Wrong-way driving ‘out of control’ amid 32% rise in incidents detected in 2026

Wrong-way driving on Irish motorways is now “out of control”, gardaí have warned, amid a 32 per cent increase in the number of incidents detected in 2026 so far.Cars have been detected driving the wrong way down motorways 62 times so far this year, against 47 such incidents between January and mid-August 2025, data rel

New data shows that 31 drivers in the past 30 weeks were charged by police with criminal offences involving driving in the wrong direction on the motorways of England and Wales