Close to 3,000 motorists were caught speeding at Easter as new figures prompted warnings that dangerous driving is now “off the scale”. The Road Safety Authority (RSA) fears non-compliance with road laws like speeding, mobile phone use and drink-driving has contributed to this year’s death toll of 61 already. That is 13 more than the same time last year.
Close to 3,000 motorists were caught speeding at Easter as new figures prompted warnings that dangerous driving is now “off the scale”.
A RSA survey in January found that 10 per cent of drivers admitted driving after drinking alcohol in the last year. She said: “We can only do so much. It's the Road Safety Authority who has been raising the issue since the direction of traffic has gone terribly wrong in terms of road deaths. So we're there.
Last year’s road death toll of 188 was the worst in nearly a decade and was 30 more than 2022’s 158 figure. That 30 figure is the same tally which shows 30 of the victims from last year were aged 16 to 25. Trinity College Dublin assistant psychology professor Dr Michael Gormley is an expert of male driver behaviour.
Data for 2015 to 2019 shows 37 per cent of all driver fatalities in that period recorded a positive alcohol test.
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