Road Safety Authority

Minister says rise in road deaths a ‘grim reality’ given last year’s figure was considered an unwelcome spike

Driver killed after car crashed into parked vehicle in Arklow

New Road Traffic Measures Bill 2023 goes to Cabinet on Tuesday and will see motorists who speed on bank holidays face higher fines

Proposal to be included in road safety legislation already introduced in other jurisdictions

Child cyclists and pedestrians make up two-thirds of road fatalities, research from the Road Safety Authority shows

RSA data highlights particularly significant discrepancy in number of cyclist injuries

Some motorists have been on the road for almost 30 years despite never holding a full licence

Fianna Fáil’s James O’Connor says some people are reporting a wait time of up to five months

Alcohol Ignition Interlock detects the level on the driver’s breath and immobilises the vehicle

Oireachtas Committee on Transport to be told that NCT delays should be cleared by the end of this year

Expert group concludes road divisions should separate cars from cyclists and pedestrians where possible

Campaign centres on the story of Mary Ward, who died in Birr in 1869 and was the first person in the world to be recorded as killed by a motor vehicle

Minister for Education Norma Foley says awareness raising in schools could curb ‘worrying trend’ in deaths

Road safety group calls for more enforcement now to tackle issues on roads

Significant reductions, including drop from 80km/h to 60km/h on rural roads, to be brought before Cabinet

Even before the recent tragedies involving multiple fatalities, the rate of road deaths was the highest in six years. Proposals to cut speed limits sharply are expected to go to the Cabinet this month

Staging Co Laois festival from August 16th to 18th next year puts it ‘in the middle of harvest season’, says Irish Farmers’ Association

In the News podcast with Bernice Harrison

Thirty young people between 16 and 25 have died on roads to end of August this year

One learner driver complained they were shouted at after cutting out three times during driving test

Galway, Mayo and Cork account for almost a third of road fatalities over this period

Fatalities on Irish roads have plateaued over the last decade to an average of 159 a year but serious injuries have risen 180 per cent

Current data may even underestimate true picture

‘We were just a family who left our house one day to go to a birthday party’

Life-long grief the outcome for bereft family after fifteen-year-old boy’s road death two miles from family home

Assistant Garda commissioner Paula Hillman says the force will be monitoring speeds and mobile phone-use by motorists over the weekend

Hit-and-run victim Valerie McAllorum Ryan calls for changes to children’s sentencing laws after life-changing incident

No matter what the speed, or the result, the impact on flesh and bone will be invariably worse than on metal and glass.

‘It’s very much a midweek phenomenon [with] 62 per cent of cyclists’ injuries occurring early to midweek’, says Road Safety Authority

Chief Superintendent Jane Humphries of the Garda National Roads Policing Bureau said there is an increased risk of a collision on the road on bank holiday weekends

Message sent to all mobile phones across North and Britain on Sunday between 3pm and 4pm

Garda speed traps and Go Safe speed-detection vans are expected on all main roads from 7am on Friday

Funerals details announced for Lukas Joyce and Kirsty Bohan as specialist gardaí plan to speak to other boy and girl who survived crash

Cases of drink- or drug-driving traditionally peak on Sunday of Easter weekend

No road deaths across bank holiday period, but vehicles caught travelling as fast as 181km/h by Garda checks

Dublin city centre off-licenses will stay shut until 4pm

72 were arrested for drink driving and 33 arrested for drug driving over St Patrick’s weekend last year

Road safety group Parc seeking changes to ‘ridiculous’ system of posting licences to Cork

National Car Testing Service operator Applus must offer free tests to customers waiting more than 28 days with certain criteria but it determined none were due for last three months of 2022

Coroner recommends that driving instructors check learners’ helmets at each stage of training course