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ROAD SAFETY * Ireland - EU Report Ranks Ireland 6th in EU for road safety
Brussels,Belgium -HGV -24 June 2009: -- The Road Safety Authority (RSA) has thanked road users in Ireland for improving the culture of safety on Irish roads as a new EU report, ranks Ireland the 6th safest country out of the 27 EU Member States, in terms of road safety... The report published by the Brussels based European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) based its findings on Ireland's road safety performance in 2008 when 279 people died on Irish roads. The announcement sees Ireland improve its standing in the table of best performing EU countries from 9th position in 2007... Some 39,000 people were killed in road collisions in 2008 in the EU 27 countries, while this is 15,400 fewer fatalities than in 2001 it is still far from the 27,000 deaths limit which the EU set for itself in its Road Safety Target for 2010... (Picture from independent.ie: crash)
* Gardai scale back multi-agency checks on grounds
Dublin,Ireland -HGV -19 June 2009: -- Multi-agency checkpoints targeting the road haulage industry have been reduced, after Gardai concluded the checkpoints were a road safety hazard... Earlier this week Superintendent, Declan O'Brien, of the Garda Traffic Bureau said the checkpoints were mounted on main roads at peak times and that a number of rogue operators were identified and placed on what he termed a "risk register"... The checkpoints were mounted in the wake of information received from the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA), which claimed that Irish hauliers were among the most frequent offenders in terms of road safety... O'Brien also admitted that the number of multi-agency personnel required and the length of time it took to thoroughly check a HGV resulted in road safety issues for the general motoring public... (Picture from tispol.org: Police carry out Truck checks)
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