestly ask ourselves..do we need large SUVs enough to outweigh the increased risk to children, pedestrians and cyclists?
A recent systematic review and meta analysis of 600,000 collisions showed children were 82% more likely to be killed if struck by an SUV or LTV.
The likelihood of a pedestrian or cyclist being fatally injured is 44% higher if they are hit by a sports utility vehicle (SUV) or light truck vehicle (LTV-covers SUVs/small vans and pick up trucks) compared with smaller passenger cars.
Study: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/2025/04/11/ip-2024-045613
Edit: typo
Make cars even more expensive, despite the extortionately high vat, vrt etc already. Great logic.
I can’t understand the agenda against SUVs, really seems to be driven by jealousy. I drive upwards of 40000km a year, never have a problem with bigger cars wherever I am. Cities, towns etc. It’s the shitbox 1L polo’s, micras and yaris that are a danger on the road, typically driven by old people that got their licences in the post or novices that are petrified to drive at the speed limit
Though I don’t expect any less from here. And by the way, the 3.2 ford ranger is a gorgeous car – change my mind. 🤣
So as I understand, the oversized EV’s, like Volvo EX90, BMW iX and Kia EV9, just to name a few, will be exempted???
One quick look at the average Irish road should be enough to settle this debate. Ban them.
Add a momentum limit to the speed limit. If you don’t have a commercial licence, the speed limit of any vehicle over 2 tonnes should be lower.
Unfortunately, this is now almost all electric vehicles, as batteries are heavy.
Generally the people who want to ban them are the people who can’t afford them, “if i can’t afford one then you can’t have one either “ kinda attitude
We need to tackle their blinding LED headlights tilted directly into the eyes of oncoming traffic.
No, not a levy. They should be completely banned.
A new licence. Make all the shites go back and do their test again.
Leavy is a ban only for the poor.
LOL, again with the „safety“.
Let’s be honest, if a Toyota Yaris was shown to be as unsafe ye wouldn’t be so quick to tax it or ban it.
This is all just just a self righteous and jealous response to control people who drive big cars.
How about we ban the most unsafe vehicles on the road? Motorbikes.
Nearly 30 times more likely to die in an accident than those driving in cars.
I see this sort of article every couple of months. Nothing will happen them
Should be banned outright if they increase the risk of death or serious injury to pedestrians / cyclists in collisions
Yank talking point.
The Kia Sorrentos are killers I tell you!!!
Funny how it talks about increase in weight. Nothing was said about EVs which are heavier than ICE cars when they started becoming popular.
Seen on social media recently: If you need a front-facing camera to see everything in front of your car, then your car is too big
Children are 80% more likely to be killed when hit with an SUV than a typical car.
We as a society have to accept either 1. A nice spacious car is worth children’s lives or 2. Ban on non-commercial uses of them. Right now we’re choosing 1
Gonna go out on a limb and guess that anyone that can afford one of these bad boys, will probably be able to afford any levy that comes with ownership.
Michael McAleer busy keeping his paymasters happy by trotting out nonsense on 7 seaters etc. If it were 30 years ago he’d be writing about how cigarettes are good for you.
No issue with them what so ever!!!
Bigger issue is people driving on there phones and pedestrians on there phones walking out onto roads!!!
Nearly everytime I go to the supermarket and come out a few minutes later, there’s nearly always one of those big ugly bastards parked beside me and I can’t see a fucking thing trying to reverse out.
They also make traffic worse because they don’t fit in lanes and less can fit in between traffic lights
I can’t count how many times that question has been asked and answered. Yet we are nowhere nearer to an actual policy.
I am pro 4×4 & SUVs but those new yank tanks are a joke and need to go asap!!
I was hit by a car going for a jog when i had the green man, thankfully it was a saloon and almost put the back of my head through the windscreen, but was alright otherwise just some bumps and bruises. If that was a chest high truck or SUV I’d be dead.
It’s time to ban them. There’s people going around in Safari trucks in urban areas.
This is just another scam to squeeze money out of people. These are expensive vehicles and the government reckon they can rinse the owners for a few quid.
Everyone will celebrate. Hurray the rich pay another tax. It doesn’t apply to me because I don’t have this car.
But the government will eventually find something you do have that they can put a levy on.
This isn’t about super sized SUVs. This is about the ever increasing cost of living in Ireland.