New road safety plan launched

PEOPLE must always refuse lifts from drink-drivers because they may never get home, a Government minister warned yesterday.

Minister of State for Transport Pat Gallagher made the call as he launched a major road safety campaign in his native Co Donegal, one of the country’s worst accident blackspots.

Up to 205 people have been killed in road collisions across Ireland so far this year, a 15% increase on the same period in 2005.