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one of the busiest commuter routes in the country is the pearse to dundalk and back route.
I never get a seat.
i either sit on the floor or stand immobile held vertical purely by the crush of other people standing with me.
Ive often wondered the consequences of a derailment in one of these rush hour tins of sardines.
"He is an enemy officer taken in battle and entitled to fair treatment."
"No, sir. He's a sergeant, and they don't deserve no respect at all, sir. I should know. They're cunning and artful, if they're any good. I wouldn't mind if he was an officer, sir. But sergeants are clever."
Are you saying here that the BA has plenty of fatal RTAs???
Some how I doubt they are outside normal stats.
although it does not differentiate between on and off duty - the stats are indeed outside normal stats:
Originally posted by MOD
[in 2011] 37 military personnel were killed in on and off duty road traffic incidents. The statistics show that Armed Services personnel are twice as likely to be killed in a road traffic incident as their civilian counterparts.
Considering Ireland is supposed to have one of the worst driving records in europe but the DF is safer than the civvies.
We are often told the the UK is so much better than us and we should follow the UKs lead.
This looks like it is you that should be following us.
Is it poor equipment or a poor standard of driver?
what's amazing?
we probably have a higher ratio of vehicles and cover a lot more miles.
all of our soldiers are trained to drive after basic training and obtain full civvie driving licences (obviously with some exceptions) and military driving permits, so we have a much higher ratio of drivers both on and off duty too.
Considering Ireland is supposed to have one of the worst driving records in europe but the DF is safer than the civvies.
We are often told the the UK is so much better than us and we should follow the UKs lead.
This looks like it is you that should be following us.
Is it poor equipment or a poor standard of driver?
comparing peas with pineapples...
"He is an enemy officer taken in battle and entitled to fair treatment."
"No, sir. He's a sergeant, and they don't deserve no respect at all, sir. I should know. They're cunning and artful, if they're any good. I wouldn't mind if he was an officer, sir. But sergeants are clever."
comparisons are made per distance traveled, distance travelable, hours driven or per 100 population.
Ireland is said to score poorly.
green jacket stats level the playing field. the article you link to tells of the need to reduce road collisions through safer driving. my reading of the article is the MoD recognises they have a problem and they don't think its with equipment.
"Let us be clear about three facts. First, all battles and all wars are won in the end by the infantryman. Secondly, the infantryman always bears the brunt. His casualties are heavier, he suffers greater extremes of discomfort and fatigue than the other arms. Thirdly, the art of the infantryman is less stereotyped and far harder to acquire in modern war than that of any other arm." ------- Field Marshall Wavell, April 1945.
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