Gardaí are appealing to motorists to observe National Slow Down Day.
(Source: www.pixabay.com)The latest National Slow Down Day kicked off at 7.00am and will continue until 7.00am on Saturday morning.
Between 7.00 and 8.30am, Gardaí and speed vans checked more than 5,000 vehicles.
Sixty eight were found to be in excess of the speed limit, with one vehicle being driven at almost 90 kilometres per hour in a 50 zone on the Rock road in Dublin 4.
Another vehicle was 17 kilometres over the speed limit on the M7 at Naas in Kildare.
As part of National Slow Down Day speed cameras are on the roads all across Ireland where fatal crashes have happened as a result of speeding.
