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So much of road safety centres around persuading people to slow down. Rightly so; speed does indeed kill. In ordinary circumstances any given human mistake and any given collision will be made much worse by excessive speed.

Women are far more likely to get stressed out while driving than their male counterparts, the results of the latest AA poll suggest.

Women are far more likely to get stressed out while driving than their male counterparts, the results of the latest AA Motor Insurance poll would suggest.

A student who overtook a car in the slow lane was before Claremorris District Court this week where he faced a careless driving charge.

Cllr Catherine Connery proposed a motion at the recent Ballyragget electoral area council meeting, calling on Kilkenny County Council to provide "passing bays", where appropriate and where possible on all rural roads in north Kilkenny. The motion was proposed and agreed in light of the fact that a disproportionate number of serious traffic accidents occur on rural roads.

A man from Achill who was observed overtaking vehicles on a continuous white line was convicted and fined by Judge Mary Devins at Ballinrobe District Court on Friday.

A Castlebar man was convicted and fined €150 at Ballina District Court this week for dangerous overtaking in his mini bus.

A lorry driver, with a large load of logs and a trailer attached, who tailgated a bus — carrying 20 school children — dangerously overtook the bus while was there was oncoming traffic, and then cut directly in front of the bus, causing the bus to swerve onto the hard shoulder, was disqualified from driving by Judge Mary Devins at Castlebar District Court on Wednesday for the incident which she described as “so shocking”.

A Claremorris man who gardaí saw overtaking a van on a continuous white line while approaching a bend was before Judge Denis McLoughlin at Belmullet District Court on Wednesday.