{"id":33375,"date":"2025-04-19T16:27:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T16:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/33375\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T16:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T16:27:15","slug":"psni-reveals-hundreds-of-drivers-caught-speeding-during-day-long-clampdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/33375\/","title":{"rendered":"PSNI reveals hundreds of drivers caught speeding during day-long clampdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Operation Lifesaver is the PSNI\u2019s new approach to speeding unveiled earlier in the week, with more officers with radar guns deployed and Road Safety Camera Vans across the region.<\/p>\n

Spanning all 11 policing districts, officers conducted almost 260 speeding operations across Northern Ireland on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Police said during the day around 800 motoring offences were detected, of which approximately 700 were specifically for speeding.<\/p>\n

\"Radar<\/p>\n

Radar gun in use (Photo by Peter Morrison)<\/p>\n

Watch: PSNI launch their Operation Lifesaver Campaign <\/p>\n

Since the start of the year, Northern Ireland\u2019s roads have seen 12 fatalities, averaging at a death every 9 days.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the figures, Chief Superintendent Sam Donaldson from the PSNI\u2019s Operational Support Department said: \u201cThese figures show very clearly that there are drivers who are continuing to speed regardless of the potential consequences.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only is that really disappointing, but it\u2019s also very worrying because it shows that far too many drivers are putting their lives and other roads users lives at risk.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year, in 2024, we made around 100,000 speeding detections across Northern Ireland. That is a shocking number of people, who for whatever reason they think is justified, found themselves with a fine and penalty points, or even under arrest and in court.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven more shockingly, a number of drivers have been caught speeding on multiple occasions. Clearly these drivers are not getting the message.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chief Superintendent Donaldson added that \u201cone of the greatest contributions each road user can make is to reduce their speed.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpeeding is a dangerous crime and poses a serious threat to other road users and we, as a Police Service, have a duty to detect those who break the law and deal with any offences.<\/p>\n

“If we all stop speeding, road safety improves, lives can be saved and fewer people have to contend with life-changing injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Operation Lifesaver is the PSNI\u2019s new approach to speeding unveiled earlier in the week, with more officers with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[8819,12,1610,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-33375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-amy-cochrane","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114365572293827425","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}