In a very frightening report published this week, Ireland has one of the worst records in Europe for reducing road death rates. According to Ireland.com:
“The European Transport Safety Council’s (ETSC) road safety performance index lists Ireland 20th in a list of 29 states in a study tracking road deaths between 2001 and 2006 in the 27 European Union states, as well as Norway and Switzerland.
Despite Ireland’s roll-out of the penalty points system, the introduction of random breath testing, high-profile advertising campaigns and the establishment of the Road Safety Authority (RSA), road deaths have fallen by only 10.9 per cent since 2001.”
