Irish Examiner View: Agencies must share road accident data

The mounting death toll on Irish roads is a crisis which all agencies should try to solve urgently, rather than letting themselves be stymied by regulatory technicalities surrounding GDPR

Garda visibility can act as a deterrent to bad driver behaviours. Picture: Leon Farrell/RollingNews.ie

Garda visibility has been the subject of much debate in recent months, and how much it can act as a deterrent to bad driver behaviours such as speeding, intoxication, and increasingly, cars swerving across lanes while drivers use mobile phones.

The debate has intensified as the numbers being killed on the roads climb higher. At the time of writing, news broke of two more fatalities: A man killed in a crash on the N25 near Midleton, Co Cork, and another near Listowel in Co Kerry.