Major alert for road users as static safety camera on busy stretch operational from TODAY
ROAD users have been given a major alert as a static speed camera will be operational on a busy road from today onwards.
It comes as part of an initiative by
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The new initiative aims to target speeding
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Speed Cameras Save Lives is a new initiative by Gardai
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The speed camera will be in place on the N25 in Co
The national road is a busy stretch which connects
Earlier this year, the area was called a "death trap" at a meeting of local residents.
One member of the organising committee, nurse Bernie Mullally said: "It's absolutely crazy how many lives have been taken on that road, and to still have no measures put in place by any of the authorities, despite over a 360 percent increase in road users since the last traffic survey.
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"The only way the people of
"Year on year this 5km narrow corridor has been the scene of numerous road traffic accidents and fatalities and is certainly not fit for purpose in its current state."
She finished by saying that "we need to wake up and do something about it".
In respsone to the news, one person on
It's a dangerous road with many houses, roads and farm access on both side of the road between the roundabout at Slieverue and the roundabout in Glenmore.
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You are literally a sitting duck sitting on the road waiting to turn off the N25,with bearly any
room for vehicles to pass on the inside.
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More than 80 people have been killed on the road in the last 40 years.
And this year alone, two women were killed on the N25.
Meanwhile last year, 174 people were killed on Irish roads.
The new speeding camera aims to enforce road rules and catch drivers in the act of speeding.
Anyone caught speeding will be issued a fixed point penalty fine.
It comes as part of a "Safety Cameras Save Lives" initiative by Gardai, where individual roads were assessed by collision and speed data.
A static speed camera is one that is fixed in place to record a driver's speed in one particular spot.
Gardai took to
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Someone commented: "Great job! Install more of them, everywhere. Even in rural areas.
"You need to make reckless idiots, who treat roads like racetracks and disregard every rule, basic decency, and respect for animals and people, lose the desire to drive."
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The new camera comes as part of a Garda initiative
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A new stationary speed camera will be operational from today
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