Speeding offences soar since start of pandemic

RSA chair Liz O’Donnell said that 2020 has “been hard enough a year already” without Christmas fatalities on the roads being added into the mixture. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie

Speeding offences in Ireland are up by more than a quarter since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The stark statistic was one of many offered at a briefing to promote road safety for the Christmas and new year period.