He added that people are surviving accidents now because cars are improving.
Independent TD Michael Healy Rae has once again made controversial comments about drink driving, indicating that he believes garda checkpoints are more useful to deter crime than prevent road deaths.
In the past Healy Rae has called for drink driving permits to be given out in rural areas.
Speaking to Newstalk reporter Richard Chambers, Healy Rae said: “We’ve lost an awful lot of our rural pubs and what has happened is actually wrong because these pubs were providing a great service.
“They were a place in the community where people could come together, play a game of cards, have a bit of enjoyment and have a drink or two.
“When they really got strict on the drink driving laws, there should have been a common sense approach in rural areas whereby people could go out have a glass or two of beer and go away home. There was nothing wrong with it.”
Source: Cliodhna Russell, The Journal, 06/01/16
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