Category Archives: Overtaking

What’s wrong with a little patience?

November 26, 2007 – 10:55 am

I just don’t get it! Why is it all rush, rush, rush? Why push other drivers when there’s need to? This morning when I was leaving my daughter to school we had to go up one of the back roads. There is a lot of building work going on here & there was a Volvo [...]

By GalwayNutter | Also posted in Bad Driving | Comments (14)

Foreign Flashers

November 25, 2007 – 10:21 pm

i know when some people read this they just might think i’m biased towards foreign drivers but today i was driving along the M50 when all of a sudden these 2 foreign cars with plates that read [LT] where we have [IRL] moved close behind me i was doing the limit of 120km per hour [...]

By ConcernedDriver | Also posted in Bad Driving, Foreign Drivers, Motorway | Comments (13)

Overtaking, Cork style

November 11, 2007 – 2:00 pm

Richard from Cork sent in this picture, taken on the Macroom to Cork road just a week ago. Thanks Richard, buy why not sign up and post some articles yourself? [ Click for larger image ] The 2 cars overtaking have dangerously and illegally crossed double white lines and are facing on-coming traffic at speed [...]

By niallok | Also posted in Bad Driving, Crash | Comments (12)

Bus Lanes – Limerick

November 9, 2007 – 6:31 pm

Hello, I have a real problem with bus / taxi lanes. Recently Limerick decided to join the elite by putting in such things as bus lanes, cycle lanes and new taxi lanes(not without problems). My gripes are so far: The cycle lane outside the regional hospital is a cycle lane, not an extended car park [...]

By Bertie | Also posted in Bad Driving | Comments (9)

A letter to the Road Safety Authority

October 26, 2007 – 12:53 pm

Sir, Although I welcome this long awaited initiative by the Road safety Authority in attempting to reduce the carnage we see on our road each year,I cannot help but wonder at the thinking that went into calling an immediate halt to the driving by drivers holding a provisional driving licence while unaccompanied. It once again [...]

By jim travers | Also posted in Bad Driving, Learner Drivers | Comments (32)