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Article: Road deaths total 127 in first six months of the year, figures reveal
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- The Irish Times
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- July 2, 2009
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A TOTAL of 127 people were killed on the roads in the first six
months of the year, down by 14 on the same period last year, figures
released yesterday by the Road Safety Authority (RSA) reveal.
However, road deaths in March, April and May were up by more than
a third compared with the same period in 2008, which, RSA chief
executive Noel Brett said, was a "worrying trend".
Men made up the vast majority (80 per cent) of those killed,
while almost a third of all drivers killed were aged between 17 and
25. Men and young drivers remained a "particularly vulnerable"
category, the RSA said.
More than half of all fatal crashes took place at the weekend,
with late Saturday night into early Sunday ...