From 7 AM this Friday 31st May to 7 AM on Saturday 1st June 2013
An Garda Síochána, along with other stakeholders, will run Operation “Slow Down”. The objectives of the Operation are to raise awareness of the dangers of inappropriate and excessive speed, reduce the number of speed related collisions, and therefore save lives and reduce injuries on our roads.
For the past seven years, there has been a year on year decrease in the number of road fatalities in Ireland. However, as we move into the second half of 2013, there have been 11 more fatalities on our roads than at this time last year. This brings to 75, the number of people killed in a road traffic collision to date.
Based on collision data to date in 2013 over three quarters (78%) of fatalities have been a driver, passenger or motorcyclist. Similarly more than one third (37%) of fatalities have occurred on Thursdays and Fridays. Excessive or inappropriate speed is a significant contributory factor in road traffic collisions.
There will be highly visible speed checkpoints on national primary and secondary roads, carried out by local members and the Garda Traffic Corps, and also by GoSafe vans.
Each Garda Division will have an area locally where members will be available to give road safety advice and distribute leaflets. Garda members who are not responding to emergency calls will be leading by example - reducing their speed, and driving at speeds appropriate to the prevailing conditions.
Here's some shocking stats folks
Road Deaths by Day of Week – 2013 to date
Day
|
2013
|
Monday
|
8
|
Tuesday
|
7
|
Wednesday
|
10
|
Thursday
|
14
|
Friday
|
14
|
Saturday
|
12
|
Sunday
|
10
|
Road User deaths per category 2013 to date
Road User Type/Age
|
TOT
|
%
|
Pedestrian
|
12
|
16
|
Driver
|
42
|
56
|
Passenger
|
10
|
13
|
Motorcyclist
|
7
|
9
|
Pillion Passenger
|
0
|
0.0
|
Pedal Cyclist
|
4
|
5
|
Unknown
|
0
|
0.0
|
Total
|
75
|
Year to Date Road Traffic Fatalities by County
County
|
Fatalities
|
Carlow
|
2
|
Cavan
|
2
|
Clare
|
1
|
4
| |
Donegal
|
4
|
6
| |
7
| |
Kerry
|
4
|
Kildare
|
6
|
Kilkenny
|
2
|
3
| |
Louth
|
1
|
Mayo
|
5
|
Monaghan
|
3
|
Offaly
|
2
|
Roscommon
|
2
|
3
| |
8
| |
3
| |
Westmeath
|
1
|
Wexford
|
4
|
Wicklow
|
2
|
Total
|
75
|
June Bank Holiday 2010 to 2012
Detail
|
2010
|
2011
|
2012
|
Fatalities (people)
|
3
|
1
|
6
|
Fatal collisions
|
3
|
1
|
5
|
Serious injuries (people)
|
6
|
12
|
11
|
Serious injury collisions
|
3
|
8
|
4
|
MAT Checkpoints
|
1,034
|
1,229
|
874
|
MAT Breath tests
|
16,648
|
13,572
|
7,645
|
Intoxicated while driving incidents
|
233
|
198
|
172
|
All figures are current as of 28th May 2013 and are provisional, operational and subject to change.
Results for Operation Slow Down - July 2012
Operation Slow Down was conducted over 24 hours from 7am Friday 6th July to 7am Saturday 7th July 2012.
Over 72,000 vehicles were monitored by GoSafe resulting in a rate of detection 1 in 466. The rate of detection for the previous 5 days was 1 in 242.
During Friday 6th July there were 929 fixed charge notices issued for speeding
- 633 non-intercept (GoSafe and Garda operated)
- 296 intercept (Garda only)
During Saturday 7th July there were 873 fixed charge notices issued for speeding
- 606 non-intercept (GoSafe and Garda operated)
- 267 intercept (Garda only)
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