Junior
10-08-2000, 04:59 PM
The National Safety Council yesterday called for restrictions on the times and days when young drivers can be on the roads, on their speed, as well as the introduction of tough restrictions on their first licences.
Yes lets introduce tough restrictions .. like lets not let them drive without a fully qualified driver .. oh but thats already law. I rememeber not so long ago there allegedly was a crackdown on this ... anyone hear of one prosecution, one fine, one case ever over it ?
Also it is laughable to say we (I count myself as a young driver since I'm under 25) should be restricted to certain days of the week and certain daylight hours ...yes lets be predujicial against all shift workers and anyone going anywhere on the weekend.
Starting out, they lack the ability to judge oncoming traffic and speed and should not be free to drive in the same manner as someone with 20 years' experience.
So a driver is qualified and passed the test but he is expected to behave like a 40 year old .. great why not update the phucking driving test to something mirrors real life. Not have a driving test that tests your abilities to keep both hands on the steering wheel while doing a turnabout ???
The Idea sounds good but of course.But the method in which either the Government will take it up will of course be arseways. And no doubt the NSC will fail to make the idea any clearer or it will get missed because everyone will see young and speed in the report and only act on that.
It also recommends young people getting provisional driving licences be restricted to driving at certain times, and at certain speeds, as operates in other jurisdictions such as the North, where an `R' plate restricts them to 40mph. The Safety Council also wants ``curfew driving'', whereby youthful drivers would not be able to drive at certain times of the night, or days of the week.
Yes this is a great idea, can you imagine Dublin when only provisional drivers are only allowed out ... limited to 40 mph and the frustration and annoyance it will cause ... it serves no purpose to do this. So what if you put your 'R' plates in the boot of the car .. who knows the difference ??
The number of unqualified drivers on our roads is increasing rapidly. There were 43,000 more provisional licence holders last December than in July 1998, new figures show.
Yes the government is so concerned about young drivers and provisonal licences that it is throwing resources at the Gardaí to catch speeders on main roads. Not trying to relieve the pressure on the over taxed driver insturctors and Testers.
Recently I read of a case in Dublin where a guy pretended to be a taxi driver and picked up a few people from a night club, he then crashed the car killing himself and the front seat passenger. The parents of the guy in the front-seat did want the fact that the barriers they crashed through were a factor, but no the judge decided that speed was the only factor in the death.
Narrow mindedness like this will never be changed. No one is willing to factor in anything else but speed, one has to see that right he was going to fast but if this pole was four feet further back from the edge of the road it would save someones life if they lost control of a car doing 80mph.
This narrow mindedness was and is still present with people with drug habits .. Judges and the law saw/see them as the problem not really looking at the other infulencing factors till recently. Now please do not make me out to be a madman in comapring speeders with drug addicts, I think the judical treatment and the outlook by the government is the same to speeding related deaths as it is/was to drug addicts.
The death statistics would make interesting reading if they actually set out the conditions of the road, the layout of the crash etc. Mainly because of having been in Donegal some time ago I know somew of the back roads are nothing but stonewalled lined narrow little phuckin roads, how often do you hear of deaths of people crahsing into poles etc on bad roads .... how often do you get stop by a Garda on those roads .. never.
So when I turn 25 and I have oh 14 years driving behind me, and have 8 years road experience behind me that means I'm suddenly less of a risk, just because Stats are interperted in a certain way .. what a shambolic way to be judged
Yes lets introduce tough restrictions .. like lets not let them drive without a fully qualified driver .. oh but thats already law. I rememeber not so long ago there allegedly was a crackdown on this ... anyone hear of one prosecution, one fine, one case ever over it ?
Also it is laughable to say we (I count myself as a young driver since I'm under 25) should be restricted to certain days of the week and certain daylight hours ...yes lets be predujicial against all shift workers and anyone going anywhere on the weekend.
Starting out, they lack the ability to judge oncoming traffic and speed and should not be free to drive in the same manner as someone with 20 years' experience.
So a driver is qualified and passed the test but he is expected to behave like a 40 year old .. great why not update the phucking driving test to something mirrors real life. Not have a driving test that tests your abilities to keep both hands on the steering wheel while doing a turnabout ???
The Idea sounds good but of course.But the method in which either the Government will take it up will of course be arseways. And no doubt the NSC will fail to make the idea any clearer or it will get missed because everyone will see young and speed in the report and only act on that.
It also recommends young people getting provisional driving licences be restricted to driving at certain times, and at certain speeds, as operates in other jurisdictions such as the North, where an `R' plate restricts them to 40mph. The Safety Council also wants ``curfew driving'', whereby youthful drivers would not be able to drive at certain times of the night, or days of the week.
Yes this is a great idea, can you imagine Dublin when only provisional drivers are only allowed out ... limited to 40 mph and the frustration and annoyance it will cause ... it serves no purpose to do this. So what if you put your 'R' plates in the boot of the car .. who knows the difference ??
The number of unqualified drivers on our roads is increasing rapidly. There were 43,000 more provisional licence holders last December than in July 1998, new figures show.
Yes the government is so concerned about young drivers and provisonal licences that it is throwing resources at the Gardaí to catch speeders on main roads. Not trying to relieve the pressure on the over taxed driver insturctors and Testers.
Recently I read of a case in Dublin where a guy pretended to be a taxi driver and picked up a few people from a night club, he then crashed the car killing himself and the front seat passenger. The parents of the guy in the front-seat did want the fact that the barriers they crashed through were a factor, but no the judge decided that speed was the only factor in the death.
Narrow mindedness like this will never be changed. No one is willing to factor in anything else but speed, one has to see that right he was going to fast but if this pole was four feet further back from the edge of the road it would save someones life if they lost control of a car doing 80mph.
This narrow mindedness was and is still present with people with drug habits .. Judges and the law saw/see them as the problem not really looking at the other infulencing factors till recently. Now please do not make me out to be a madman in comapring speeders with drug addicts, I think the judical treatment and the outlook by the government is the same to speeding related deaths as it is/was to drug addicts.
The death statistics would make interesting reading if they actually set out the conditions of the road, the layout of the crash etc. Mainly because of having been in Donegal some time ago I know somew of the back roads are nothing but stonewalled lined narrow little phuckin roads, how often do you hear of deaths of people crahsing into poles etc on bad roads .... how often do you get stop by a Garda on those roads .. never.
So when I turn 25 and I have oh 14 years driving behind me, and have 8 years road experience behind me that means I'm suddenly less of a risk, just because Stats are interperted in a certain way .. what a shambolic way to be judged