Letter to the Editor: Looking in wrong place for answers on fatalities

On January 2, 2020, Jess Casey outlined in the Irish Examiner the details of fatalities on our roads, which saw a “worrying increase” in the number of drivers killed in crashes in 2019.

It is 151 years since police in Ireland investigated the death of Margaret Ward in the world’s first road fatality in 1869, and 98 years since gardaíinvestigated 51 road fatalities in 1922, when there were approximately 10,000 cars and 8,0000 motor cycles in Ireland.