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Wrong-way driving most common on M50 and M7

Situations where vehicles are found driving on the wrong side of a motorway set to reach record high this year

By Hugh Dooley
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#2835
First seen
26 Aug 2026, 05:13 UTC
Last checked
26 Aug 2026, 17:44 UTC
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2 versions
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3cc5e0fdf18f...df1816
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Publisher
The Irish Times
Country
Ireland
Source published
26 Aug 2026, 05:00 UTC
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Byline
Hugh Dooley
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Situations where vehicles are found driving on the wrong side of a motorway set to reach record high this year
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    Wrong-way driving most common on M50 and M7

    Situations where vehicles are found driving on the wrong side of a motorway set to reach record high this year

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    Initial capture

    M50 and M7 have had the highest number of wrong-way driving incidents since 2019

    Situations where vehicles are found driving on the wrong side of a motorway set to reach record high this year

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#2658
Observed
26 Aug 2026, 06:28 UTC
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200 / parsed
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654,917 bytes, private gzip evidence
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