Nearly ninety close calls were reported on Ireland’s national road network including one incident where a speeding car undertook an articulated lorry on a hard shoulder and knocked the wing mirror off a stationary work vehicle.
A couple of months later in neighbouring Westmeath, a supervisor spotted a wrong-way driver going on to the M5 motorway and driving 15 kilometres in the incorrect direction. A note of the incident said: “The ‘ghost driver’ was stopped and exited the motorway at . From the report, it seemed the driver was under the influence and irate. immediately alerted work crew ahead and reported to An Garda.
Staff were also threatened by a coach driver late last year when they were marking lines with the driver trying to move cones and go straight through a work site. In Dublin last year, a motorway patrol vehicle came across a homeless encampment on the M50 ring road. On investigation, it turned out that the occupants had been able to tap into power lines on a mast, which had caused electrical supply problems in the area.