Drivers are being urged to slow down this Bank Holiday weekend.
There have been 13 more deaths on our roads compared to this time last year.
153 people have been killed in road traffic collisions to date.
Gardai and the RSA are appealing to motorists to observe the speed limits.
Interim CEO of the RSA John Caulfield says that nobody wants to see deaths on our roads:
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