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Friday is the worst day of the week for road crash incidents with most occurring on secondary roads, insurance industry research, undertaken as part of Irish Road Safety Week, has confirmed.
It has led to calls for the mandatory fitting of black boxes in the vehicles of all new and first-time drivers for their first two years on the road to encourage safer driving and reduce collisions.
Data from 446 crash incidents recorded using black box intelligence – or GPS telematics devices which monitor speed, braking, acceleration and cornering – show that rush hour on Friday afternoon is the worst time for collisions with 83 recoded and 141 of the 446 on secondary roads.
The research findings come just over a week after Gardai in Kerry – with support from the Road Safety Authority, Kerry County Council, emergency services and the credit union – organised a road safety educational event for over 500 secondary school students at which a re-enactment of a serious road crash was presented to highlight the dangers on the roads.
The event was response to growing public concern over road safety with 188 deaths last year which was an alarming increase of over 20 per cent on 2022 figures.
Of those fatalities, over a quarter of these were in the 16-25 age group.
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