Technical hitch hinders garda detections of speeding offences in city

Galway Bay fm newsroom – A technical hitch resulted in a drop in the detection of speeding offences in the city during the first ten months of this year.
That’s according to Chief Superintendent of Galway garda division, Tom Curley.
He was presenting the latest garda figures on Road Traffic Offences at a meeting of the City Joint Policing Committee this week.
There was one fatal crash in the city area up to the end of October this year, while collisions resulting serious injury doubled this year from 2 to 4, compared to the same period last year.
The number of speeding offences detected is what drew the attention of most members of the committee.
Between Janaury and October last year, there were more than 6 and a half thousand incidents recorded, compared to just over 2 and a half thousand this year.
Chief Superintendent Curley explains that the drop in speeding detections was due to a technical hitch which has now been resolved.
Meanwhile, there was a drop of almost 40 per cent in Mandatory Alcohol Checkpoints by gardaí in the city in the first ten months of this year.
The JPC was told that gardaí are finding alternative policing methods to detect drink driving offences.
Chief Superintendent Curley says people are still breaking the law in the city in terms of consuming alcohol and then driving.