Speeding driver in Leitrim the type 'gardaí are most focused on detecting'
The driver was caught travelling over 30km above the speed limit near Carrick-on-Shannon during the garda Slow Down Day operation
A driver caught speeding at over 50% in excess of the speed limit in Leitrim, is the typical driver that gardaí say they are focusing on.
The person behind the wheel was caught doing 94km/h in a 60km/h zone on the N4 Drishoge, Carrick-On-Shannon to Roscommon road during a national.
The garda Slow Down Day operation began at 7am on Thursday 7th November 2024 during which An Garda Síochána detected 689 drivers travelling in excess of the applicable speed limit.
Chief Superintendent in the Garda National Roads Policing Bureau, Jane Humphries said: "Across all our speed detection systems in place around the county, we are beginning to see some positive indications that drivers are becoming more mindful of the critical need to slow down. That said, the number of those who were detected during this National Slow Down Day do show that there are some people still intent on driving at dangerously excessive and inappropriate speed.
"These are the people that Gardaí are most focused on detecting in order to prevent fatal and serious road traffic collisions. They endanger themselves but they will also potentially kill you or I while driving at high speed.
"Research strongly demonstrates that choosing to drive 10Km/h over the speed limit, thinking that it will get you to your destination in quicker time, is a fallacy. If anything it can only save seconds from your journey so it really is not worth quite possibly losing your life over.”