Target of 11 million speed camera checks a year

It is hoped new laws allowing for extra speed cameras and random breath testing will curb the road carnage, writes Paul Kelly.

THE country’s two million motorists will be tracked on speed cameras at least five times a year under new measures to cut the grim toll of death in the roads.

Random breath-tests and on-the-spot fines for drink-drivers, longer bans for rogue motorists, a curb on the length of time drivers can hold provisional licences as well as an extra 800 speed cameras are set to come into force in autumn.