Just as we thought we’d escaped the bitter cold, snow and ice of the past few weeks, another Arctic front has started to sweep across the country.
It was an appropriate day for the launch of the annual Christmas and New Year road safety campaign by the Road Safety Authority, in conjunction with the Gardaí.
This year’s [...]
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Stay safe this Christmas – new road safety campaign
Myth busted – sucking copper coins won’t beat breathalyzer test
It was reported on independent.ie that JPR Williams, the legendry Welsh and Lions full-back, bet his bottom dollar, well a few pennies anyway, that he could fool the police who had stopped him for suspected drink driving by sucking on a few copper coins. This popular myth has no scientific backup and it has [...]
AXA sponsors “Impact”, a new Road Safety Awareness documentary series on TV3.
“It’s ironic drink driving did this to me and now I look drunk all the time”. Haunting words from Michilín Feeney, who’s featuring in a TV campaign for Road Safety. Micilín, among others, expresses the heartbreaking human side to road accidents in the poignant 2 part documentary series “Impact” which airs on Monday March 22nd [...]