Road Safety Authority Happy With Decline in Road Deaths

The Road Safety Authority claims that improved driver behaviour is the cause of a decrease in the number of people dying on Irish roads last year.

336 people were killed on the roads in 2007, a 9% decrease on the 365 people who died a year earlier.

A spokesman for the RSA said that random breath testing, tougher penalties for drink driving and more traffic police on the road also contributed to the decline, but emphasised that the primary cause was that drivers were making a conscious effort to behave more responsibly on the roads.