Cork Road Safety Working Together Group Local Road Safety Plan
primary schools and the Gardaí, through their school’s programme, will reinforce these messages of road safety.
The RSA’s Check it Fits service is a full-time, nationwide, free, expert service which travels around the country, with experts demonstrating how to fit child car seats correctly and answering any questions.
Motorcyclists
Motorcyclists are over-represented in collision statistics in Ireland. They account for less than 2% of licensed vehicles but approximately 10% of road deaths. Motorcyclists are six times more likely to be killed on Irish roads than any other road user.
Of the people who lost their lives on Cork Roads during the period 2017 to 2020 motorcyclists
accounted for 83 .
5.3 Collision Statistics
National Statistics for the life of the last Road Safety Strategy
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