Irish Examiner view: How to kill the need for speed

Ireland is supposed to have a plan to deal with this. It is called Vision Zero, with an initial goal of halving road fatalities in the Republic within seven years

While this depressing toll illustrates that there are thousands of reckless drivers on our roads, unbundling the figures shows that there are some who should not be behind the wheel at all.

The lower the speeds people drive at, the lower the number of road deaths. That was the view of the senior garda, an assistant commissioner, in charge of traffic safety in the spring. The trouble is, nobody seems to have been listening.

The latest figures from An Garda Síochána’s Christmas enforcement operation make miserable reading.