No fooling around in drive to cut out speeding

Road safety officers have come up with a novel way of ‘fooling’ motorists to slow down today by erecting a life-size cutout of a garda on various routes.

The initiative is being undertaken by Mayo County Council in conjunction with An Garda Síochána as part of an April 1 campaign, ‘Don’t be fooled — speed kills’.

The cutouts of Garda Emma Conneely of the Castlebar traffic corps with a speed gun will be strategically placed at known speed areas around the county.