Three people died as a result of traffic collisions on Irish roads in the first 96 hours of a garda roads policing operation taking place across the St Patrick\u2019s weekend.<\/p>\n
A woman in her 40s died after a two-car collision occurred at approximately 7.45am on Thursday on the N51 in Boyerstown, Co Meath, and a man in his 80s died after being struck by a bus shortly after 6pm on Thursday on Station Rd in Bray, Co Wicklow.<\/p>\n
On Sunday morning, at around 12.50am, a man in his 20s died on the N4 at Ballynafid, Co Westmeath, following a single vehicle collision.<\/p>\n
Those deaths brought the total number of fatalities on Irish roads this year to 37.<\/p>\n
The garda roads policing operation is taking place throughout the St Patrick\u2019s bank holiday weekend, running from 7am on Thursday, March 12, until 7am on Wednesday, March 18.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are conducting both statutory mandatory intoxicant testing (MIT) and regular, high-visibility policing checkpoints. As of Sunday, a total of 93 people had been arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.<\/p>\n
In excess of 2,550 drivers were detected for speeding offences during the first 72 hours of the operation.<\/p>\n
Notable speeds detected in Cork included one driver travelling at 85km\/h in a 50km\/hr zone on the R617 in Kilnamucky, Tower, on Friday, and another motorist doing 133km\/h in a 100km\/hr zone on the South Ring Road on Saturday.<\/p>\n
During the first 72 hours of the operation, more than 200 drivers were detected holding a mobile phone or not wearing a seatbelt.<\/p>\n
An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na is appealing to all road users to never drive under the influence of alcohol or drugs.<\/p>\n
All drivers taking to the roads this weekend are reminded to slow down, take extra care and to give their driving their full attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people died as a result of traffic collisions on Irish roads in the first 96 hours of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19240,79,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-348566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-garda","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348566","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=348566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}