Driver caught speeding at 194km/h as almost 500 people caught on National Slow Down Day

The Slow Down Day is a nationwide initiative alongside the Road Safety Authority (RSA) aimed at promoting safer driving behaviour.

Gardaí’s 24-hour operation, in place until 7:00am tomorrow morning, centres on high visibility speed enforcement activity across the road network.

“There’s nothing pleasant about the scenes we respond to which have been caused by speed or other dangerous driving practices,” gardaí said.

“Slow Down Day is about reminding motorists to please lower your speed and drive with full attentiveness.”

‘GoSafe’ cameras checked the speeds of 115,017 vehicles as of Friday evening around 5pm, and caught 174 drivers.

These safety cameras operate in areas where there is a history of speed related collisions known as speed enforcement zones.

Already 308 vehicles travelling in excess of the applicable speed limit have been caught by officers.

This brings the total number of speed detections between 7am and 5pm to 482.

Gardaí caught a driver travelling at 194km/h in a 100km/h zone on the N25 in Loughaderry, Castlemartyr, Co Cork.

While another motorist was caught travelling at 112km/h in a 50km/h zone on the Main Street, Charleville, Co Cork.

Another driver was caught driving at 87km/h in a 50km/h zone on the Swords Road, Dublin 9.

Whilst another was caught driving at 78km/h in a 50km/h zone on the N84 in Cloonboo, Co Galway.

“An Garda Síochána would like to thank drivers for their compliance during National Slow Down Day, making Irish roads safer for all road users,” said gardaí.

“We continue to appeal to drivers to comply with speed limits in order to reduce the number of speed related collisions, save lives and reduce injuries on our roads.”