Drivers in Carlow are less likely to receive penalty points than any other county according to the latest figures from the Road Safety Authority.
Just 1 per cent of all penalty points in the country were handed down in Carlow, while 2 per cent were gi.ven in Kilkenny.
Tipperary had the third highest road death rate in the country, while Wexford has the highest child road death rate in the South East.
Meanwhile, Waterford has the region’s safest roads with 2 people dying per one hundred thousand.