Road safety

The incident on the R445 is believed to have occurred sometime between 10.30pm on Thursday and 12.30pm on Friday

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Targets to reduce road deaths hampered by population growth and boom in road users, group tells transport committee

Minister said last month proposed reforms for the Road Safety Authority would be brought forward shortly, but there is no sign of them yet

Recognition also for drivers who deliver The Irish Times in hail, rain or snow

Gardaí and emergency services at scene of overturned car in Limerick crash

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It would be good for us all to implement the precautionary principle logically and focus our attention on motorists

The 17-year-old has been named as Janis Ozols as local councillor urges e-scooter ‘clampdown’

All road users need to improve and be more conscientious, including cyclists

Such destruction should be regarded as an ecological emergency, not routine maintenance

For pedestrians, don’t walk, but rather reflect

They will need a note in their information pack and a yellow vest

New research shows Ireland’s longer-term road mortality rate is still lower than EU average

We should be furious that road safety campaigns focus on high-vis clothing while our streets become increasingly dangerous

Man in his 40s pronounced dead at the scene after crash on the N73 near Mitchelstown

Incident took place on the N59 near Ballina on Sunday morning

Dessie Sheridan pronounced dead at scene of incident outside Omagh

Reader argues mandatory helmet use would improve road safety and be easy to enforce

Irish international pronounced dead after hitting parked lorry on N72 near Lismore

We have designed roads to suit cars and trucks to the point where it is not safe to walk or cycle

Driver of one of the motorcycles was pronounced dead at the scene on Sunday

Total number of deaths this year reaches 71, as gardaí crack down on road offences over bank holiday weekend

Bank holiday roads policing operation in place as busy roads lead to risk

Garda operation over bank holiday weekend to target dangerous driving, speeding and mobile use at wheel

‘It’s really hard. This brings it all straight back to you,’ Grace’s father Martin said

Isolation, personal wellbeing and road safety could all be improved

Checking text messages, eating food and adjusting navigation apps among the distractions surveyed

Belén Arana Núñez was pronounced dead at the scene of the incident on N11 Bray Road in Loughlinstown

‘I’ll appeal that, that’s a f*cking disgrace’, Niall O’Halloran (57) shouted in court after sentence was read out

Garda investigations into the incident are continuing

Death brings to five the number killed on the State’s roads over the weekend

Three men died in two separate incidents in Co Donegal, while a pedestrian has died in a crash in Co Dublin

Most women can cycle, but don’t feel safe doing so: ‘I think the majority of Irish drivers do not know what it’s like to be a cyclist in Ireland’

Crash happened in Nenagh at about 9pm on Tuesday

Paul Hollywood accused by police of tailgating cars at high speeds to ‘bully’ them out of fast lane

Gardaí find more than 300 drivers holding a mobile phone or not wearing seat belt in roads policing operation

Niall McEneaney catastrophically injured and died after being hit by Michael Ball’s car on St Patrick’s Day 2024

The real burden of road trauma on the health system is far greater than the fatality count might suggest

Gardai have sought witnesses to single vehicle collision on Sunday