Road deaths: 'I've found victims still holding mobile phones'

Emergency medicine consultant Jason van der Velde said: ‘It must become socially unacceptable to use your phone while driving.’

Mobile phone use while driving must become socially unacceptable before Ireland can turn the tide on road deaths, a leading medic has said.

Jason van der Velde, a prehospital emergency medicine and critical care retrieval physician at Cork University Hospital, spoke out as it was revealed that over 750 motorists were detected speeding yesterday despite the recent spate of road deaths.