Motorist caught driving at two and half times the speed limit in Limerick
A MOTORIST was clocked driving at two and a half times the speed limit in Limerick on Saturday as part of gardai's bank holiday weekend road safety operations.
GoSafe operators checked 66,629 vehicles for speed and detected 344 vehicles speeding. One of the detections revealed by gardai is a driver caught travelling at 121kms in a 50 km zone Limerick. The exact location was not disclosed.
An Garda Síochána is implementing a bank holiday roads enforcement operation this weekend.
Bank holiday weekend periods are one of the busiest periods on Irish roads, they are also one of the periods where road users are at the highest risk of being involved in a fatal or serious road traffic collision.
Up to October 27, 155 people have lost their lives in road traffic collisions on Irish roads.
1 in 4 (38) road deaths have been pedestrians to date in 2023
43 pedestrians were killed on Irish roads in 2022
This trend indicates that pedestrian fatality figures for 2023 are estimated to be their highest in 15 years.
1 in 3 (51) road deaths have been people under the age of 25, 11 were pedestrians
21 road deaths have been over the age of 70, 10 were pedestrians
155 deaths on Irish roads is 36 greater than 2022 and 43 greater than 2019
155 deaths occurred in 145 road traffic collisions
93 (2/3) of the road traffic collisions were single vehicle collisions.