Tipperary Gardaí are stepping up their campaign to get people to arrive alive as the Easter Bank Holiday exodus gets underway.
The county has the highest level of road fatalities so far this year while the second worst speeding offence in Ireland during the first three months of the year was detected in Cahir.
11 lives were cut short on Tipperary roads in the space of a hundred or so days this year – leaving dozens of families, friends and neighbours devastated by their loss.
To try and prevent further carnage the Gardaí have been stepping up their visibility in the county – both north and south through a series of targeted operations, including a crack down on drink driving, the use of a mobile phone while driving and excessive speed- the biggest killer on Tipperary's rural roads.
Figures released by the Gardaí and the Road Safety authority show that one of the Ireland's worst speeding offence was detected here- a driver clocked doing a 189 km/h in a hundred km zone on the R639 in Cahir.
An additional Garda Robot Van has also been dispatched to the county for two months while extra traffic corp Gardaí have been drafted in from neighbouring counties to monitor driver behaviour.
And today members of the Garda corp along with community Gardaí will be at the Showgrounds Shopping Centre in Clonmel handing out high-vis jackets and educating the public of the potential dangers they face every day if they fail to drive with due care.
