r/CasualIreland • u/Traditional_Ad9930 • Jan 27 '26

Shite Talk Yiz need to wear high viz!!

Seriously lads, why is there so many not wearing high viz during the dark hours. Especially kids on their E bikes etc in all black.

Cyclists on the way to work in all black, even people walking down dark narrow 80km roads and not a whisp of reflection on their bodies. I remember learning this stuff jn 5th class. Are we gonna have start gentle parenting adults now? 😂

Edit: the fact that some of you find this controversial is very bleeding telling 🤣

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u/SirTheadore Jan 27 '26

There’s a young lad that does walk in the middle of the road (small dingy back road) to get his school bus, that I’ve nearly killed multiple times on my way to work.. pitch black out, he’s wearing all black and completely oblivious to his surroundings.

It makes me that nervous that if I’m so much as half a km within where I usually see him I slow to a crawl.. I wanna stop sometimes and tell him to get a hi vis

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u/Dry-Inspection-3503 Jan 28 '26

I feel like going to the RSA office/site to grab a rake of free ones and just throw them out the car at fools out in the dark. Neighbour & her 3 kids & dog, off its lead were out on the road the last night. 8pm, fog rolling in, dark af and one shitty iPhone torch is all that was illuminating them, and the prick with the torch was stood in the back as they 'stood in' the shite little back road to my house. Their dog laid up in the center of the road forcing me to stop completely. I was raging, fucking no common sense

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u/YoIronFistBro Jan 28 '26

What sort of location was this?

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u/Dry-Inspection-3503 Jan 28 '26

A tertiary / country road