From December to the end of March, more than 700 cars were seized according to the Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan.

Cormac O’Keeffe Security Correspondent in Ballyconnell, Co Cavan

One of the first vehicle seizures under the Clancy Amendment, targeting unaccompanied learner drivers, has taken place in Cork. The car was seized on the M8 southbound, near Fermoy, by the local Roads Policing Unit. The driver was caught speeding, and it was discovered he was an unaccompanied learner driver.

The Road Safety Authority has said it will take steps to cut waiting times for driving tests in light of a proposed Government crackdown on learner drivers getting behind the wheel unaccompanied.

A man whose wife and daughter died in a freak road traffic accident has called on the transport minster to give gardaí the power to impound cars driven by unaccompanied learner drivers. 

A man whose wife and daughter died in a freak road traffic accident hopes their deaths will result in new road safety improvements before the end of the year, writes Eoin English of the Irish Examiner.

“I pushed the coffins apart and knelt between them and put my left hand on Geraldine’s clasped hands and my right hand on Louise’s and cried for my wife and daughter.”

A law student whose dangerous driving caused the death of a mother and daughter last Christmas was banned from driving for 15 years and given a suspended jail sentence today.

A 21-year-old woman has appeared in court charged with dangerous driving causing the death of a mother and daughter who were killed three days before Christmas.

A 21-year-old woman has appeared in court charged with dangerous driving causing the death of a mother and daughter who were killed three days before Christmas, writes Joe Leogue.

The death of a mother and daughter in a tragic car crash just three days before Christmas has numbed the north Cork areas of Kilworth and Fermoy.

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UPDATE: UCC has expressed its sincerest sympathies to the family of the student who died, along with her mother, in yesterday's road accident in Co Cork.