Irish Examiner view: Driving home the message on road safety

Henry Kiely was jailed for five and a half years. Picture: North West Newspix

Henry Kiely was jailed for five and a half years. Picture: North West Newspix

The justice system and community-wide efforts to improve road safety have been undermined by an almost institutionalised inability to enforce some of the sanctions imposed by one court or another on deviant, dangerous drivers.

This has been a dispiriting process for the gardaí who enforce legislation and those who try to change our culture around road usage.

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