Traffic Bureau
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Supt David Taylor’s Garda future under review after tribunal
- Crime & Law
- October 13, 2018
The future of Supt David Taylor in the Garda is being considered by senior management as part of the fallout from the Disclosures Tribunal report. Da(...)

Number in Garda’s Road Policing Unit still far off previous high
- Crime & Law
- July 6, 2018, 20:47
The strength of the Garda’s Roads Policing Unit will pass 700 by the end of the year, still some way off its previous highest levels. Projections fro(...)

Garda Traffic Corps set to be replaced by unit with wider remit
- Crime & Law
- April 4, 2017, 14:46
Sweeping changes are being considered which would effectively abolish the Garda Traffic Corps in its current form. The plans are under consideration (...)

Garda highlights driver caught at ‘outrageous’ 216km/h
- Crime & Law
- November 3, 2016, 01:00
Ireland has a problem with speeding, according to a garda who described the 216km/h speed which a driver was caught travelling at as “outrageous”. G(...)

Uninsured driver caught speeding at 216km on N7
- Crime & Law
- November 2, 2016, 14:49
An uninsured driver has been caught speeding at 216 km/h on the N7 on Wednesday. Gardaí said the speed limit for the road where the driver was dete(...)

Road deaths should not be called ‘accidents,’ Donegal doctor says
- Irish News
- September 21, 2016, 09:04
Road deaths should not be called ‘accidents’ but referred to as driver behaviour incidents, a consultant in emergency medicine has said. Dr Gerry Lan(...)

Drink driving sees shift back to ‘bad old days’, says Garda
- Crime & Law
- August 3, 2016, 09:33
There has been a shift “back to the bad old days” when it comes to drink driving and speeding among young people in particular according to Chief Supt(...)

Road deaths in 2015 are second lowest in over half century
- Irish News
- January 1, 2016, 14:49
Some 165 people died on the State’s roads in 2015 - the second lowest number of road deaths since records began in 1959. Provisional figures from th(...)

Hundreds caught speeding during 24-hour garda clampdown
- Crime & Law
- August 29, 2015, 11:38
A Garda operation to encourage motorists to slow down caught 451 drivers breaking the speed limit over a 24 hour period today and yesterday. Some offe(...)

Garda clampdown finds few Irish drivers break speed limits
- Crime & Law
- August 28, 2015, 23:00
A 24-hour Garda Síochána clampdown on speeding has found comparatively few motorists breaking speed limits. Operation Slow Down, designed to raise a(...)