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Over 8,750 drivers were arrested last year on suspicion of driving under the influence of drink or drugs

Figures on roads policing detections were released today by gardaí.

GARDAÍ ARRESTED 8,753 drivers on suspicion of driving under the influence of drink or drugs in 2018. 

As well as this, over 130,000 drivers were detected breaking the speed limit last year, and just under 30,000 were caught holding a phone while driving. 

Figures on roads policing detections were released today by gardaí.

Gardaí also tweeted about a driver being arrested yesterday in Wicklow on suspicion of drink driving in a car that had empty cans of beer in the front passenger side and in the door.

Gardaí tweeted that the driver had been arrested in Newtownmountkennedy, Co Wicklow yesterday on suspicion of drink driving.

They also tweeted two photos of empty cans of Heineken. 

Provisional statistics up to 31 December 2018 show that a total of 149 people lost their lives on Ireland’s roads as a result of 142 fatal crashes.

This compares with 158 deaths as a result of 141 fatal crashes in 2017, making last year the safest year on Ireland’s roads since deaths were first recorded in 1959.

With reporting Conall Thomas

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    May 2nd 2014, 6:40 PM

    Big Irish community around Woodside, hope all are OK

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    May 2nd 2014, 7:03 PM

    Irish – or not. I agree.

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    May 2nd 2014, 7:04 PM

    I lived in woodside for 4 years , sunnyside and woodside are very big irish communities. I really hop all is ok

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    May 2nd 2014, 7:38 PM

    When will society learn that trains are deathtraps and need to be banned. Enough is enough!

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    May 2nd 2014, 11:13 PM

    Airoplanes are worse….

    They go missing…….

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    May 2nd 2014, 11:17 PM

    I remember at least one sap demanding they put barriers and doors on every platform. Where’s the Oprah Mom brigade when you need them?

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    May 3rd 2014, 12:13 AM

    barriers and doors work in London why not new York or any other station , any new station should have them and then retro fit them there not expensive and can save lives

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    May 3rd 2014, 12:31 AM

    Yeah they have them at the stations in London with big passenger numbers. The station for the o2 Arena/millennium dome at Greenwich has them. Work very well when dealing with big crowds on the platform.

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    May 2nd 2014, 10:31 PM

    yeah lets hope all the injured were American or some other nationality sure they don’t matter.

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