The N4 (file pic, for illustration).

Driver doing 151kmh in 100kmh zone on N4 near Mullingar

National Slow Down Day

A driver detected doing 151kmh in a 100kmh zone on the N4 near Mullingar has been highlighted as one of examples of high speeds detected overnight during National Slow Down Day.

Gardaí say that “speed detections during National Slow Down Day show that some are still intent on driving at dangerously high speed”.

“Since Slow Down Day operation began at 7am yesterday, An Garda Síochána detected 689 drivers travelling in excess of the applicable speed limit. Of those detections, more than half (421) drivers were intercepted by gardaí.”

Examples of the high speeds detected overnight include:

• 151kmh in a 100kmh zone on the N4, Clongawny, Mullingar

• 94kmh in a 60kmh zone on the N4, Drishoge, Carrick-On-Shannon, Roscommon

• 110kmh in a 80kmh zone on the N4, Doddsborough, Lucan, Dublin

• 126kmh in a 100kmh zone on the N7, Castlewarden South, Kill, Kildare

• 84kmh in a 60kmh Zone on the N25, Lemybrien, Waterford

• 112kmh in a 80kmh zone on the R430, Drumagh, Crettyyard, Laois.

Chief Superintendent in the Garda National Roads Policing Bureau, Jane Humphries said: “Across all our speed detection systems in place around the county, we are beginning to see some positive indications that drivers are becoming more mindful of the critical need to slow down.

“That said, the number of those who were detected during this National Slow Down Day show that there are some people still intent on driving at dangerously excessive and inappropriate speed.

“These are the people that gardaí are most focused on detecting in order to prevent fatal and serious road traffic collisions. They endanger themselves but they will also potentially kill you or me while driving at high speed.

“Research strongly demonstrates that choosing to drive 10Kmh over the speed limit, thinking that it will get you to your destination in quicker time, is a fallacy. If anything it can only save seconds from your journey so it really is not worth quite possibly loosing your life over.”