GARDAÍ carrying out an anti-speeding operation over the Easter Bank Holiday Weekend stopped a driver in Limerick going 65km/h over the legal limit.
That’s according to a Garda statement following a nationwide Garda Roads Policing Operation from Thursday last (April 17) to this Tuesday morning (April 22).
Gardaí stopped a driver going 165km/h in a 100km/h zone under the operation on the N18 at Ballinacurra in Limerick City.
This comes as three road deaths were recorded over the Easter weekend, including the death of a motorcyclist in his 20s in a collision in Ardagh, County Limerick, on Monday.
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2,800 drivers were detected for speeding offences over the weekend, including 225 mobile phone offences, 160 unaccompanied learner drivers, and 73 found not to be wearing seatbelts.