The INEC Killarney was the venue for a two-day road safety conference, ‘Safer Roads,’ on Wednesday and Thursday.

Hosted by Kerry County Council, the event focused on enhancing road safety, decreasing traffic incidents, and sharing effective practices for safer road use.

The conference brought together road safety and transportation experts, government and local authority officials, roads policing, vehicle inspection agencies, advocates, educators, collision responders, cycling bodies, and community safety networks. Attendees discussed research, strategies, technologies, and policies aimed at reducing collisions, fatalities, and injuries.

Topics covered included AI for distracted driving, transport trends, driving licence systems, forensic collision investigation, and the impact of social media sharing of collision responses.

Almost 300 delegates and speakers from Ireland, the UK, New Zealand, and Estonia attended.

Kerry’s Road Safety Officer Declan Keogh explained that the conference addressed how technology, human behaviour, enforcement, and education intersect to improve road safety for all road users.

Speaking to the Killarney Advertiser he said: “It was a great success, our first time doing it but we hope to make it annual event and make it even bigger in the future.”