Deaths on Irish roads continue to rise

33-year-old pedestrian in Donegal is first fatality of 2015

The number of people killed on the country’s roads increased for the second year in a row with 21% more fatalities in 2014 than just two years earlier.

The end-of-year statistics came as a 33-year-old female pedestrian in Donegal became the first fatality of 2015 less than two hours after the new year began.