171 motorists detected above the speed limit in the first two hours of National Slow Down Day
A motorist in Cork was detected travelling 75km/h in a 60km/h Zone in Glounthaune this morning
A driver in Dublin was detected going 129 kilometres per hour in a 100 kilometre zone
Gardaí say a 1% reduction in speed can result in a 4% reduction in the number of fatalities.
Last year there were 148 deaths on Irish roads - 20 of those fatalities were on Cork roads.
Chief superintendent at the Garda National Traffic Bureau, Ray McMahon explains what they have seen over the past month:
"If you look at the last month alone, you look right across our country and our different speed limits and you see the type of behaviour that we want to stop. You know, you go to Kildare and you see somebody driving a car at 201 kilometres in a 120 kilometre speed zone. You go to Donegal and 184 in a 100 kilometre speed zone, right down into Longford 148 in a 50 kilometre speed zone, they're all in the last month alone."
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