Driver caught doing almost double the speed limit on lethal Tipperary to Kilkenny road

A motorist caught driving nearly double the speed limit on a road near Tipperary was spotted by gardaí during National Slow Down Day on Wednesday.

The dangerous driver was doing a whopping 105km/h in a 60km/h road.

The Freshford road on the Tipperary/Kilkenny border has been the site of multiple crashed in recent years including one just last month where a man in his 60s was rushed to hospital and another in September of last year involving three vehicles.

National Slow Down ran for 24 hours on Wednesday with gardaí catching multiple motorists breaking the speed limits.

The aim of National Slow Down Days is to remind motorists of the dangers of speeding, encourage a national conversation on the impact of speeding, to increase overall compliance with speed limits in place nationwide and to deter and detect those that are intent on driving at excessive or inappropriate speed.

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