On the longest night of the year be safe and be seen, the Road Safety Authority and ESB Networks have urged road users.

Speed camera staff are to begin a 72 hour strike at 9am this morning.

Assistant commissioner in charge of roads policing, David Sheahan, said that five out of six people tested positive at a roadside drug test in Dublin over the weekend.

There was a 35% increase in the number of complaints of driving-licence fraud last year.

A new fixed charge penalty app that will “revolutionise” road policing in Ireland will be rolled out across the country by the end of the year.

Fears have been raised that progress made on improving road safety has stalled after new figures showed a 7% increase in road deaths this year.

We have come a long way in making our roads safer over the past two decades. In 1998, 458 deaths occurred on Irish roads, compared with 146 in 2018. In fact, as the Road Safety Authority (RSA) revealed yesterday, there has been a 68% reduction in fatalities on Irish roads since the introduction of the first road safety strategy in 1998.

There has been a 23% increase this year in people disqualified from driving because of penalty-point offences.

Deaths on Irish roads fell by more than two-thirds over the last 10 years, according to the Road Safety Authority (RSA).

The Road Safety Authority is urging people to stop rubbernecking at the scene of a crash.

Drug drivers are being targeted over the June bank holiday weekend as gardaí report a 15% rise in arrests for driving 'under the influence' over the first four months of the year, compared to the same period last year.

Drug drivers are the target of the June Bank Holiday road safety campaign.

Up to 12% of motorcyclists have been in a crash in the past two years, according to the Road Safety Authority.

The CEO of the Road Safety Authority has described the number of learner drivers who have never sat their test as "shocking".

There has been a 24% increase in detections of people holding mobile phones while driving - a practice which makes the driver four times more likely to crash.

Gardaí will be out in force over the St Patrick's weekend targeting drivers under the influence of drink and drugs.

A severe shortage of driving testers is leading to long delays for applicants in the Cork and Kerry area.

The number of people dying on the roads has risen again, reversing the downward trend of recent years.

Transport Minister Shane Ross has accused rural TDs who tried to block a drink-driving bill of needlessly risking the lives of their own constituents after it emerged two in every three road deaths this year have occurred in rural areas.

Over 470,000 children have taken part in a national competition launched 14 years ago that encourages them to stay safe on the roads.

A government U-turn on making it a mandatory requirement for people to use a public services card (PSC) to apply for a driving licence or learner permit, from April 9, could cost several million euro.

More than half of those interested in owning a self-drive car say they will spend the commuting time on their phones, reading or watching television, it has emerged.

The proportion of learner drivers involved in fatal car accidents is much lower than the proportion of learner drivers on the road.

Last year saw the fewest fatalities on Irish roads since records began, according to figures from the gardaí and Road Safety Authority.

158 people died on Irish roads in 2017, according to the latest Road Safety Authority statistics.

A young man left paralysed after a traffic collision 11 years ago has been honoured by the Road Safety Authority for his road safety campaign.

Alcohol accounts for almost 40% of fatal road crashes in the run-up to Christmas, according to the Road Safety Authority (RSA).

Nearly half of all driver deaths in 2016 were on regional and local roads.

Elber Twomey’s pain was etched on her face as she recalled the car crash that wiped out her family five years ago.

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 grieving mum whose son died after he was struck by a car three years ago is glad local authorities around the country are being urged to introduce 30km/h zones in urban areas.

The Road Safety Authority (RSA) marked the opening of Road Safety Week by pointing out that Ireland is falling behind Europe in setting 30km/h speed limits in cities and towns. 

Local Authorities are being urged to introduce more 30km/h zones in towns and cities around the country.

Motorists are being reminded that they may be over the legal limit this morning if they have been drinking last night.

More than a quarter of a million motorists drove after drinking at least once in the past year, a revealing survey shows.

16 per cent of motorists under 24 admit to drinking and driving in the past year, according to new research.

The IFA and the Road Safety Authority are urging road users to take extra care in the summer months due to the seasonal increase in the number of tractors, trailers and other farm machinery on the roads.

Transport Minister Shane Ross has pledged to go ahead with plans to name and shame drink drivers as road safety campaigners lambasted rural TDs for opposing stricter penalties for offenders.

A 52-year-old man struck by a truck in Dublin yesterday evening brings to 77 the number of people killed on the roads so far this year, writes Catherine Shanahan.

A 52-year-old man struck by a truck in Dublin yesterday evening brings to 77 the number of people killed on the roads so far this year.

“Presenting the figure of 1.3% is a selective use of the data in an attempt to undermine the real impact of drinking and driving.”

There is “concrete evidence” to support the introduction of an automatic three-month disqualification for anybody caught drink driving, the Road Safety Authority has claimed.

More than half of all vehicles booked in for the NCT last year failed to make the grade.