15% of drivers travel 20km over limit

PEOPLE involved in a car crash at 80km/h are 20 times more likely to die than those in an accident at 32km/h, road safety experts heard yesterday.

And three out of 20 motorists regularly travel at high-risk speeds of more than 20km/h above legal speed limits, research has shown. Some 14% of drivers generally drive at high-risk speeds, with 15% of motorists travelling in excess of 20km/h above speed limits, delegates at a major road safety conference heard.

Professor Ray Fuller of the School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, said 90% of this high-risk group were male drivers with an average age of 26.