Foreign Nationals Driving
I would agree with the comment in relation to the tax and insurance details on the non national cars. What I have noticed about them driving is that the LT/LV types with the blacked out windows usually speed with no regard for anybody wheras the African ones usually travel about 2 miles an hour.
A Latvian type vehicle was constantly parked outside my house but on the roadway. However, I noticed it was not taxed and did not carry an insurance disc. I knocked in and told them to move it, that it was illegally parked. They didn't want to move it, but I once I mentioned that I would be involving the Gardai if it was there again, it promptly disappeared. I am sure they think I am a nark for complaining, but I dont really care.
A girl in work this week commented how a house on her road in Navan was rented to two polish guys who work in a nearby garden centre and bring home the trucks from work. She commented on the speeds that both were doing in a housing estate and said she would call in at the weekend and have a word. However, about two days later she noticed that they had ploughed into a girl in a renault clio going to work within the estate. They were obviously insured as they were driving garden centre vehicles.
Perhaps though, its not an issue about the nationality that speeds but rather that they are all appear to be young males in their twenties. It was a Latvian vehicle that caused the death of the young woman in the horrible crash on the M50 earlier this year when their car crossed the central verge having been spotted driving erratically at speeds of over 100mph driven by a young male.
I would be most annoyed if I thought the Gardai purposely chose to ignore these people and let them off with no insurance or tax.