Limerick records third highest amount of road deaths in the country since start of the year

ONLY TWO counties have recorded higher road fatalities than Limerick on Irish roads since the start of the year according to the Road Safety Authority (RSA).

Four out of 45 fatal road collisions in Ireland occurred in Limerick from the start of the year until the end of March.

The two counties that recorded higher road fatalities were Galway with seven and Mayo with eight.

The four Limerick road fatalities include mother of three, Shannen O'Halloran who died following a collision near Pallasgreen in March, Aidan Nestor who died following a collision between a car and a truck outside Rathkeale at the end of February, Cork native, Paddy Hartnett who died following a collision near Ballylanders in January and a man aged in his 40s who died following a collision in Mungret also in January.

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According to the RSA all figures are provisional and subject to change.

Seven counties in Ireland recorded zero deaths on roads this year.

These include Sligo, Leitrim, Cavan, Longford, Roscommon, Kildare and Laois.