Tipperary drivers could face double penalty points for speeding and phone use
RSA demands points for speeding and phone use should increase from three to six
According to a report by the Irish Times this morning, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) is is pushing for emergency legislation to double to six the number of penalty points given to drivers for speeding and mobile phone use.
The demands have come after 81 people are reported to have died on Irish roads so far this year, the worst on record in a decade. As well as that, a total of 137 motorists were arrested for intoxicated driving over the bank holiday weekend up to early on Sunday.
The RSA wants the emergency legislation to do this enacted “as a matter of priority” with any such change “supported by targeted enforcement and awareness campaigns”.
In briefing documents released to The Irish Times, the RSA recommended emergency legislation be used to accelerate previously announced plans to apply multiple penalty points as a sanction for committing multiple traffic offences.
A spokesman for the Department of Transport said “multiple penalty points for multiple offences” was “now legislated for and will be implemented in due course”.