A motorist travelling at 147km\/h in an 80km\/h zone was among 1,200 drivers detected speeding during the first 48 hours of a garda road traffic operation this bank holiday weekend.<\/p>\n
The operation began at 7am on Thursday and will continue until 7am on Tuesday, with high-visibility checkpoints around the country and garda\u00ed carrying out tests for intoxicated driving.<\/p>\n
Over 1,200 drivers were detected speeding during the first 48 hours of the operation.<\/p>\n
They included a motorist driving at 147km\/h in an 80km\/h zone on the R245, Milford, Co, Donegal; 173 km\/h in a 100km\/h zone on the N87, Belturbet, Co Cavan; a motorist driving at 111km\/h in a 60km\/h zone on the R267, Bundoran, Co Donegal; and a motorist driving at 107km\/h in an 80km\/h zone on the R684, Dunmore East, Co Waterford<\/p>\n
So far, 48 people have been arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.<\/p>\n
During the same period, nearly 110 drivers were detected holding a mobile phone or not wearing a seatbelt.<\/p>\n
An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na and the Road Safety Authority (RSA) are appealing to road users to support their efforts to keep people safe during the bank holiday weekend.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are urging road users to take extra caution around vulnerable road users, in particular pedestrians and cyclists.<\/p>\n
The number of fatalities on Irish roads so far this year is 55, which is two higher than the same period last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorist travelling at 147km\/h in an 80km\/h zone was among 1,200 drivers detected speeding during the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-428574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428574","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=428574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}