We need a national road safety plan that isn’t running on empty

EMER Costello had an idea that she wanted to share.

The Labour Party member of the European Parliament wanted to reduce road deaths by introducing an “urgent review and refocus of the road safety strategy following a number of road fatalities over the Bank Holiday”. She claimed that “clearly the campaign to keep deaths off our roads is faltering after so many years of significant progress. It is time to review present policy and to determine why measures which have been previously successful are no longer effective.”

So she sent out a press release to that effect. She lamented that “the tragic death of a man in a stolen taxi crash in North Wall in Dublin yesterday evening brings to four the number of fatalities over the August bank holiday weekend. That is in stark contrast to zero fatalities on the same bank holiday weekend in 2012.” Subsequently another man involved in that theft and crash died from his injuries.