Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, why Government has not carried out an audit of the role played by road conditions in fatal road traffic accidents, as demanded by me on 24 February 2005, which is needed in view of the gross underestimation, namely 2.8%, of road conditions as the main cause of serious and fatal road traffic accidents. The audit is needed because deaths due to road conditions are totally preventable. People such as Aisling Gallagher from Mayo, Sinéad McDaid from Donegal and the Kentstown bus accident victims would not have died if road conditions were in the state they should have been in.

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