Speed camera vans will be operating in hundreds of new locations all over the country starting this morning.
Gardaí are increasing the number of areas where drivers' speed is being monitored after reviewing nearly a decade of data.
Safety Camera Expansion 2020 will come into effect from 6am on the 17th February 2020.
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From this morning, GoSafe vans will be parking up at 903 new locations Ireland to watch out for speeding drivers.
The monitoring network is being expanded, with over 1,300 stretches of road now marked for enforcement.
Nearly six hundred locations are being removed after a review to concentrate on new areas identified as "high risk."
The study has revealed the twenty worst roads in the country for crashed are all located in Dublin. The route with the most collisions was the R111, running between Islandbridge and Irishtown, with 118 crashes over 3 years.
Two fatal crashes and eighteen serious accidents were recorded between 2016 and 2018 according to the Herald.
Over 1.5 million speeding tickets have been issued in the decade since the vans were first brought in.
However Gardaí say the real measure of success is falling road deaths, which have decreased by around a quarter since then.
They have dropped from 415 in 2000 to 148 in 2019.
