‘No garda wants to make that call’: Motorists urged to slow down ahead of Easter weekend

Arriving at a family's home to deliver devastatingly bad news is something no garda ever wants to do, said Chief Superintendent Jane Humphries of the Garda National Roads Policing Bureau. Picture: Keith Arkins

Going to a home to deliver the devastating news of a road death is something no garda ever wants to do, said the officer in charge of roads policing in Ireland as she issued a bank holiday road safety plea.

Chief Superintendent Jane Humphries, of the Garda National Roads Policing Bureau, spoke about one of the most difficult parts of the job as new figures show that almost a third of those killed on the roads so far this year were aged under 30.