Poll: Do you think the drink-driving limit should be reduced?
A proposed plan would see one small alcoholic drink place a driver over the limit.
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A proposed plan would see one small alcoholic drink place a driver over the limit.
Meanwhile, just over half of people want drink driving alcohol limits to remain unchanged.
This was the first ever checkpoint on the M50.
Meanwhile, the Road Safety Authority is looking into establishing a public database of disqualified drivers.
Minister Shane Ross has described 2016 as a “disastrous year” for road safety.
Meanwhile, a Fine Gael MEP has called for breathalysers to be installed in the cars of repeat offenders.
The Road Safety Authority and An Garda Síochana are urging people not to drink and drive this weekend.
Gardaí have also arrested a number of drink drivers.
Gardaí say getting behind the wheel after a night of drinking remains a big problem.
The figure is an increase of over a third (34%) on the number for this time last year.
A number of new measures about drug driving, written-off vehicles and uninsured drivers have been given the green light.
Christmas trees and presents – gardaí have all sorts of advice at this time of the year.
Drink drivers involved in fatal crashes will not be permitted to drive while they are awaiting trial.
Two people were arrested in the Thor Operation checkpoint.
The parents of Ciarán Treacy remember the worst day of their lives – as do all who attended the four-year-old’s tiny body.
Prescription medication almost as common as alcohol in road deaths, according to RSA report.
The car had no tax or insurance and gardaí found empty alcohol bottles and cans in it.
“Thank you for being responsible. Life is valuable.”
Gardaí are reminding motorists to never drink and drive.
The Irish Examiner and ICMSA poll finds that 23% admitted to drink driving in the last six months.
Between 2008 and 2012, alcohol was a factor in 38% of fatal collisions, claiming the lives of 286 people.
Drivers are being urged to slow down and never drink and drive.
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The Straffan man pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm.
A total of 87 people have died on the roads so far this year, 10 more than in 2015.
The Road Safety Authority is warning that “almost half of pedestrians killed on our roads have consumed alcohol”.
The footage shows a six-year-old boy picking some sweets when a car smashes through the front window.
Officers are testing drivers across the country.
The RSA has said people automatically vilify drivers when drunk pedestrians are often the causes of fatal collisions.
There were 983 fatal collisions on Irish roads between 2008 and 2012.
Kris Caudilla is serving 15 years in prison after he slammed into a car and killed a police officer in 2010.
The singer crashed her Ferrari in London last September.
If convicted of drink driving, the singer could be banned for driving for up to a year.
The driver was arrested on suspicion of drug driving.
Christina Donnelly has been campaigning for stronger road safety laws and sentencing since the death of her son and his friend in 2009.
He added that people are surviving accidents now because cars are improving.
Claire Hewitt was struck by a car close to her Clonsilla home.
The planning officer for Dublin city and country wanted the one mile restriction between pubs abolished in favour of half mile limits.
During the sentencing phase of Ethan Couch’s trial, a defence expert argued that Couch’s wealthy parents coddled him into a sense of irresponsibility — a condition the expert termed “affluenza”.