A five-year action plan aiming to improve road safety and reduce deaths and injuries in Kerry has been published.
The plan will run until 2020 and will focus on education, engineering, enforcement and evaluation.
From 2006 to 2015 119 people have died on Kerry’s roads and countless more have been left with life changing injuries.
Between 2011 and 2015 Kerry had the fifth highest number of road deaths at 49.
This plan was a multi-agency project from Kerry County Council, Department of Transport, HSE, Gardai, Road Safety Authority, National Transport Authority and Transport Infrastructure Ireland and a working group has been established.
It says speeding, drink or drug driving, driver fatigue, non-use of seat belts and behaviour by or towards vulnerable road users are the main causes of accidents on Irish roads.
The plan includes road audits, programmes engaging with schools and third level institutes, speed limit reviews, hedge cutting and checkpoints.
