July 3, 2021 9:00 am
“Bored boy racers” are a “driving rural residents round the bend” through meet-ups and illegal driving stunts, according to Mayo County Council’s road safety officer Noel Gibbons.
Noting that car meet-ups “reminiscent of scenes from Hollywood film franchise the Fast and the Furious, have soared in popularity since the first lockdown, with lives said to be at risk”.
He added that there has also been an increasing number of illegal driving stunts by ‘boy racers’ in industrial estates and on rural roads across the county since the first lock-down, according to road safety officials and An Garda Síochána.
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