Bank holiday road warning as speeding fines rise 17%

The number of motorists caught speeding so far this year is way up on last year, new Garda figures released in advance of the annual bank holiday clampdown show.

From January to the end of March this year, almost 45,000 fixed-charge notices were issued to speeders — almost 17% more than in the same period last year.

And the figures show there is no point in offenders claiming they were only going one or two kilometres over the limit, as 80% of speeding vehicles were clocked at between 10km and 30km too fast and more than one in 10 (11%) were doing speeds in excess of 30km above the limit.