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Heads Up is a pedestrian safety awareness campaign created to promote safety practices with road users in our community. This campaign reminds pedestrians that distraction can be fatal.

They are hardly what you might call the proverbial boy racer, with more than a quarter of a million mobility scooters on British roads, the number of them here in Ireland has grown. But despite having a top speed of just eight miles per hour, Mayo County Council has become so concerned about the potential for accidents involving mobility scooter drivers, it has decided to offer free training lessons.

Mayo County Council is turning to CCTV in a partnership to stamp out the scourge of boy racers doing doughnuts on public roads endangering their lives and the lives of others. The CCTV cameras are placed with signage at known locations where this behaviour is taking place and the video footage with the offenders on it is forwarded to the gardai, , according to Noel Gibbons road safety officer, who stated: