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The Road Safety Authority (RSA) launched its latest anti-drug driving awareness campaign.
Drug Driving The Road Safety Authority (RSA) launched its latest anti-drug driving awareness campaign. This is their fifth campaign on the serious issue of drug-driving. The RSA are engaging in this latest campaign effort in association with An Garda Síochána and they started it on 12th April 2017. The campaign is supported by multiple agencies and was Introduced in co-operation...
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Crash for Cash and Fake Motor Insurance Claims
Ireland is well known for its ‘Compo culture’ and it has been a constant feature on the insurance map for years. The insurance industry has ramped up their campaign to counter the compensation culture and frequently ask members of the public to come forward with information if they know of someone who is faking an injury. Court cases have been...
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15 New Bike Stations Are Coming To Dublin
Such is the popularity of bike stations around Dublin many find they have to battle for a Dublin Bike at 8.30am on a weekday morning. As a result of the need, there are 15 new bicycle stations being introduced around the city. The 15-station expansion of Dublin Bikes will be focused on the Grangegorman area and is set to get...
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Washing-up liquid may take the shine off your car's paintwork
Washing-up liquid may take the shine off your car's paintwork Did you know that using washing-up liquid to clean your car could damage your paintwork and take the shine off your car. Washing-up liquid contains ammonia and bleach which, as you can imagine can break down the wax that was applied to the paintwork at the factory to protect it...
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Apple gets approval to test autonomous cars on real roads
Apple gets approval to test autonomous cars on real roads Apple has decided to get into the autonomous vehicle game and they have gotten approval to test autonomous cars on real roads. Apple has just been granted official permission in the United States to test autonomous driving technology. This adds another major entrant into the autonomous vehicle race which is...
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Tech company Baidu will put self driving cars on the road by 2020
Tech company Baidu will put self driving cars on the road by 2020 making theInternet giantthe latest tech company to enter the autonomous vehicle arena. Baidu, one of the largest Internet companies in the world is a Chinese-American web services company headquartered at the Baidu Campus in Beijing's Haidian District in China. As part of the company's Project Apollo, they...
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Nail-biting video showing the moment a person avoids getting hit by a speeding train by a split second
The shocking CCTV footage was taken at Kilbarrack Dart Station in Dublin’s northside. The footage shows the person just wandering across the track a split second before the northbound Dublin to Belfast Enterprise train, which was travelling at 140 kilometres per hour. Irish Rail has revealed this week that their trains had 32 "category 1" near-misses with people walking on...
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Diesel Drivers in the UK Could Get Up to £2,000 for Scrapping their cars
A report which was released last year showed that diesel-related air pollution could be linked to 40,000 "early deaths" each year in the United Kingdom due to air pollution. As a result of the findings and the obvious connection between diesel fuel and adverse health effects, British ministers are considering a scrappage scheme that would allow diesel drivers to get...
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Incredible Amount Of People Arrested For Drug Driving Over The Bank Holiday Weekend
The Gardaí confirmed yesterday morning that an incredible amount of people were arrested over the bank holiday weekend for drug driving. An Garda Síochána recently announced that it would be setting up dedicated drug driving checkpoints around the country. As a result of the first drug driving checkpoints, there are a lot of motorists being caught drug driving so the...
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Insurance companies crackdown on cash-for-crash scammers
Special investigation units from insurance firms are probing thousands of suspect accident claims. They are clamping down hard with cash-for-crash stings in a major ramping up of the fight against exaggerated and false claims. Thousands of suspect accidents are being reported and the Gardaí are getting involved in investigating these fraudulent claims as well. In recent times, dozens of...