Site crashes amid rush to look up speed traps

THOUSANDS of frustrated motorists caused a new speed camera website to crash during most of yesterday, just hours before the camera system went live at midnight.

Up to 50,000 hits overwhelmed the Garda website by lunchtime.

By evening time, gardaí were able to place a link on the page directly to the Google map (www.garda.ie/gosafe.html), which shows the 750 sites covered by the privately run system.