Bank Holiday road safety campaign a success
Road safety campaigns and increased garda checkpoints seem to have worked over the Bank Holiday weekend, with a huge drop in the number of road deaths on Irish roads.
One motorcyclist died on Saturday night, compared to five deaths last year.
Superintendent John Farrelly, says the dramatic fall was due to extra garda patrols throughout the country over the weekend.
“If you went into a town and came out, you had to be stopped by a garda checkpoint,” he said.
“These checkpoints were selected in every county, so some towns could be visited two times but over the six-day campaign every town would have been visited,” said Superintendent Farrelly.
