‘Shock’ mentre il secondo bambino muore sulle strade negli ultimi giorni

Its so awful these stories, and always so unnecessary for the death to have occurred. That poor little girl on her bike at the week and now this lad.

Leaving aside the tractor, but I wonder with lorries and trucks do we need to have a higher level of points penalties for ANY road traffic infringements as they SHOULD be driving safer than a regular car driver. While all too often they are the madmen on the roads.

Also perhaps some points threshhold for the companies that employ these truck drivers – that if your collective of drivers get over a certain amount of points in a certain time period then you as a company lose your ability to use your own trucks. Anecdotally, its often that the companies have put such time pressure on the drivers that they end up rushing to complete tasks.

I’m not really that shocked as I live amongst farmers and they have little regard for other road users in their working areas.

So so sad.

Ireland should create a roads police force.

Not trying to be edgy or upset anyone but in my opinion road fatalities have no place on the news. It’s just misery for miserys sake, “the whole community is devastated” “she was a 19yo model student” “he was a father of 5 kids” “they were on their way to celebrate their engagement” – none of this should be on the news. Grieving families and friends don’t need some RTE reporter traipsing around the scene for their soundbite for the news before leaving after 20mins to cover some factory closure in westmeath, that doesn’t help anyone.

If the hard hitting toad fatality story reduced future deaths, maybe – but it doesn’t, they’re accidents, and when they’re caused by shit or drunk drivers, well those drivers won’t care anyway and a news item won’t change their habits

I know you dont want to hear this, but this is incredibly rare and uncommon, despite what you may think becuase of the massive disproportionate coverage these incidents have in the media.

we should not reform all road traffic laws or introduce more punitive measures because of this. it is very sad, mournful and unwanted. But it happening doesnt discredit that weve some of the safest roads on earth and they are getting safer year over year and have been doing so solidly for about 3 decades.

We have a system where a person can get a licence returned to them after killing a child because they need it for work. Meaning a group of people who should have a much higher standard applied to their driving in reality have a much lower standard applied.

A tractor?! Ah what the fuck