Roads in Dublin and Midlands among safest in the EU

Munster is less safe statistically than Dublin, the Midlands and the West. File Picture

Ireland as a whole is below the European average when it comes to deaths on the road, but Munster is less safe statistically than Dublin, the Midlands and the west of the country.

Those are some of the findings from Eurostat's latest data on road deaths across the EU, which found that Province Luxembourg in southern Belgium and the Portuguese island of Madeira were the most dangerous when it came to fatalities.