Traffic hotline helps cut road deaths and injuries

A PILOT programme which has helped cut fatalities and serious injuries on roads in the south east could be rolled out nationwide next year.

Under the Traffic Watch scheme, piloted in Tipperary, Waterford, Kilkenny, Wexford, and parts of Wicklow, motorists are asked to telephone a hotline to report dangerous and reckless driving or bad behaviour on roads.

In its first year, 4,000 calls have been logged, almost half of which were complaints about driving.