Road traffic offending has reached epidemic proportions, says Cork judge

The defendant was banned from driving for six years and sent to prison

Mallow District Court heard that the accused was stopped by a garda patrol in Charleville where he was found to be driving without valid motor tax or insurance. File photo

The volume of road traffic prosecutions coming before the district court appears to be reaching epidemic proportions, according to a Cork judge who sentenced a man for his sixth conviction for driving without insurance.

At a recent sitting of Mallow District Court, Judge Colm Roberts said: “I don’t know if it’s just this district but it looks to me like there is an epidemic of road traffic offending. I just don’t understand it.”