Category Archives: Overtaking

Idiot in a Jeep

October 19, 2007 – 12:19 pm

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 [...]

By RonBurgundy | Also posted in Bad Driving, Crash, Roundabouts | Comments (9)

Northern Drivers

October 7, 2007 – 10:03 pm

Right, this is not PC. Having travelled recently on the M1 and other Northern bound roads I was amazed by some of the driving by Northern registered motorists. Cruising along at around 120 KPH I was constantly left sitting by our Northern cousins roaring past. Now I have nothing against a bit of speed now [...]

By poleman | Also posted in Bad Driving, Foreign Drivers, Motorway | Comments (24)

Medians disasters in the making

October 7, 2007 – 12:37 am

Now I know medians are a necessity on some road, well possibly a little more than just some road, but have you noticed the fad that comes with a sudden discovery in the use of medians? Like the Tamagotche (I hope i spelled this right) virtual pets, once the idea of the median catches on, [...]

By jim travers | Also posted in Bad Driving, Roundabouts | Comments (3)

Overtaking on the left hand side

September 24, 2007 – 5:09 pm

i was the passenger in a van today driving thru the nenagh bypass from dublin to limerick. At the moment there are cones on the road as they are widening the road. So we were in our lane when all of a sudden out of the blue this 07 car decides to overtake us on [...]

By ConcernedDriver | Also posted in Bad Driving | Comments (2)

Why are Irish drivers so bad?

September 23, 2007 – 4:12 pm

Irish drivers have to be amongst the worst in the world. The number of crazy things I’ve seen on Irish roads never ceases to amaze me. I’ve seen people deliberately drive round a roundabout the wrong way, crazy tailgating and overtaking, lorry drivers just don’t give a damn about other road users, people drive through [...]

By Rubbish Irish Drivers | Also posted in Bad Driving, Roundabouts | Comments (36)