Foreign drivers on Irish roads

[dancinpants]

the system in the USA with drivers ed classes in school is a great idea.

Yeah, its a great idea in theory - but it doesn't seem to work either. I live in California, and theres as many wee d!ckheads speedin' around here as at home. Oh and the problem of drink driving is probably worse over here - purely because public transport is crap.

Oh, and the quality of the roads over here where I am - are worse than at home.

And before any other exiles in America contradict me, I speaking about SoCal in particular.

The bad driving, and road safety isn't just an Irish phenomenon lads.

[Soko]

Yeah, its a great idea in theory - but it doesn't seem to work either. I live in California, and theres as many wee d!ckheads speedin' around here as at home. Oh and the problem of drink driving is probably worse over here - purely because public transport is crap.

Oh, and the quality of the roads over here where I am - are worse than at home.

And before any other exiles in America contradict me, I speaking about SoCal in particular.

The bad driving, and road safety isn't just an Irish phenomenon lads.

Drink driving probably worse in America? Its 1000 times worse. A Friday night and everyone has no problem going drinking at home, driving the car into the city and driving home with maybe a few pit stops on the way. Its so far gone that you'll never fix it in the US.

[Tired&Emotional]

Watching the new the other day about the amount of road deaths in January and of the 39 deaths I think we counted at least 9 who were Eastern European. Hardly a coincidence now that nearly 25% of the people killed on the roads were foreign nationals. I thought that was what this thread was going to be about anyway, we've had British cars here for decades. This is a new phenomenom and even government figures have pointed out its dangers.

I was a bit slow to join in on this one, for fear of xenophobic undertones but i did quietly notice that statistic myself and it is a point worth mentioning especially in light of the fact that our neighbours from NI and/or UK have been driving here for years - and though i'm not sure, I wouldn't think that the percentage of deaths of NI/UK citizens isn't as high as this...