IEThe Irish Times
Wrong-way driving ‘out of control’ amid 32% rise in incidents detected in 2026
Nearly two detections of wrong-way driving every week
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- First seen
- 24 Aug 2026, 05:09 UTC
- Last checked
- 25 Aug 2026, 04:56 UTC
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- 2 versions
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Publisher layer
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- Publisher
- The Irish Times
- Country
- Ireland
- Source published
- 24 Aug 2026, 05:00 UTC
- Source updated
- No update timestamp supplied
- Byline
- Hugh Dooley
- Section
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Nearly two detections of wrong-way driving every week
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Wrong-way driving ‘out of control’ amid 32% rise in incidents detected in 2026
Nearly two detections of wrong-way driving every week
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Wrong-way driving ‘out of control’ amid 32% rise in incidents detected in 2026
Nearly two detections of wrong-way driving every week
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Evidence layer
Capture provenance
- Capture ID
- #1886
- Observed
- 24 Aug 2026, 05:54 UTC
- HTTP result
- 200 / parsed
- Raw payload
- 883,936 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
- Public boundary
- metadata and excerpt