Issue Date: 8/11/2024
Since our Slow Down Day operation began at 7am on yesterday morning, Thursday 7th November 2024, An Garda Síochána detected 689 drivers travelling in excess of the applicable speed limit. Of those detections, over half (421) drivers were intercepted by Gardaí. Examples of the high speeds detected overnight include:
• 151km/h in a 100km/h zone on the N4 Clongawny Mullingar Westmeath • 94km/h in a 60km/h zone on the N4 Drishoge Carrick-On-Shannon Roscommon
• 110km/h in a 80km/h zone on the N4 Doddsborough Lucan Dublin
• 126km/h in a 100km/h zone on the N7 Castlewarden South Kill Kildare
• 84km/h in a 60km/h Zone on the N25 Lemybrien Waterford
• 112km/h in a 80km/h zone on the R430 Drumagh Crettyyard Laois.
Chief Superintendent in the Garda National Roads Policing Bureau, Jane Humphries said, "Across all our speed detection systems in place around the county, we are beginning to see some positive indications that drivers are becoming more mindful of the critical need to slow down. That said, the number of those who were detected during this National Slow Down Day do show that there are some people still intent on driving at dangerously excessive and inappropriate speed. "These are the people that Gardaí are most focused on detecting in order to prevent fatal and serious road traffic collisions. They endanger themselves but they will also potentially kill you or I while driving at high speed. "Research strongly demonstrates that choosing to drive 10Km/h over the speed limit, thinking that it will get you to your destination in quicker time, is a fallacy. If anything it can only save seconds from your journey so it really is not worth quite possibly loosing your life over.”
