Gardaí are out in force on roads across the country today.
It’s National Slow Down Day and motorists are being called upon to drop their speed.
The campaign aims to reduce the number of fatalities by targeting those driving too fast.
Dylan Coady Coleman, a 10-year-old boy from Clare, is the 37th person to die on the roads so far this year.
Three young people died in a crash in Co Carlow at the end of January with another young man killed on a Kilkenny road just over a fortnight later followed by the death of a second local man in a road incident in Co Limerick.
Superintendent Liam Geraghty says small actions can have a huge impact, noting; “World Health Organisation statistics will show that even a reduction in five kms per hour in average speed and that’s not just people breaking the speed limit driving within the speed limit but people driving within the speed limit reducing their speed by five kms per hour can actually have a 30% decrease in the amount of road fatalities on our roads”.
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