Road safety summit to be held as 10 die

TRANSPORT Minister Seamus Brennan is to call a special summit meeting of all road safety groups within the next fortnight following another weekend of carnage on Irish roads which claimed 10 lives.

Road safety summit to be held as 10 die
Mon, 06 Sep, 2004 - 01:00
Sean McCarthaigh, Peter Gleeson and Sean O'Riordan

A spokesman for Minister Brennan he will also be asking Justice Minister Michael McDowell to deploy more gardaí on weekend traffic duty and has requested the Medical Bureau on Road Safety to examine if there are any specific trends in relation to the high level of accidents.

The death toll on Irish roads this year has risen to 272, an increase of 39 on the same period in 2003.

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