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19 August 2010
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Mr Noel Dempsey Minister for Transport in a phone call through his spokesperson has informed us that he is working on a solution to the delay in implementing compulsory testing of all drivers involved in injury related crashes and is determined to have an answer in three to four weeks. He has promised to keep us informed.
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10 August 2010
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PARC was notified by Department of Transport that sections 9 and 13 of the Road Traffic Act 2010 relating to compulsory testing of all drivers involved in collisions where injury results will not be implemented until Sept 2011. On the advice of the Attorney General these sections are somehow linked to the reduction in the drink driving limits which are due to come into force at that time. PARC has not been given a satisfactory explaination as to how these two entirely separate matters are related. As far as we are concerned the implementation of the relevant sections on mandatory testing of drivers involved in collisions is in no way linked to the lowering of the drink driving levels. This further procrastination is wholly unacceptable to PARC which has campaigned for the past four years for this law. Now that the law has made it mandatory to test all drivers we are faced with yet another excuse for a delay in its implemention. We have had some horrific collisions in this country in recent times and based on past research findings there is no guarantee that anyone other than the driver who dies at the scene or within three hours of the event will be tested for alcohol as this occurs under a different law which is the Coroner's law. Whose interests are being protected here? How is it that there has been such resistance for so long to a law that is only asking for fair and equitable treatment of all drivers involved in serious and fatal collisions?
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20 July 2010
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President Mary McAleese signs the Road Traffic Act 2010 into law today, making it mandatory to test all drivers involved in collisions where there has been injury (or where injury is claimed to have been caused) or death.
ROAD DEATHS IN DONEGAL
- 56 people under the age of 27 have died on Donegal’s roads in the past five years.
- Figures in June 2010 showed that more people had been killed in Donegal than in any other county so far this year, with 8 people losing their lives on our roads.
- By July 2010 that figure rose to 16 Donegal has the second highest number of serious road crashes, with 2,368 per million compared with 530 per million in the capital.
Inishowen
Over an 18-month period between February 2004 and October 2005, 25 people lost their lives on the Inishowen Peninsula in Co. Donegal.
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12 July 2010
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PARC re-submit request to Garda Commissioner for the abolishment of crash form fees for bereaved families who have lost loved ones in road traffic collisions.
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7th July 2010
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The Road Traffic Bill 2009 was passed in the Dáil tonight. PARC Committee members attended.
Breath testing becomes mandatory at the scenes of injury collision crashes.
The Road Traffic Bill also reduces the blood alcohol limit from its current level of 80mg/100ml to 20mg/100ml for learner, novice and professional drivers, and to 50mg/100ml for other drivers.
Learners and professional drivers caught over the 20mg limit will receive a three month ban.
Other drivers caught over the 50mg limit but under 80mg would receive three penalty points and a €200 fine, if they do not challenge the conviction in court, but they would not receive a driving ban.
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16th June 2010
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PARC members attend Joint Transport Committee debate on amendments of Road Traffic Bill 2009. One of the key issues is mandatory alcohol testing of drivers involved in collisions. Pictured are Donna Price, Susan Gray, Thomas Broughan TD, Ann Fogarty
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3rd June 2010
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PARC Committee members attend Committee Stage of Road Traffic Bill in Oireachtas.
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2nd June 2010
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Fix the Road Traffic Bill ! Loopholes have allowed 9 out of 10 Drivers to 'slip the net '. [More...]
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31st May 2010
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Launch of Re-developed Website at Dublin Castle for parcgroup.ie. [More photos].
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19th May 2010
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PARC Road Safety Group appeared before Transport Committee to discuss Road Traffic Bill 2009 [more...].
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19th May 2010
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PARC Committee Members attend ERSC [European Road Safety Charter] signing ceremony in the European Union House of Dublin. [more...]
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18th May 2010
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PARC Committee Members meeting with Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy and his team in Garda Head Quarters [link to photo].
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8th April 2010
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Irish Medical Organisation AGM - Dr. Declan Bedford calls on the Government to enact the proposed legislation to reduce the legal drink driving limit without delay - to implement legislation for the mandatory testing for alcohol & other substances of all drivers in injury crashes without delay and for legislation to ensure that all persons guilty of drink driving go for mandatory rehabilitation and assessment.
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25th March 2010
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PARC Committee meets Transport Dept. Officials.
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8th March 2010
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Briefing session for Dail Transport Committee members with PARC in Dail Eireann this week.
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3rd March 2010
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Noel Dempsey signs cross border deal on motoring fines. From today motorists from Northern Ireland who earn penalty tickets in the Republic will be chased across the border to pay their fines. The cross-border agreement will also apply to drivers from the Republic who break the law in Northern Ireland.
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24th February 2010
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PARC members speak at RSA Road Safety Officers' Seminar.
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17th February 2010
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PARC members attend Dail for second stage debate - Road Traffic Bill.
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10th February 2010
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A Campaign initiated by a Cyclists group co-ordinated an Open letter to the Press and the Dublin Councillors, garnering support from many civic groups for 30km/h limits in Dublin City. It was issued on Friday February 12th. [More..]
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8th February 2010
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Over 17,000 drivers who have been convicted of serious road traffic offences have escaped punishment by not having the points applied to their licences.
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7th February 2010
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ROAD SAFETY GROUP CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION TO SAVE LIVES
The road safety advocacy group, PARC, has spoken out in anger and frustration at the delay in passing life-saving road safety legislation, and have urged the Minister for Transport to act quickly to prevent more lives being lost on the road. [More...]
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28th January 2010
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Mutual recognition of driving disqualifications between the North and the Republic of Ireland. [More...]
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14th January 2010
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Tinted coloured windows targeted in NCT crackdown. [More...]
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1st January 2010
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Ireland has achieved the lowest number of road deaths since records began in 1959. A total of 241 people lost their lives on the country's roads in 2009. This included 129 drivers and 38 passengers, 40 pedestrians, 27 motorcyclists and seven cyclists. 279 people lost their lives in 2008 … 38 less deaths in 2009. The Road Safety Authority's five year road safety strategy, which had originally targeted a reduction to 252 deaths a year by 2012, has been achieved three years ahead of schedule.
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