Car manufacturers are being urged to install speed limiting systems as standard in all vehicles.

The Road Safety Authority is hosting a conference today to assess the impact of speed on fatal collisions here.

It is claimed that introducing proper technologies in cars could reduce crashes by 30% and fatalities by 20%.

Professor Oliver Carsten, of the Institute for Transport Studies in the UK says intelligent speed limiters are an effective way to prevent deaths on our roads: “It’s a device in the car, a device from the vehicle manufacturer, that limits your speed to the speed limit on the road.

“So when you enable it you are governed to the current speed limit.

“If you want to push through it you can, but it is a very nice gentle system to keep you below the speed limit.”