Road Safety Youth Group

18/05/2016

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Long awaited safety measure

01/10/2013

Well the count is in :) we raised a great €334 on Friday night at the teenage disco for our project. This means we can now print our road safety leaflets that we are in the process of designing, watch this space :) thanks again to all involved.

30/09/2013

Well done to all involved in the teenage disco ran last Friday night in the community centre to raise funds for our project, I will be posting the amount raised later today. Thanks to Dave Cummins for taking photos and Gaza for dj-ing and to everyone else that helped out on the night.

05/07/2013

Looking forward to a great weekends residential with the youth group. Heading away today till Sunday to Todds Leap in Tyrone. They deserve this weekend so should be good fun :)

17/06/2013

Good morning all, another important day for us today, meeting with senior county engineers and staff from the national roads authority today hoping we can make some further headway on our project :)) wish us luck

31/05/2013

Hi everyone, if you haven't already please like our page and invite you're friends. Need to get as much support as possible.

24/05/2013

We just finished our meeting the local Councillors and our TD's, well done to all involved on a great presentation. Now we have the support we need :) Thanks to everyone involved.

23/05/2013

Very important day today, we have a meeting with all the local TD's, Senators, and Councillors to let them know what we are doing, what we hope to achieve and also to get their support, wish us luck, spread the word and keep an eye out for updates.

17/05/2013

Deaths and injuries on Irish roads
Road deaths on Irish roads reached the lowest level on record in 2010.
The number of Irish road deaths fell to 186 in 2011, the lowest level on record, down 26 from 2010. The Government’s road safety target of achieving no more than 252 deaths per annum by the end of 2012 was achieved three years ahead of schedule. There has been 168 road deaths a year to date (i.e. 12-month period measured backward from November 2012).

The 186 who died consisted of 47 pedestrians, 9 cyclists, 65 car drivers, 30 car passengers, 17 goods vehicle and 18 bikers.

Other figures show:

30% of deaths were aged under 24
Friday was the most dangerous day of the week with 35 deaths
70% of road deaths were male
The hours between 3pm and 5pm were the most dangerous, with 39 deaths (21%)
The average monthly fatality rate was 16 in 2011 compared to 18 in 2010 and 20 in 2009
The safest month of the year was April when 8 deaths occurred. This is also the safety month on record
2011 road death and injury statistics

County Road Deaths* Injuries
Carlow 3 104
Cavan 5 179
Clare 2 169
Cork 27 764
Donegal 6 310
Dublin 11 1550
Galway 13 438
Kerry 7 244
Kildare 15 270
Kilkenny 6 126
Laois 1 107
Leitrim 1 86
Limerick 15 421
Longford 2 66
Louth 6 240
Mayo 12 203
Meath 4 267
Monaghan 6 125
Offaly 4 102
Roscommon 5 142
Sligo 3 129
Tipperary 11 131
Waterford 7 184
Westmeath 6 135
Wexford 5 228
Wicklow 3 252


Archive
2010 Deaths on Irish Roads (40kB)
2009 Deaths on Irish Roads (73kB)

17/05/2013

Good morning all on this beautiful sunny day, take it easy on the roads today as they can be very slippy after all that rain :)