On Wednesday afternoon I drove to Dublin and came back yesterday afternoon. In that 24 hour period here are some absolute pants issues I saw:
1) On the Motorway between Portlaoise and Dublin I saw a lorry overtaking another. The overtaking driver was on his mobile.
2) Approaching the Crumlin roundabout from the long-mile road, a lady in a SUV (those Merc jeepy things) was driving and texting.
3) A car yesterday went the wrong way around the Cashel roundabout and was about to go up the Cashel by-pass on the wrong side of the dual carriageway. Luckily two cars coming down the road blocked them but I’m not sure what happened then.
4) As I was taking a back road in Cork home between Glanmire and Glounthaune, a truck came along the road over on my side. I had to brake to a stop and then he just took down the road behind me without indicating.
5) A rubbish truck and another lorry overtaking a lorry. It took them over 2 miles to do this and slowing down both motorway lanes to under 80KM.
6) A car sat in the overtaking lane on the road after Kilbeheny ant didn’t allow anyone to overtake them even though they were driving well under the speed limit.
There were numerous other people on mobiles and I find this unbelieveable and very stupid.