Gardai catch driver outrageously over speed limit after failing to heed warning

Gardai were out in force yesterday cracking down on speeding drivers as part of National Slow Down Day.

The 24-hour operation ended at 7am this morning and 755 motorists were caught speeding across the country.

The highest detection saw a car doing an outrageous speed of 194km/h in a 100km/h zone on the N25 at Loughaderry in Castlemartyr, Co Cork. That’s a shocking 94km/h over the speed limit.

The next highest detection was on the N13 at Teevickmoy in Stranorlar Co Donegal, where a driver was caught doing 132km/h in a 100km/h zone.

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Not too far away, on the N13 at Listellian in Letterkenny, Co Donegal another motorist was clocked doing 127km/h in a 100km/h zone.

Some other notable incidents include:

• 194km/h in a 100km/h Zone on the N25 Loughaderry, Castlemartyr, Cork • 132km/h in a 100km/h Zone on the N13 Teevickmoy, Stranorlar, Donegal • 127km/h in a 100km/h Zone on the N13 Listellian, Letterkenny, Donegal • 127km/h in a 100km/h Zone on the N2 Annamarran, Carrickmacross, Monaghan • 124km/h in a 100km/h Zone on the N25 Kilmacthomas, Waterford • 121km/h in a 100km/h Zone on the N21 Rineroe, Adare, Limerick • 121km/h in a 100km/h Zone on the N11 Mt Kennedy Demesne, Newtownmountkennedy, Wicklow • 117km/h in a 100km/h Zone on the N4 Culleen Beg, Mullingar, Westmeath • 115km/h in a 100km/h Zone on the N18 Clonmoney West, Bunratty, Clare • 115km/h in a 100km/h Zone on the N17 Lurga Upper, Charlestown, Mayo • 115km/h in a 100km/h Zone on the N5 Ballymiles, Swinford, Mayo • 109km/h in a 80km/h Zone on the R314 Rathroeen, Ballina, Mayo • 108km/h in a 80km/h Zone on the R158 Readstown, Trim, Meath • 102km/h in a 80km/h Zone on the R772 Moyne Lower, Enniscorthy, Wexford • 99km/h in a 80km/h Zone on the N55 Lissoy, Glasson, Westmeath • 98km/h in a 80km/h Zone on the R448 Inchaquire, Athy, Kildare • 95km/h in a 80km/h Zone on the R418 Aghanure, Athy, Kildare • 84km/h in a 60km/h Zone on the R139 Belcamp, Dublin 17 • 81km/h in a 60km/h Zone on the N4 Drishoge, Carrick-On-Shannon, Roscommon • 77km/h in a 60km/h Zone on the Monaghan Road, Castleblayney, Monaghan •112km/h in a 50km/h Zone on the Main Street, Charleville, Cork • 87km/h in a 50km/h Zone on the Swords Road, Dublin 9 • 78km/h in a 50km/h Zone on the N84 Castlequarter, Cloonboo, Galway • 69km/h in a 50km/h Zone on the James Larkin Road, Dublin 5 • 65km/h in a 50km/h Zone on the Main Street, Williamstown, Galway • 64km/h in a 50km/h Zone on the Dublin Road, Kilkenny • 63km/h in a 50km/h Zone on the Monivea Road, Galway • 60km/h in a 50km/h Zone on the R742 Parknacross, Courtown, Wexford

In total, gardai checked the speed of over 163,000 vehicles. Of the 755 detections, 530 were intercepted by gardai conducting high-visibility checks, while 225 were recorded by GoSafe.

With hundreds caught speeding in just 24 hours, it would appear that many failed to heed the well-publicised Garda warnings to slow down on National Slow Down Day.

In advance of the operation, gardai used broadcast and print media as well as its social media platforms to spread the message among people of driving safely.

A Garda spokesperson said: “The aim of National Slow Down Day, which is supported by the Road Safety Authority, is to promote safer driving practices among motorists and to encourage all of society to work with us to help prevent road traffic collisions and to ultimately keep communities safe.

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

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