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15/03/2010
'Extreme Care' Advised After Analysis
Gardai in Dublin have released possibly life saving findings as part of a campaign warning motorists to exercise extreme care on the capital’s roads during St Patrick’s Festival celebrations.
The Garda analysis service conducted extensive research in the Dublin Region to identify key locations and times where collisions involving death and serious injury occur.
A spokesman for the Dublin Metropolitan Region Traffic Corps said their department will be using the information to plan operations and target resources for maximum effectiveness.
Speaking today at Dublin Castle, Chief Superintendent Aidan Reid said. “The significant data produced by the Garda Analysis service shows that there are three core periods for collisions involving death and serious injury.
They are; 1am to 4am and tend to involve single occupant collisions; 10am to 1pm when there is a combination of deaths and injuries involving motorists and vulnerable road users; and 5pm to 8pm where the primary group affected are vulnerable road users."
Chief Superintendent Reid added: "speed, like drink driving, has become socially unacceptable."
Gardai will be focussing resources in the Dublin region at these key times to reduce these incidents and speed detection will focus on the 50kph where vulnerable road users are most at risk of serious injury or death.
(DW)
The Garda analysis service conducted extensive research in the Dublin Region to identify key locations and times where collisions involving death and serious injury occur.
A spokesman for the Dublin Metropolitan Region Traffic Corps said their department will be using the information to plan operations and target resources for maximum effectiveness.
Speaking today at Dublin Castle, Chief Superintendent Aidan Reid said. “The significant data produced by the Garda Analysis service shows that there are three core periods for collisions involving death and serious injury.
They are; 1am to 4am and tend to involve single occupant collisions; 10am to 1pm when there is a combination of deaths and injuries involving motorists and vulnerable road users; and 5pm to 8pm where the primary group affected are vulnerable road users."
Chief Superintendent Reid added: "speed, like drink driving, has become socially unacceptable."
Gardai will be focussing resources in the Dublin region at these key times to reduce these incidents and speed detection will focus on the 50kph where vulnerable road users are most at risk of serious injury or death.
(DW)
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