Plan to cut road deaths unveiled - after two-year wait

THE Government finally published the new National Road Safety Strategy yesterday - a full two years after the previous one expired.

Its publication came a day after Transport Minister Seamus Brennan held a crisis summit to discuss the ongoing carnage on the nation’s roads.

The minister has taken much flak in recent months for the delay in publishing the document, critics saying it had been “gathering dust” while lives were lost.