Disqualified drivers ‘will not be let flout law’

A range of measures are in place and more are on the way to stop disqualified drivers dodging the law, Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe has claimed.

His comments come as figures from the Road Safety Authority (RSA) show more than 500 drivers were disqualified from driving at the time they received their conviction for dangerous driving causing death or serious injury between January 2013 and March 2015.

The figures were released by the RSA to road safety group PARC and come just days after it was revealed that, of the more than 20,000 people due before the district courts for drink-driving offences, just 6,700 or 40% were convicted.