80% of motorway speeders top 141km/h

FOUR out of five drivers breaking speed limits on Irish motorways are racing at 141km/h or more.

Statistics obtained by the Irish Examiner for 2007 show drivers caught speeding across different speed zones were dangerously exceeding limits.

Figures reveal that on city and town streets, on national and regional roads as well as on motorways, nearly three quarters of drivers speeding were racing at 20km/h or more above limits.