As part of the October bank holiday roads policing operation 146 have been arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed said that just over 3,490 drivers were detected for speeding offences during the first four days of the operation, which began on Thursday and runs until tomorrow.<\/p>\n
In a statement, garda\u00ed outlined some notable speeds detected yesterday:<\/p>\n
75km\/h in a 50km\/h zone on the R294, Tubbercurry, Co Sligo
82km\/h in a 60km\/h zone on the N4 at Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Roscommon
131km\/h in an 80km\/h zone on the R738 at Barntown, Co Wexford
153 km\/h in a 100 km\/h zone on the N11 at Newtownmountkennedy, Co Wicklow<\/p>\n
In the first four days of the operation, more than 300 drivers were detected holding a mobile phone or not wearing a seatbelt.<\/p>\n
An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na and the Road Safety Authority are urging all road users to support their efforts to keep people safe on the roads this October bank holiday weekend.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are urging road users to be mindful of and take extra care around vulnerable road users, in particular pedestrians and cyclists.<\/p>\n
They also said that cyclists and pedestrians should ensure they are clearly visible in darker conditions and always observe their surroundings as road safety needs to be a priority for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As part of the October bank holiday roads policing operation 146 have been arrested for driving under the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-665941","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\/665941","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=665941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}