Road traffic laws ‘not realising potential’

ROAD traffic legislation is not realising its full potential to save lives and reduce serious injury, according to expert analysis.

Prof Denis Cusack, director of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety and head of the Department of Forensic Medicine at UCD, one of the authors of the report, believes Ireland faces an ongoing battle in road safety.

The researchers examined data from the past five years which show that almost 25,000 drivers had given blood or urine samples over the legal limit for driving.