Cullen and Gaybo have lost it as road safety strategy collapses

OF course, drivers are directly responsible for most of the accidents on our roads, not Transport Minister Martin Cullen or Gay Byrne, the man he appointed as head of the Road Safety Authority.

Cullen and Gaybo have lost it as road safety strategy collapses

But it is puerile for them to intimate there is therefore nothing they can do because 90% of the accidents are attributed to driver behaviour.

“If the individual behind the wheel of the car obeys the rules of the road, doesn’t overtake on the white lines or bends, doesn’t drink or take drugs, doesn’t break the speed limit,” Martin Cullen told an RTÉ interviewer, “you and I won’t be having these conversations.”

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