{"id":5686,"date":"2011-04-13T10:38:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T10:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5686"},"modified":"2011-04-13T10:38:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T10:38:16","slug":"1-in-5-motorway-deaths-is-pedestrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5686","title":{"rendered":"1 in 5 Motorway Deaths is Pedestrian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another Irish story, this time in the Independent. Apparently, 1 in 5 of all deaths on Ireland’s motorways is a pedestrian<\/a>. Irish Trucker also reports the same story.<\/p>\n

It’s another shocking statistic which perhaps derives from Ireland’s previously lax road laws.<\/p>\n

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RSA chief executive Noel Brett said pedestrians were a “massive risk” on motorways and not only were they a danger to themselves, they were putting other road users in danger. <\/p>\n

“The message is clear: never ever walk on a motorway,” he said. “Pedestrians are at a massive risk on a motorway — you’re taking your life in your hands and putting other road users in danger, too. <\/p>\n

“Likewise, drivers who stop on a motorway can cause collisions involving their own car and potentially many others. It’s unsafe and it’s an offence.” <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Again, it is frightening that people can have such a blas\u00e9 attitude. You can only hope that the country’s attempts to modernise it’s driving systems takes hold quickly, but you can’t help think that the present generation will always be a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another Irish story, this time in the Independent. Apparently, 1 in 5 of all deaths on Ireland’s motorways is a pedestrian. Irish Trucker also reports the same story. It’s another shocking statistic which perhaps derives from Ireland’s previously lax road laws. RSA chief executive Noel Brett said pedestrians were a “massive risk” on motorways and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-world-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}