Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion

Ms Paula Hilman:

A total of 14 out of 83. We are looking at tasking, and I talked earlier about the operational plan which is reviewed and issued quarterly. It used to be issued annually but now we issue it quarterly to take into account what we are seeing in order that we can tell our roads policing members what times they need to be out, and where and when. That is our own initial analysis. Another thing we have done this year to try to get that understanding - and the chief superintendent, Mr. Hennebry, tasked this piece of work with our forensic collision investigators who go to the scene of every fatal road traffic collision - is we looked at what they and their initial analysis see as the contributory factors to fatal road traffic collisions this year. The initial assessment on the first review is that 29% of fatal road traffic collisions have been reported as having speed as a contributory factor. That is 29%. I am not sure if members have seen it. We were asked by the Ministers to look at some immediate actions that could be done. We started a social media campaign last weekend asking everyone to slow down. We have reached out to well-known sports people, some television people and also local people within local communities and the message is very clear: "please slow down". We know if you reduce your speed by 5%, we could reduce fatal road traffic collisions by 30%. That message about "please slow down" is ongoing. Will Mr. Hennebry give the outreach we have had for that campaign?

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