The Road Safety Authority is calling for increased penalty points for dangerous driving after it was revealed that the death toll on Irish roads is up 45% on the same period in 2019
The call comes as three year old girl in Portlaoise became the second toddler to die on the nation's roads in less than 24 hours.
A three year old boy and his grandparents were killed in a crash in Cashel on Tuesday night, just 30 kilometres from where four young people were killed in Clonmel last Friday.
10 people have lost their lives on Cork roads so far this year.
Chairwoman of the RSA Liz O'Donnell says in the first eight months of this year there has been an average of one death on the nations roads every two days
Speaking to RedFM News she says it's time the rising death toll was halted and put into reverse:
"We've done it before, we have halved road deaths. So we want to continue to down that downward trend. And with this awful spike that has happened to this year, we have to actually see that as a wake up call, and so that everybody galvanizes themselves, to commit themselves to behave better on the roads."
