This is addressing the elephant in the room in a number of recent fatal car accidents: https://www.thejournal.ie/seatbelt-silencers-ireland-6367290-May2024/ - Mick's Garage specifically getting called out here. If you're doing less than Amazon for buyer safety, you need to take a look at yourself.
I think that a problem in Ireland is that we're culturally very sensitive around death, so we treat fatal accidents as 'something that happened somehow'. And I think it would be better if we didn't have that and directly addressed some of these behaviours that get people killed.
It seems to me that maybe The Journal got wind of something (the seatbelt alarm disabler) which hasn't been publicly addressed yet (and it's another reason to disband the RSA, if that's the case), and so they're approaching it in this way.
@kevinteljeur at least 28% of fatalities in cars were not wearing seatbelts. What? I just put it on automatically when I get into a car. Who are these stupid people? It's very hard to have any sympathy for someone who dies if they didn't wear something that would have saved them
@ronanmcd There have been a few fatal accidents over the past year where, although we couldn't talk about it, it was clear that this may have been a factor. The collisions were bad but the passengers were all killed, young people. And an unspoken truth was that it was likely that some or all were not wearing seatbelts. And if that had been spoken about front and centre, maybe more lives would have been saved. Thanks, RSA.
@ronanmcd Again, I don't know what the real problem is. The RSA can talk about it, it could address it in some way, but they don't. The dead can't sue.
@ronanmcd I have to say, I was gobsmacked that at the funeral of that group of young people who were killed in a single-vehicle RTA recently, it was a celebration of young people driving unsafely in high-powered cars that were probably not street legal.
@ronanmcd There's that, and I get the grief, but the sensitivity crosses over past a point where they celebrate the thing that took their beloved relatives and friends away from them. It's so specific.
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