'Young drivers should be tested on rural roads as well as urban ones'

Councillors also believe cutting speed limits alone is not the answer amid mounting death toll on roads

Fianna Fáil councillor Michael Looney pointed out that young drivers do not get out into the countryside where they are often confronted with hazards such as overgrown roadside verges.

Young drivers should be tested on narrow country roads and not just urban areas in a move to improve road safety.

That is according to Cork county councillors, who are also demanding that the Government reverse its decision to simply reduce speed limits on many urban and rural routes amid the mounting death toll on the country’s roads.