Traffic

On this month’s Crimecall Garda Derek Cloughley was in studio to discuss the non-use of safety belts and the use of mobile phones by motorists. At least 1 in 5 vehicular fatalities were not wearing a safety belt at the time of the collision and this figure may rise as investigations progress. The outcomes in some of these collisions could have been so different. During 2018, detections for non-use of safety belts rose by 5% compared to 2017 (approximately 11,500).

Mobile phone detections rose by 9% in 2018 compared to 2017 and remains the second highest detected offence by AGS (approximately 31,000).