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Nearly 25 thousand people have died on Irish roads over the last 60 years

RedFM News
RedFM News

03:54 16 Nov 2021


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This is the equivalent to the population of Carlow Town.While just under 85 thousand have been seriously injured since records began in 1977.Events will take place across the country this weekend as part of World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.Michael O'Neill's daughter Fiona and her boyfriend were killed in a road crash just yards from their house in Monasterboice, Co Louth, 20 years ago:

"They were due to leave for Australia an hour later we heard it in the house, my wife said somethings after happening up the road, I run up the road and I could see the carnage of everything."

Nearly 25 thousand people have died on Irish roads over the last 60 years

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