40% rise in speed camera locations

The number of locations where speed cameras are used is to set to expand by 40% as gardaí report a large drop in fatal collisions in areas where they already operate.

An extra 243 stretches of road are to be added to the current network where speed cameras can be used by the end of this month, bringing the overall total to 727 locations.

Sections covered by the GoSafe speed cameras will now account for around 2.5% of the entire road network of 96,000km.