Mother’s fight for safe vehicles - Car tests not fit for purpose

If there is an area in which an argument for more, not less, harmonisation of regulations across the European Union, it’s the one that can be made for a change that would give drivers the best possible guarantee that when they buy a car of four years and older is in a roadworthy condition.

The death of a 27-year-old woman following a crash in Cork in 2012 highlights the problem in a system not fit for purpose.