Concern over the high number of child pedestrian road deaths

IRELAND has the highest number of child pedestrian road deaths in the EU — over 40 on the last count and this will not be reduced by the new poster campaign being launched by gardaí today, the Green Party insisted last night.

The Pedestrian Safety Awareness Campaign, being launched by Assistant Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy in association with a range of national agencies, aims to cut the number of road deaths substantially.

The latest EU figures show 86 pedestrians were killed on Irish roads in 2002 and 47% of these were children.