{"id":663657,"date":"2026-10-24T02:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T02:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663657\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T02:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T02:32:16","slug":"renewed-concern-locally-over-led-lights-on-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663657\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewed concern locally over LED lights on cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research carried out in the UK is backing up claims made by a Leitrim Councillor in relation to the danger of LED lights on cars<\/p>\n<p>The research in question found that more than eight in ten road users say they&#8217;re concerned about the impact headlight glare will have on driving this winter.<\/p>\n<p>The research was conducted to examine the effect of earlier nights when the clocks go back on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A fifth of those affected plan to drive less due to being dazzled by car lights.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year Leitrim Councillor Justin Warnock called on the RSA to ban automatic LED light which should automatically dip when they meet other vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Cllr Warnock says he has personal experience of the dangers of such lights and says their use can lead to road traffic collisions:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Research carried out in the UK is backing up claims made by a Leitrim Councillor in relation to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-663657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663657","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=663657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}