Renewed calls have been made for road safety education to be rolled out in Clare schools.
It follows two new Road Safety Authority reports which show that 2% of fatal collisions involving young drivers, and child casualties recorded since 2021, occurred on Clare roads.
The RSA’s latest analysis reveals ten children have been killed or seriously injured on Clare roads in the past five years.
While 2% of the 178 fatal road traffic collisions involving drivers aged between 17 and 25 also occurred in this county.
The data shows rural roads in rural counties pose a particular risk, with 62% of fatal incidents taking place on local and regional roads.
Chair of Clare’s Local Community Safety Partnership, PJ Ryan, says greater emphasis is needed on raising awareness of the dangers of rural driving.
The vast majority of fatal collisions involving young drivers occurred between 8 o’clock at night and 4 o’clock in the morning.
The RSA data also shows 76 per cent of these collisions happened on roads with speed limits of between 80 and 100 kilometres per hour.
Ennis Fianna Fáil Councillor Clare Colleran Molloy says the level of speeding on Clare’s roads is a major concern.
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