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…
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?
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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…
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?