Stay safe on the roads this Bank Holiday weekend.
While road safety is paramount at all times, there is a particular onus on preaching the need to stay safe on Bank Holiday weekends, which often prove to be the most dangerous when it comes to fatalities on Irish roads.
According to the Road Safety Authority (RSA), six people have been killed and 33 people have been seriously injured during the October Bank Holiday Weekend in the last five years and the RSA and An Garda Síochána are urging road users to be safe and be seen this weekend.
Irish data analytics company Idiro Analytics conducted a study in an attempt to “shed some light on some of the details of road safety statistics that can usually be overlooked or misinterpreted, leading to the wrong conclusions”.
In doing so, they discovered that while Dublin (46) and Cork (35) have had more fatalities than any other counties in the past two years, they are not the most dangerous counties when factors such as the length of road in each county, the number of vehicles on the roads, the average distance travelled and total population sizes are taken into account.
By analysing those factors and by considering causes such as access to public transport and the quality of roads in terms of 'routine maintenance', 'surface restoration' and 'road reconstruction' required, Idiro found that
Longford and
Monaghan were the counties with the most dangerous roads in Ireland.
The data used to arrive at the results makes for very interesting reading and you can check out in greater detail
here.
Idiro have invited anybody who finds an interest in these figures to contact them with questions or to discuss any part in detail in the hope that the information can lead to safer Irish roads.
