EU report critical of Ireland’s road safety record
An EU study out this week has hit out at Ireland for failing to lower our death toll on the roads.
Last year, the death toll on Irish roads was much higher than the EU average with 400 people losing their lives on the roads here in 2005.
The report is also critical of the fact that we have only achieved a 13% cut on the numbers of road-deaths last year when we are committed to reducing them by 25%.
The National Safety Council has predicted that as many as one in five road deaths this year will be from the Eastern European community.
They have said that members of the Lithuanian, Latvian and Polish communities have already accounted for 20% of road deaths in 2005 and fear that they may push the death toll this year to well above 400.
In addition, officials from the Motor Bureau of Ireland, who deal with road accident insurance claims, estimate that more than 25% of foreign motorists involved in accidents here are uninsured.
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