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Irish road safety information — drink driving law, collision stats, RSA campaigns, and practical guidance for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians.
Every morning at 8:50am, a near-miss happens outside a school somewhere in Ireland. Nobody files a report. Nobody calls it a hazard. The driver moves on, the child moves on, and tomorrow it happens again. The school...
A road milling machine weighs up to 30 tonnes, spins a drum studded with tungsten carbide teeth, and can devour asphalt at a metre per second. A worker caught in its path does not get a second chance. What Happened The...
A worker gets injured loading equipment into a van at a client site. The vehicle is taxed and insured. The driver has a full licence. The employer assumes everything is fine. The civil claim lands anyway, and the...
A driver ignores fatigue warnings and pushes on through the night. A site manager ignores a near-miss report and signs off the job anyway. The outcomes are different. The decision-making failure is identical. This is...
Every year, people die on Irish roads while walking or cycling. Not because the roads are uniquely treacherous. Because the systems built around them treat cars as the default and everyone else as an afterthought. That...
A worker reaches under a suspended load to free a snagged strap. The load shifts. That is how amputations happen, and that is how they keep happening. Ireland's logistics and freight sector has a loading problem that...
The camera was working. The driver was experienced. The pedestrian was dead. That sequence appears in prosecution after prosecution, and it should end the conversation about technology being the answer. It doesn't, of...
Distracted Driving in Ireland: The Hidden Epidemic That's Deadlier Than Speed One second of inattention at 100km/h covers 28 metres of road. A lot can go wrong in 28 metres. Speed gets the headlines. Speed cameras,...
The Mixed Message Problem The RSA's campaign slogan is "Never Ever Drink and Drive." Clear enough. Except the law says you can have some alcohol and still legally drive. The limit in the Republic of Ireland is...
Two Pints and a Set of Car Keys Around 350 people in Ireland are caught driving under the influence every single week. The RSA's own figures say so. That's just the ones who get caught. The real number is higher. You...
The Pub Wisdom That Won't Die Everyone's an expert on drink driving after a few pints. "Sure, one is fine." "I'm a better driver with a buzz." "The morning after is grand." These aren't...