Coming through Portlaoise on Saturday evening, the traffic was heavy enough. Coming from O’ Moore Park direction, heading towards Carlow, there’s a small roundabout at the bottom of the hill past SuperValue. It was bumper to bumper. A jeep with two orange flashing lights on top and a 15ft trailer took the roundabout in the wrong lane and proceeded to skip ahead of approx. 20 cars by driving on the middle portion of the road until he arrived at the concrete divide, where he bullied his way in behind me. A few miles outside of Portlaoise, on a bad stretch of road (continuous white line) I was travelling behind another car at approx. 90 kmph. The jeep with the trailer (total length roughly 25-30ft) then decided to overtake us with a bend fast approaching. The top of the trailer was just about level with the front of my car when a car came around the bend coming towards us. The jeep started pulling in regardless of where I was and only for I braked hard (luckily there was no one behind me) either he would have run me of the road with the trailer or crashed head on into the oncoming car.
The infuriating thing is, besides the fact that he could have killed someone, that I arrived into Carlow approx. 30 seconds after he did, where he proceeded to take every roundabout in the wrong lane on his way out the Wexford road. I have his reg. but there isn’t anything the Gardai can do about it now.
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Ring Traffic Watch: 1890 20 58 05, they take all the details and pass them onto the guards, then they keep it on file and if (which i kinda think from the description of the events there will be) there are more reports of this vehicle driving dangerously and erratically they guards are obliged to pay this person a little visit!!! and before anyone gets on their high horse this actually does work, i've had to report people for dangerous driving and the guards contacted me to tell me that action had been taken.
Just give it a go anyway!!!
You should report him anyway! He'll pick up a caution for that many infringements, especially the overtaking incident……
Ring Traffic Watch: 1890 20 58 05….they take all the details from you and pass them onto the gardai who keep these details on record and then if this person is reported again for dangerous driving they'll be all like "well this isnt the 1st time youve been reported" yadda yadda yadda!!!they gardai really do follow up on this so its worth giving it a shot!!!
that is appalling..are you sure the gardai cant do anything about it?
Can't or won't?
Hmmm. Orange flashing lights on top. No point in calling the gardai . . . there is a different law for those "*@*kers
RonBurgundy
If you have the reg, and the location and time, and you want to go to the bother of going to Court, I'd suggest you contact the Guards.
Ron,
Why cant the gardai do anything about it now ? Have you spoken to them ?
I have a few friends who are Gardai and I've asked them if there is anything I can do about it. They all say that unless I can get someone else who witnessed this and backs up my story it'd be my word against his without any evidence or proof and that he'd more than likely get away scot free.