County Tipperary is to see an increased number of hours of road speed monitoring in response to increasing road fatalities. The number of hours of Speed Monitoring conducted by Mobile Safety cameras or Go Safe vans is to be increased by 4,265 Hours until the end of 2023.
To date this year 129 lives have been lost nationally on roads with 65% of collisions so far involving a single vehicle.
Garda say approximately 30% of fatal collisions are as a direct result of speeding or inappropriate speed with approximately 75% of all fatal collisions in 2023 occurring in 80kmph and 100kmph zones.
The road deaths and serious injury collisions are not evenly distributed geographically.
The additional monitoring hours are to be deployed on a risk basis and in the seven Garda Divisions where there is a higher risk of fatal road traffic collisions occurring.
The Clare/Tipperary Garda division accounts for the highest number of road fatalities so far this year.
The following Divisions collectively account for 67% [86] of all road deaths in 2023:
Clare/Tipperary (19)
Mayo/Roscommon/Longford (16)
Meath/Westmeath (12)
Galway (12)
Kildare/Laois/Offaly (10)
Cavan/Monaghan (9)
Cork North (6) and Cork West (2)
Funding of €1.2 million is to be allocated towards increasing the presence of Mobile Safety cameras.
The primary purpose of this additional deployment will be to reduce speed-related collisions, reduce injuries and above all save lives according to An Garda Siochana.
The aim is to change road user behaviour and reduce the likelihood of fatal and serious injury road traffic collisions occurring particularly on stretches of roads where there is a history of collisions.
The full list of safety camera locations is available at this link on the garda.ie website.
