{"id":204791,"date":"2025-12-22T08:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/204791\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T08:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:25:12","slug":"gardai-warn-ireland-could-hit-200-road-deaths-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/204791\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed warn Ireland could hit 200 road deaths in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.96fm.ie\/news\/96fm-news-and-sport\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All 96FM News &amp; Sport<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6555ddb50d2ea.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            So far, 184 people have died on our roads more than 20 up on this time last year.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"596\" data-start=\"292\">Over the weekend, two more lives were lost on Irish roads.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"596\" data-start=\"292\">In Cork, 34-year-old father of two Joice Thomas tragically died when his car entered the swollen River Bride on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"596\" data-start=\"292\">Friends and colleagues have launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/joice-thomas-a-34yearold-keralite-from-kambammettu-livin?attribution_id=sl:4b387a03-00da-4a0a-b491-4be8c9bb2bbd&amp;lang=en_IE&amp;ts=1766270385&amp;utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fundraising<\/a> appeal to support his family, raising over \u20ac76,000 within hours.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"870\" data-start=\"598\">The national Christmas road safety blitz is now under way, with Garda\u00ed operating more than 10,000 checkpoints across the country.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"870\" data-start=\"598\">The campaign is targeting speeding, drink-driving, and drug-driving offences, and aims to make the roads safer over the busy holiday period.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1028\" data-start=\"872\">Road safety inspectors are urging drivers and pedestrians alike to stay alert, obey speed limits, wear seatbelts, and avoid distractions behind the wheel.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1028\" data-start=\"872\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1028\" data-start=\"872\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/onic-player\/id6747436925?ppid=7f34f5aa-7e94-4bfd-8061-e41ce90c27a8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/68da98f341698.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All 96FM News &amp; Sport So far, 184 people have died on our roads more than 20 up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1339,61,60,1344,1345,43,1343,1342,1341,1340],"class_list":{"0":"post-204791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cork-96fm","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-live-broadcast-available","12":"tag-lorraine-and-ross","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-news-and-information","15":"tag-presenters","16":"tag-programmes","17":"tag-the-word-on-96fm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}