The Road Safety Authority wants to bring an end to rubbernecking.
(RSA logo - source: @rsaireland/Instagram) The Road Safety Authority says people need to stop rubbernecking and recording incidents on the roads.
It comes after a video went viral of a German police officer publicly shaming a driver for recording an incident on the motorway.
"Sie wollen tote Menschen sehen? Fotos machen? Schämen sollten Sie sich!" Bei einem tödlichen #Unfall auf der A6 hat die #Polizei die #Gaffer zur Rede gestellt. pic.twitter.com/EUtA8uoImh
— BR24 (@BR24) May 21, 2019
(The police officer speaks in English for most of the video).
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Moyagh Murdock from the RSA says Gardaí can also hand out on the spot fines for such behaviour:
"The powers that the German officer was using there, I'm quite sure that they have the same powers in this jurisdiction too...[Recording road accidents is] inappropriate from a human decency point of view but also from a road safety point of view. The police are there, trying to deal with a tragic accident. It is unfolding and they are trying to manage the traffic, trying to prevent further collisions as a result, and we have people there rubber-necking. They're putting themselves and the emergency services at risk."
