{"id":10407,"date":"2021-02-05T18:27:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T18:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=10407"},"modified":"2021-02-05T18:27:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T18:27:01","slug":"1-in-4-drivers-and-passengers-killed-on-irelands-roads-not-wearing-seat-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/1-in-4-drivers-and-passengers-killed-on-irelands-roads-not-wearing-seat-belt\/","title":{"rendered":"1 in 4 drivers and passengers killed on Ireland\u2019s roads not wearing seat belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers and passengers in Ireland are being urged to buckle-up on every journey after new statistics showed over a quarter of drivers and passengers killed in road traffic collisions last year were not wearing a seat belt.<\/p>\n<p>The Road Safety Authority (RSA) has made the plea, along with An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na, after carrying out the analysis on provisional garda statistics from 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor most people, putting on their seat belt has become second nature, but as we can see from our analysis of the casualty statistics from 2020, there is still a percentage who don\u2019t,\u201d said Sam Waide, Chief Executive of the RSA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese deaths could have been prevented if drivers and passengers had been wearing a seat belt. I\u2019m asking drivers to make sure they, and any passengers in their car, are wearing a seat belt before starting a journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Between November 2019 and November 2020, 8,770 fixed charge notices were issued by Gardai for seat belt offences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers and passengers in Ireland are being urged to buckle-up on every journey after new statistics showed over a quarter of drivers and passengers killed in road traffic collisions last year were not wearing a seat belt. The Road Safety Authority (RSA) has made the plea, along with An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na, after carrying out the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":10408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}