Road deaths in three counties up 50%

ROAD deaths in Cork, Kerry and Limerick in the first two months of this year are up 50% on the comparative period for 2006 and well ahead of the national trend.

The Garda Press Office said yesterday that nationally the number of people who died on roads up to March 6 was 76, exactly the same for the same date last year.

Yet in the three southern counties, 12 people died to the end of February, which is exactly one-sixth of the countrywide total for that period. Only eight people lost their lives in the region during the first two months of 2005.