Multiple traffic laws causing legal confusion warn experts

The law on drink driving was probably the offence 'most subject to legal challenges and appeals', because a conviction carried with it automatic disqualification from driving.

It is extremely difficult for anyone to know road traffic laws given there are more than 20 Road Traffic Acts and over 900 legal orders on the area, the State’s legal experts have said.

The Law Reform Commission said this includes the law on drink driving, which, it said, was probably the offence “most subject to legal challenges and appeals”, because a conviction carried with it automatic disqualification from driving.