Susan Gray, founder of Culdaff-based group Public Against Road Carnage PARC, has told the ‘Journal’ bureaucratic procrastination is costing lives.

Despite a vigorous campaign, and the agreement from government chiefs, to bring about compulsory testing of alcohol at accident scenes and lowering of the drink drive limit, Susan said the plight has fallen on death ears.

PARC were promised the new laws would be published before the Dail went into recess, back in July.

In a letter to the government, furious PARC said the ‘democracy in Ireland is in crisis’.

They said: “Innocent people have been killed for years and are still being killed on our roads and many more have been and continue to be very seriously injured, yet many of those who have been responsible for their deaths and injuries may have been over the legal limit but got away without being tested.

“There is a simple explanation for this inequality and that is that we do not have compulsory testing of surviving drivers.