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19/06/2008
Less Road Deaths - Despite Mum And Baby Tragedy
Despite the recent road tragedy just across the border that left a teenage mum and child dead, it has emerged that NI statistics are actually more positive than the immediate situation appears to suggest.
The number of people killed on Northern Ireland's roads this year so far is down by 17% on the figure for the same period last year, it has been revealed.
Newly appointed NI Environment Minister Sammy Wilson quoted this statistic yesterday as he welcomed a report from the Criminal Justice Inspectorate on road policing.
He said: "Although every death is one too many and an unimaginable tragedy, it is important to remember the number of people killed on the roads last year fell by 10% from the previous year.
"The 2007 figure for Northern Ireland was the lowest since 1947, when there were 75,000 cars on the roads compared with around one million now," he said.
Meanwhile, the funerals of the NI-born mother and daughter - which are due to be held on Friday in Londonderry - will be made all the more poignant because the baby girl killed in the Co. Donegal horror road crash this week is believed to be the youngest ever victim of Ulster's roads.
Three-month-old Neisha Meehan was killed alongside her mother Kerry-Ann (16) when the car in which they were travelling collided with a jeep towing a trailer of sheep on a stretch of road near Letterkenny on Monday night.
Kerry-Ann's boyfriend, and the father of the young child, Christopher Hanlon (18), was last night fighting for his life in hospital in Letterkenny.
(BMcC)
The number of people killed on Northern Ireland's roads this year so far is down by 17% on the figure for the same period last year, it has been revealed.
Newly appointed NI Environment Minister Sammy Wilson quoted this statistic yesterday as he welcomed a report from the Criminal Justice Inspectorate on road policing.
He said: "Although every death is one too many and an unimaginable tragedy, it is important to remember the number of people killed on the roads last year fell by 10% from the previous year.
"The 2007 figure for Northern Ireland was the lowest since 1947, when there were 75,000 cars on the roads compared with around one million now," he said.
Meanwhile, the funerals of the NI-born mother and daughter - which are due to be held on Friday in Londonderry - will be made all the more poignant because the baby girl killed in the Co. Donegal horror road crash this week is believed to be the youngest ever victim of Ulster's roads.
Three-month-old Neisha Meehan was killed alongside her mother Kerry-Ann (16) when the car in which they were travelling collided with a jeep towing a trailer of sheep on a stretch of road near Letterkenny on Monday night.
Kerry-Ann's boyfriend, and the father of the young child, Christopher Hanlon (18), was last night fighting for his life in hospital in Letterkenny.
(BMcC)
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