Local MEP describes vote against mandatory motorist medical tests as 'Common Sense'

A local MEP has branded the vote against the introduction of mandatory regular medical tests for motorists as 'common sense'.

It had been proposed that car, tractor and motorcycle drivers should be tested every 15 years, and drivers of trucks and buses every 5 years, in an effort to reduce road deaths.

The EU is aiming to reduce road fatalities by 50 per cent within the next six years.

The proposal failed a vote today in the European Parliament.

Colm Markey, Fine Gael MEP for Midlands-North West, says the decision to vote against the move was obvious: