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Alcohol may have been a factor in more than 1,000 fatal crashes on Irish roads between 1999 and 2008, a meeting on road safety was told today.

Some 30 road safety experts from the EU joined Irish delegates at a European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) lecture, entitled "Alcohol and Driving", which was hosted by the Road Safety Authority, in Dublin Castle.