Man arrested after testing positive for cocaine while driving 106 km/h in a 50 km/h zone

Eva Osborne

A man was detected by Longford Roads Policing Unit doing 106 km/h in a 50 km/h zone close to a primary school in Longford.

He tested positive for cocaine and cannabis and was arrested.

In the first ten hours of National Slow Down Day, GoSafe checked the speeds of 112,581 vehicles and detected 189 vehicles travelling in excess of the applicable speed limit.

Gardaí said this figure will be higher when An Garda Síochána personnel detections, which are not available at the moment, are included with the GoSafe detections.

Examples of high speeds detected by GoSafe include:

• 137 km/h in an 80 km/h zone on the N4 Lucan, Dublin;
• 122 km/h in an 80 km/h zone on the R680 Waterford, Waterford;
• 139 km/h in a 100 km/h zone on the N11 Newcastle, Wicklow.

Also, gardaí from Birr detected a motorist traveling at a speed of 97 km/h in a 50 km/h zone through Cloghan, Co Offaly.

Gardaí in Mayo stopped a motorist for driving at 107 km/h in a 60 km/h zone in Ballina, Co. Mayo.