If you’re from Clare, you could probably do with slowing down a little bit.
Almost one in four drivers (23.19%) in the Munster county currently have penalty points on their driving license, a higher percentage than anywhere else in the country.
The figures come from a study in the Irish Times, which ranks the 26 counties in the Republic of Ireland according to the percentage of drivers with penalty points.
Clare has the unwanted position at the top of the list, followed by Wicklow, Kildare, Longford and Roscommon.
At the other end of the scale, meanwhile, Donegal (13.8%) has a smaller percentage of drivers with penalty points, followed by Monaghan, Mayo, Kerry and Galway.
Counties with highest percentage of drivers with penalty points
1. Clare (23.19%)
2. Wicklow (22.71%)
3. Kildare (22.61%)
4. Longford (21.79%)
5. Roscommon (21.08%)
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22. Galway (17.11%)
23. Kerry (15.91%)
24. Mayo (14.51%)
25. Monaghan (14.05%)
26. Donegal (13.8%)
Speeding, not surprisingly, was responsible for three quarters of penalty point offences and there were more people caught for speeding in Wicklow than any other county.
Interestingly, the study also found that road fatalities tended to be higher in counties where there was a lower percentage of drivers with penalty points.
Monaghan, for example, has had more fatal accidents than any other county (13 fatal accidents per 100,000 people), despite the fact that only Donegal has a smaller percentage of drivers with penalty points.
For plenty more interesting information emerging from the study, you can read it in full on the Irish Times here.
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