After a long day of Christmas shopping you’re heading home with presents piled high in the car. The rain is streaming down, the wind is blowing, and you’d rather be in sitting beside a nice warm fire. But suddenly your car starts acting up. The battery light is flashing – disaster has well and truly [...]
Posts Tagged ‘road safe’
Back to school- How to keep your kids safe in the car
Summer is officially over – not that it was much of a summer! And for many parents it’s time to start back out on the road as an unpaid chauffeur doing the school run.
Keeping your children safe in the car is a top priority for every parent. But even if you think you’re doing everything [...]
How to reduce the stress of your driving test
Leaving Cert results, CAO offers, plans for the next few years of your life…for thousands of students all over Ireland it’s been a nervous, stressful couple of weeks.
As you take your first steps in the ‘real world’ outside of school, getting your full drivers licence may well be the next thing on your To Do [...]
Google’s Self Driving car given the green light- VIDEO
The future of motoring could be nearer than we think – and it’s a future likely to include self-driving cars!
In June of this year the state of Nevada paved the way for the introduction of self-driving vehicles to the U.S. when it passed a new bill that would create guidelines for the safe operation of automated self-driving [...]
How to overtake a cyclist safely- VIDEO
The Tour de France has had its fair share of crashes so far this year. But none of these were more shocking than the incident where a TV car swerved into two cyclists – Juan Antonio Flecha and Johnny Hoogerland – flipping them into the air and straight into a barbed wire fence. The accident [...]
The wrong approach when it comes to roundabouts
I’m not sure the perfect driver exists. But although we all make the occasional driving error, a recent survey has revealed frightening levels of rule-breaking on Irish roads.
The roadside survey, carried out by Continental Tyres, looked at motorist behaviour at some of Ireland’s busiest roundabouts. It found that drivers often ignore the rules of the [...]
Summer Rain – a driver’s pain
It’s that time of the year we all love – summertime! But the Irish summer is a temperamental, unpredictable creature. We might get two, even three glorious weeks of hot, sunny weather, but then, just as we’re getting used to wandering around in shorts and t-shirts and starting to believe that it could actually last [...]
Driving to a different beat
We’re all into different types of music – you might enjoy rocking away on your trusty old air guitar to a bit of AC/DC, while I might prefer singing along to Jedward’s latest musical ‘creation’. I said might. Maybe you’re even that rarest of creatures – an Enya fan. But what you probably didn’t realise [...]
Irish Motorway Madness
It sounds like something you’d only see in an action movie – a motorist speeding headlong into oncoming traffic on a busy motorway. But apparently this crazy sight isn’t as rare as you’d think.
In fact, according to Road Safety Authority chief executive Noel Brett, high-risk incidents of motorists driving the wrong direction down motorways have [...]
Drivers ‘tailgating’ on M50 targeted
Over 160 motorists have been caught and penalised for ‘tailgating’ offences on the M50.
In many of these cases motorists were apparently trying to avoid paying the M50 toll by tailgating HGVs – driving right up behind them, to within inches of their bumper – in a foolish attempt to hide their licence plates from the [...]