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Thousands of people
will be on the move throughout Inishowen this May
Bank Holiday weekend as Gardai warn of increased
checkpoints on the roads.
Sgt. Grace Hennessy of Buncrana Garda Station said
local officers as well as the Garda Traffic Corps
operating out of Burnfoot, would be highly visible
on the roads throughout the peninsula.
"We will have the usual high level of Bank Holiday
activity throughout the region and will be focusing
on drink driving, speeding, the non-wearing of
seatbelts and dangerous driving," she said.
Statistics compiled recently by the Inishowen
Independent show that more than 100 motorists were
arrested on suspicion of drink driving since the
start of the year - more than twice the number
detected in the same period last year.
And while many of the arrests are the result of high
profile Garda road safety campaigns, local officers
say people are still not heeding the warnings about
the dangerous of drink driving.
Among those who will monitor the road safety issue
over this May Bank Holiday will be Donegal County
Council, which launched its three-year Road Safety
Strategy last month in a bid to cut road deaths in
the county.
The launch followed six months of work by the
multi-agency Road Safety Working Group that was
formed following a spate of multi-fatality crashes,
particularly in Inishowen.
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