Nearly 1,000 drivers caught breaking the speed limit during national 'Slow Down Day'
Over a 24-hour period,150,605 vehicles were checked.
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Over a 24-hour period,150,605 vehicles were checked.
Gardaí are urging people to slow down this weekend.
Officers had been checking cars over a 24-hour period.
The driver was detected speeding during An Garda Síochána’s National Slow Down Day today.
Over the 24-hour period, gardaí and GoSafe checked a total of 195,768 vehicles.
Gardaí had asked drivers to slow down as speeding is a major factor in fatal collisions.
In recent months, 32 motorists have been prosecuted for dangerous driving between junctions 8 and 11 on the M7.
Over 100,000 cars were checked, but only a small number were speeding.
The 24-hour operation remains in place until 7am tomorrow.
Experts have said the Central Bank’s lending restrictions are behind the slowdown.
Dublin City Council said it is aiming to encourage Dubliners to get out and be more active.
The speed limit on the road is 100kmph.
Some 87 roads policing members have been newly appointed and this is due to increase to 150 by the end of the year.
Met Eireann have issued several wind and snow-ice warnings for this afternoon.
Theories have often abounded that older phones would become obsolete automatically.
Fingal County Council is urging motorists in the vicinity of local schools to slow down.
The average speed cameras at the tunnel came into force in May.
Traffic officers also dealt with a souped-up motorbike in Wicklow this afternoon.
The expansion will come into effect from midnight on Tuesday 30 May.
Gardaí said the speed of 34,000 vehicles were checked this morning all across the country.
“We are confident that this will save lives,” said Dublin City Council engineer Andy Walsh.
According to a survey by TheAA, Dublin and Cork had the highest number of drivers who broke the speed limit in the past month.
Gardaí in Naas also caught a motorist driving at 185kph.
Gardaí confirmed there were a lot of pedestrians in the area ahead of the Munster vs. Leinster rugby match.
Councillor Ciaran Cuffe said there is strong academic evidence that this move can save lives.
The incident happened yesterday on the M8 motorway near Fermoy.
Dublin City Council plans to expand the 30km/hr speed limit across further areas of the city.
The slowest is Legan in Longford, while the fastest is Drimnagh in Dublin 12.
Gardaí have thanked the tens of thousands of drivers on Irish roads who were found to be compliant.
The most notable detections were in Mayo, Cork, Donegal, Kerry, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Wexford, Clare and Limerick.
With the new system drivers will be clocked at both ends of the tunnel.
High visibility speed enforcement will be carried out in all 1,031 speed enforcement zones.
* Or there will be from next Friday. That’s an increase of almost 50% following a major Garda expansion programme.
One third of fatal Irish road crashes were caused by speed.
Officers are urging drivers to slow down.
The driver will now have to appear in Naas court in February.
Irish MEP Deirdre Clune said the drivers should be rewarded for using the car system that can automatically limit the speed of the vehicle.
A 24-hour speeding clamp-down ‘Operation Slow Down’ ended at 7am this morning.
Gardaí have announced a 24-hour enforcement campaign.
They’ve checked more than 18,000 cars for speed today.