Keeping up the momentum

While the dramatic fall in road deaths over the past six years has been impressive, we face a harder task to maintain progress under the latest strategy, writes Seán McCárthaigh.

BY THE most obvious standard — the annual number of road fatalities — the 2007-2012 road safety strategy has been an overwhelming success.

A total of 338 people were killed on Irish roads in the year it was launched. By 2012, the figure had fallen to 162.