A man has been arrested for dangerous driving in Carlow yesterday as he failed to stop at a roads policing checkpoint and crashed into another car.
The man was travelling at 78 kilometres an hour in a 50km zone on the Link Road in Chapelstown when a checkpoint for National Slow Down Day attempted to stop him.
It comes as a 57 drivers were found speeding across Carlow and Kilkenny yesterday, with four tickets handed out for mobile phone use while driving. (More here).
Roads Policing Inspector Paul Donohoe says “Gardaí attempted to stop that vehicle and that vehicle failed to stop and drove through the checkpoint and actually collided with another car in doing so, luckily didn’t hit the member on the road so gardaí had to pursue that vehicle and subsequently arrested the driver of that vehicle and ended up that driver had no insurance, no driving licence and that car was actually stolen”.
