National Slow Down Day has ended after a 24-hour operation in Carlow and Kilkenny and across the country.
But local Gardaí are asking us to continue to watch our speed on the roads and not to use phones while driving.
Gardai checked over 142,000 vehicles for speeding during the day focus.
One driver was caught flying down the motorway at 165 kilometres per hour in South Kilkenny yesterday, while another was travelling 141 kilometres an hour on the M9 in Knocktopher Kilkenny.
Roads Policing Inspector Paul Donohoe says not everyone caught will get away with just penalty points and a fine.
He says if they deem the speed to be dangerous they can have you disqualified on a dangerous driving charge; “They go straight to the courts and then it’s a disqualification, there’s no penalty points, they will get a fine from a judge but a mandatory disqualification the same as if you were being prosecuted for drink driving or drunk driving and no insurance they’re all mandatory where the judge has to disqualify them, so there’s no discretion from the judge, they will be disqualified; if you’re convicted of dangerous driving it is a disqualification”.
There have already been five road deaths in Carlow and KIlkenny so far this year and multiple tragedies in neighbouring counties Tipperary and Laois over the past week of so.
Inspector Donohoe says anyone who finds themselves in a serious crash will find they’ve given themselves an others a life sentence, telling KCLR; “It is forever those families are never going to get over this, I htink they’re going to suffer a lifetime for that”
