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Slow down, save lives: Gardaí tackle speed on roads
Operation Slow Down kicked off at 7 o’clock this morning.
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Operation Slow Down kicked off at 7 o’clock this morning.
There have been four more fatalities on Irish roads than at this time last year, so Gardaí are trying to get drivers to reduce their speed.
The man was killed following the collision on the M8 today.
The 22-year-old was driving a tractor in county Meath when the accident happened.
Both the Transport Minister and the Gardaí have issued appeals to motorists to stay safe on the roads this weekend.
During the first weekend of June last year, one person was killed and 12 people seriously injured on Irish roads.
A man and a woman were pronounced dead at the scene near Lacken.
More than a dozen others were injured after the bus drove through barricades and plunged into a canal.
Three others are still in hospital following the accident just after midnight.
The 48-year-old man was struck by a car while walking on the main road at Reaghstown.
Four separate road accidents in Wexford, Longford and Cork have claimed the lives of four men.
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The woman in her 60s died at lunchtime and a second woman is in hospital – she is the second road fatality of 2012.
The number of road deaths in Ireland fell below 200 for the first time since road deaths began being recorded in 1959. There were 26 fewer fatalities in 2011 compared to 2009, latest figures from the Road Safety Authority show.
The Minister for Transport said the figures mean Ireland’s roads are among the safest in Europe.
Police said they had earlier seen a vehicle being driven dangerously in Claudy, Co Derry.
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The crash happened in foggy conditions on the A31 near the town of Gronau.
The 25-year-old was fatally injured after the car he was driving hit a bridge.
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One fifth of young male drivers have admitted to racing on the roads, with those aged between 17 and 24 being five times more likely to be killed, the Road Safety Authority has reported.
A 19-year-old driver and his 18-year-old female passenger were fatally injured in the two-car collision.
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A married couple in their sixties are killed, and three others hospitalised, after the crash outside Kilkenny city.
Two men in their early twenties have died after a single vehichle accident in Dunshaughlin in the early hours of this morning.
The RSA is calling on parents and teachers to give road safety tips and guidance to children as they head back to school.
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The passengers, who had been ordered off another vehicle, were run over by the bus which then drove off.
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The accidents happened this morning in Mayo, Monaghan and Tyrone.