Special traffic unit in accident blackspot extended until March

A SPECIAL garda traffic unit which was set up on Donegal’s Inishowen peninsula last October in response to a high number of road fatalities in the area has now been extended until March.

While no figures were available at this point, Justice Minister Michael McDowell claimed the pilot unit had led to an increase in the detection of motor traffic offences in the Buncrana region.

However, Mr McDowell’s remarks were made last Thursday before last weekend’s tragedy in which five eastern Europeans were killed following a two-car collision on the main Buncrana to Derry road.