Gillian and Ronan Treacy said road safety and responsible driving should be taught and encouraged in schools from an early age
The parents of a four year old boy killed by a drunk driver have called for drivers education and road safety to be part of the secondary and primary school education curriculums, in order to help tackle Ireland’s annual road death scourge.
READ MORE:One in three Irish road fatalities this year were aged between 16 and 25 as campaigner calls for speed limiters “All we can do is instil a title bit of sense into him, and remind him that it’s not just about him and us, it’s about other road users, and not to bring that heartache on another family,” added Ms Treacy, who for the past six years was a former board director at the Road Safety Authority .
After presenting Mr and Mrs Treacy with the award, Sean Crotty, whose 19-year old son and ESB apprentice Oisín Crotty, from Ballynunnery, The Rower, Co Kilkenny, lost his life in a road collision in 2013, said: “I wanted to be here on behalf of Oisin to support his memory and to do what I could with getting a message out about road safety.”
The winning design from MU, including Klaudia Pasternak, Victory Omorodion, Saoirse Smith, Eamonnn Kane, and Elizabeth Imole, which will be used as part of Garda road-safety campaign, involved the image of a dice entitled, ‘Chances of you getting home safe aren’t as high as you are’, to stress the unpredictability of drug-driving.
Chief Superintendent Derek Smart, Limerick Garda Division, told those gathered: “I would ask you to focus on two people here today, Gillian and Ronan Treacy, who tomorrow will be the tenth anniversary of the loss of their son, in a road traffic collision with a drunk driver.”
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