Shitedrivers. com was set up last June by blogger Niall O'Keeffe. The site contains photos, videos and anecdotes of bad driving recorded by motorists on the country's roads. All of the content is user-generated; members of the public can register with the site for free and upload their examples of bad driving spotted around the country.

RSA chief Noel Brett said the online initiative was "a helpful website in general as it shows you the kind of stuff that's out there. . . It's brilliant to post up examples of appalling driving, but wouldn't it be great to post examples of good driving too?"

O'Keeffe told the Sunday Tribune: "I've encountered some very bad driving in my time. I'm seeing pretty poor driving every day and hitting the horn in the car every day.

So I came up with the idea from there."

The site already hosts various examples of bad driving, including a video of a joyrider in Dundalk doing a series of skids in torrential rain, and another picture taken in Christchurch, Dublin of a car's back windscreen piled high with teddy bears.

O'Keeffe claimed the site was "promoting good driving by giving examples of bad driving", citing one example of a woman who stopped in the middle of a roundabout and got out of her car because her dog had jumped out the back window.

Brett praised the site, saying: "What it highlights is the kind of behaviours that some motorists engage in. Some motorists behave in a way that places both themselves and others at risk. It highlights again for people to take responsibility for their own behaviour as road users, in particular as drivers. Some of the examples are downright dangerous."

Brett urged road users who came across bad driving to contact the Garda trafficwatch line on 1890-205805 to report it.

O'Keeffe said his ambition for the site was that it would "make people take a look at how they drive themselves".