National Slowdown Day is underway, with extra speed checks taking place on roads across Waterford today.
It started at 7 this morning and ends at 7 tomorrow morning.
One of the detections so far today was a driver doing 116 in a 100 kilometre per hour zone on the n25 near Kilmeaden.
Gardaí say the aim of Slowdown Day is to get people to be more aware of the speeds they do and to reduce the number of speed-related collisions.
In the first 2 hours of the 24 hour National Slow Down Day, GoSafe checked the speed of 19,246 vehicles and detected 153 vehicles travelling in excess of the applicable speed limit.Examples of motorists putting themselves and others at risk include:• 88km/h in a 50km/h Zone on the Coolock Lane Dublin17 Dublin• 135km/h in a 80km/h Zone on the N4 Ballydowd Lucan Dublin• 76km/h in a 50km/h Zone on the N6 Baile An Phoill Gaillimh Gaillimh• 132km/h in a 100km/h Zone on the N4 Greatdown The Downs Westmeath• 75km/h in a 60km/h Zone on the Clones Road Monaghan Monaghan• 94km/h in a 80km/h Zone on the N25 Castleredmond Midleton Cork• 117km/h in a 100km/h Zone on the N71 Ballynagrumoolia Waterfall Cork• 116km/h in a 100km/h Zone on the N25 Kildermody Kilmeaden Waterford• 110km/h in a 100km/h Zone on the N24 Woodrooff Clonmel Tipperary• 131km/h in a 120km/h Zone on the M7 Cherryville Kildare Kildare
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