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A hard-hitting road safety show to alert young people to the human cost of dangerous driving will take place at the Royal Theatre, Castlebar, on Thursday, February 7, at 10.45am.

You didn’t realise it, but an MP3 player can kill you. The road safety office of Mayo County Council highlighted the dangers of what it calls “iPod oblivion/zombie alert,” which it describes as “a trance-like or zombie state entered by the fashion of some people using MP3 players, phones and electronic organisers on the move,” and which it believes is a contributory factor to many of the pedestrian/cyclist deaths in the Ireland each year. There were 28 pedestrians and eight cyclists killed on Irish roads in 2012. It is not known how many of these cases were caused by people listening to music because the Department of Transport and the Gardaí do not have this information at their disposal.

Mayo County Council is launching a major new road safety campaign to tackle disruptive car parking that is endangering pupils’ lives at local schools.

The Saturday Forum programme on CRC 102.9 fm this week is devoted to a discussion on road safety. Presenter Stephen Burns will have a number of guests in studio including Noel Brett, chief executive, Road Safety Authority, Garda Sergeant Donie Duignan, Mayo Divisional Traffic Corps, and Michael Mongan, senior roads engineer, Mayo County Council.