It’s time to make Irish roads even safer

Road safety strategies may reduce deaths, but injury numbers are too high, says EU commissioner Siim Kallas.

TRAVELLING on Irish and European roads has become far less of a life-threatening prospect over the last decade.

The latest European figures show 9% fewer people were killed in road accidents in 2012 than in the previous year. Overall, 2012 marks the lowest number of European road deaths since data began to be collected. But even one death is a death too many.