So much technology like driver assist and self driving that’s becoming standard.
I expect road deaths will drop below 100 ina few years.
spmccann on
The general standard of driving has seriously deteriorated since COVID, along with the lack of enforcement.
Increased traffic is also contributing to this rise.
TheEnd1235711 on
„The rate in Ireland last year was 34 deaths per million population — up from 32 in 2024 — but still below the EU average of 42 last year.“
So we need to make life even more miserable and place the population under ever greater surveillance to reduce car accidents. At some point, taking more freedoms from the masses makes life too burdensome to bother with.
Polyctor on
While I do agree that the standard of driving has become worse in the past few years, an increase in deaths from 32 to 34 really is not statistically significant enough to warrant an article with such a title…
Internal-Cobbler9140 on
Always trying to make it sound like driving in Ireland is some mad max experience. We have the safest roads in Europe outside of scandanavia.
katsumodo47 on
Not surprising considering the amount of cunts texting while driving
Fyodors-Zossima on
Need more WFH
Dull_Brain2688 on
The last few years have been a downward spiral as far as patience, courtesy and skill behind the wheel. Putting out speed vans to catch people who’ve crept over the limit on good roads is not fixing the pig ignorant, aggressive, tail gating, impatient arseholes who are actually really dangerous.
ChaosActual on
You are more likely to be hit by lightning than get stopped by the Gardai
BigboyBertie on
Bullshit headline our 7% rise is still lower than the European average. So them trending towards us means they are trending down to our level of safety we aren’t getting worse than them.
Would it be fair to say that our population is growing, but some of the growth is made up of inward migration, so some of the new population is people who are old enough to drive, so they go straight out on the roads.
More so than an population increase brought on by an increased birth rate, when you’d have to wait 17years for the increase to get drivers licences?
So number of new drivers every year is actually more than what the population increase might lead you to believe?
Or am I talking absolute boll*cks?
YuntHunter on
We’ve had a 56% fairly steady increase in cars on the road since 2005 it’s a natural consequence and honestly impressive the number isn’t higher all things considered.
ParamedicPrudent5898 on
Cars accelerate far quicker now than they did 10/20 years ago, I often wonder is this a factor
daenaethra on
another pearl clutching headline misrepresenting Ireland’s extremely safe roads
Fern_Pub_Radio on
Th standard of journalism in Ireland today is below gutter level . Once upon a time The Examiner would have bee in a group of so called trustworthy credible newspapers. Instead now it’s a glorified version of The Ditch.
The headline does its job – whips up hysteria , for the vast majority they’ll see & believe Ireland is killing everyone that goes on the road and feeds into a media narrative that will have Joe Duffy and already the vast majority of responses to this headline screaming hysterical uniformed clap trap…
Meanwhile the few that will actually read the report will see “The rate in Ireland last year was 34 deaths per million population — up from 32 in 2024 — but still below the EU average of 42 last year. It was the joint 6th lowest rate in 2025 together with Germany.”
*6th lowest in EU27* !!!! 6th! For the hysteria junkies I hate to tell you that means 21 other nations are far worse and we are well below EU average…
But hey Examiner don’t let the clicks stand in the way of the facts…..😖
(And spare me the pious ‘one road death is one too many’, it’s the real world ,millions of journeys and millions of cars)
Actual-Leadership413 on
Phone use and drugs
Kunjunk on
Why does nobody question this shitty reporting: the population has increased dramatically as have the total kilometers driven. Measuring the absolute change in deaths alone is data-illiteracy or clickbait.
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I think it’s a temporary rise.
So much technology like driver assist and self driving that’s becoming standard.
I expect road deaths will drop below 100 ina few years.
The general standard of driving has seriously deteriorated since COVID, along with the lack of enforcement.
Increased traffic is also contributing to this rise.
„The rate in Ireland last year was 34 deaths per million population — up from 32 in 2024 — but still below the EU average of 42 last year.“
So we need to make life even more miserable and place the population under ever greater surveillance to reduce car accidents. At some point, taking more freedoms from the masses makes life too burdensome to bother with.
While I do agree that the standard of driving has become worse in the past few years, an increase in deaths from 32 to 34 really is not statistically significant enough to warrant an article with such a title…
Always trying to make it sound like driving in Ireland is some mad max experience. We have the safest roads in Europe outside of scandanavia.
Not surprising considering the amount of cunts texting while driving
Need more WFH
The last few years have been a downward spiral as far as patience, courtesy and skill behind the wheel. Putting out speed vans to catch people who’ve crept over the limit on good roads is not fixing the pig ignorant, aggressive, tail gating, impatient arseholes who are actually really dangerous.
You are more likely to be hit by lightning than get stopped by the Gardai
Bullshit headline our 7% rise is still lower than the European average. So them trending towards us means they are trending down to our level of safety we aren’t getting worse than them.
Its like you lots are fucking gold fish
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0731/1526401-garda-crowe-report/
The only acceptable number is zero
Would it be fair to say that our population is growing, but some of the growth is made up of inward migration, so some of the new population is people who are old enough to drive, so they go straight out on the roads.
More so than an population increase brought on by an increased birth rate, when you’d have to wait 17years for the increase to get drivers licences?
So number of new drivers every year is actually more than what the population increase might lead you to believe?
Or am I talking absolute boll*cks?
We’ve had a 56% fairly steady increase in cars on the road since 2005 it’s a natural consequence and honestly impressive the number isn’t higher all things considered.
Cars accelerate far quicker now than they did 10/20 years ago, I often wonder is this a factor
another pearl clutching headline misrepresenting Ireland’s extremely safe roads
Th standard of journalism in Ireland today is below gutter level . Once upon a time The Examiner would have bee in a group of so called trustworthy credible newspapers. Instead now it’s a glorified version of The Ditch.
The headline does its job – whips up hysteria , for the vast majority they’ll see & believe Ireland is killing everyone that goes on the road and feeds into a media narrative that will have Joe Duffy and already the vast majority of responses to this headline screaming hysterical uniformed clap trap…
Meanwhile the few that will actually read the report will see “The rate in Ireland last year was 34 deaths per million population — up from 32 in 2024 — but still below the EU average of 42 last year. It was the joint 6th lowest rate in 2025 together with Germany.”
*6th lowest in EU27* !!!! 6th! For the hysteria junkies I hate to tell you that means 21 other nations are far worse and we are well below EU average…
But hey Examiner don’t let the clicks stand in the way of the facts…..😖
(And spare me the pious ‘one road death is one too many’, it’s the real world ,millions of journeys and millions of cars)
Phone use and drugs
Why does nobody question this shitty reporting: the population has increased dramatically as have the total kilometers driven. Measuring the absolute change in deaths alone is data-illiteracy or clickbait.