asked the Minister for Justice each year since 1948 (the date of the decision in Attorney General v. Dunleavy) to date (a) the number of deaths which have occurred by reason of negligence or other misuse in connection with mechanically propelled vehicles, (b) the number of cases in which it was ruled that no preliminary court investigation in respect of such deaths should take place, (c) of such cases which did come before a court for preliminary investigation the number sent forward for trial on a charge of manslaughter, (d) of those so sent forward for trial the number in which the Judge ruled that there was no case proper for consideration for the jury, (e) of those left to the jury, (i) the number decided by the jury in favour of the accused and (ii) the number resulting in conviction, (f) in respect of those convicted the number in which sentences of imprisonment were imposed (indicating in each case the term of such imprisonment) and (g) the number of cases in which there was (i) at the preliminary investigation and/or (ii) at the jury trial any allegation of drunkenness on the part of the driver or passengers.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Negligent Use of Mechanically-Propelled Vehicles: Court Cases.
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The figures of fatal traffic accidents are published annually both in the Statistical Abstract and in the Statistics of Traffic Accidents compiled by the Commissioner, Garda Síochána, copies of which are laid on the Table of the House. The figures of prosecutions for manslaughter in road traffic cases and the results of these prosecutions are published in the annual Report of the Commissioner, Garda Síochána, on Crime, copies of which also are laid on the Table of the House.
Most of the information sought is included in those figures. It would not be possible, at any rate without the expenditure of an inordinate amount of time and labour, to obtain the additional details asked for in the Question.