Gardaí to take part in Europe-wide speeding crackdown

GARDAÍ will take part in a Europe-wide crackdown on speeding next week ahead of the May bank holiday.

Operation Speed, coordinated by the European Traffic Police Network TISPOL, comes as new statistics show young drivers, particularly males, are still more likely to be involved in car crashes and die on the roads.

While the number of fatalities so far this year is down 12 compared with the same period last year, 57 people have still died on the roads, including 11 drivers aged between 17 and 30.