{"id":14549,"date":"2024-01-10T15:48:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T15:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=14549"},"modified":"2024-01-10T15:48:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T15:48:39","slug":"road-deaths-in-ireland-increased-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/road-deaths-in-ireland-increased-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Road deaths in Ireland increased in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of road deaths in Ireland in 2023 increased by 19 percent compared to the previous year, according to provisional figures from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsa.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Road Safety Authority<\/a> (RSA).<\/p>\n<p>A total of 184 people died in 173 fatal collisions in 2023 compared to 155 deaths in 149 collisions in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsa.ie\/docs\/default-source\/road-safety\/r2---statistics\/rrd_res_20240101_endofyearreport_final-1jan.pdf?sfvrsn=dcaaac58_5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The latest figures<\/a> were published by the Road Safety Authority, following an analysis of provisional fatal collision reports from An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na.<\/p>\n<p>They reveal a high proportion of male fatalities, a continuation of 2022\u2019s increased level of pedestrian fatalities and a high number of fatalities taking place at night when there is less traffic on the roads.<\/p>\n<p>Top line statistics for 2023 include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The majority of fatalities were male 78 percent (144), and 22 percent (40) were female.<\/li>\n<li>The number of pedestrian fatalities is slightly above 2022 (+1).<\/li>\n<li>Almost half of fatalities occurred between 8pm and 8am, compared with 35 percent in 2022, despite lower traffic volumes during these hours.<\/li>\n<li>Over a quarter of fatalities were aged 16-25 years, compared with 16 percent in 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Almost half (46 percent) of fatalities occurred between Friday and Sunday, where known.<\/li>\n<li>There were 34 passenger fatalities in 2023, representing 18 percent of the total road deaths that occurred in 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of the 184 road deaths in 2023, 69 were drivers, 44 were pedestrians, 34 were passengers, 26 were motorcyclists, eight were cyclists and three were e-scooter users. Compared to 2022, there was an increase in fatalities among all road user groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is with great sadness that we acknowledge the tragic loss of life on Ireland\u2019s roads in 2023,\u201d said Liz O\u2019Donnell, Chairperson for the RSA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a difficult year in road safety. People are carrying huge grief with them; a grief that doesn\u2019t go away and a void that cannot be filled in their lives. Any one life lost is one too many.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of road deaths in Ireland in 2023 increased by 19 percent compared to the previous year, according to provisional figures from the Road Safety Authority (RSA). A total of 184 people died in 173 fatal collisions in 2023 compared to 155 deaths in 149 collisions in 2022. The latest figures were published by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":14550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14549","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\/14549","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}