Category Archives: Bad Driving

Road Safety entering the Secondary School Curriculum

April 29, 2008 – 1:16 pm

According to RTÉ News, this morning: A new Road Safety Programme targeted at Transition Year students was launched today. The new programme, sponsored by Minister for Education Mary Hanafin (pictured, right) and Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey, will be available for schools from this coming September. It is currently being piloted in some 50 schools. [...]

By niallok | Also posted in Children, Government, Learner Drivers | Comments (2)

Slow Driving!

April 23, 2008 – 10:28 am

Hi all. Have been on this site a lot since it opened but have only just registered!! I can’t believe this moron— slow driving is what kills on the road. What percentage of accidents is caused by people trying to go about their daily business, but end up passing because some person is dilly dallying [...]

By C22 | Also posted in Speed Limit | Comments (9)

Dangerous Taxi driver- how to report

April 20, 2008 – 3:07 pm

was driving my daughter and her friends home last night when a Taxi came up fast behind me. I was traveling at 50KPH. He stayed so close to me that at times I could not see his lights. I intentionally slowed down for two reasons; 1. I won’t be bullied into driving over the speed [...]

By PaddyThai | Also posted in Overtaking, Taxi | Comments (18)

Feeling good about reporting somebody … must do it again!

April 16, 2008 – 12:01 am

I was on the M1 this morning approaching the Dundalk exit going north when I witnessed another DKIT (Dundalk Institute of Technology) Hot hatchback screaming up in the outside lane all over the back of another driver who was overtaking me at the time. I was under cruise control at 120 on the inside lane. [...]

By senna | Also posted in Boy racer, Motorway, Overtaking, Speed Limit | Comments (2)

Thank you, Radio Kerry

April 10, 2008 – 10:02 am

Thank you to Deirdre Walsh of Radio Kerry’s “Kerry Today” programme who spoke to Niall O’Keeffe of ShiteDrivers.com this morning from 9.30am. They spoke about various aspects of the site and bad driving with particular reference to Kerry drivers – speed limits being too high on bad roads, elderly farmers on their tractors, bad parking, [...]

By ShiteDrivers.com | Also posted in Children, Elderly Drivers, Media, Parking, ShiteDrivers website, Speed Limit, Yellow box | Comments (0)