Three people are due in court in relation to separate incidents of alleged dangerous driving during fuel protests in counties Louth and Cork.<\/p>\n
Two people were arrested yesterday evening on the M1 after a number of articulated tractor units blocked traffic on the northbound carriageway after Junction 14.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed directed that the trucks move to the hard shoulder of the motorway.<\/p>\n
In a statement, An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1ana said that following engagement between garda\u00ed and the drivers of the two lead tractor units, both drivers were arrested.<\/p>\n
They have since been charged and are due before Drogheda District Court later this morning.<\/p>\n
Both tractors were also impounded by garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
In a separate incident in Co Cork on Saturday afternoon, the driver of a tractor pulling a slurry tank was arrested after he failed to stop at a cordon checkpoint near Whitegate.<\/p>\n
He was pursued by garda\u00ed, who said he began driving erratically, serving in the opposite direction and endangering other road users.<\/p>\n
The vehicle was stopped and the driver, who is aged in his 20s, was arrested.<\/p>\n
He has been charged with a number of road traffic offences and is due before Midleton District Court on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people are due in court in relation to separate incidents of alleged dangerous driving during fuel protests…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-397702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397702","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=397702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}