The Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland received over 400 claims relating to accidents caused by uninsured and untraced driving in Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal over the last 5 years.
In figures released, a total of 90 claims were made in Sligo during that period with a 27% increase in 2022 on the previous year's total.
11 claims were made in Leitrim in 2020 and 2022, the only times in the five-year period when the number reached double figures, totalling 48.
Donegal, meanwhile, saw the North West's highest figure with 287 claims made across the five-year period.
On a county-by-county basis, the highest total number of claims received were made in Dublin (4,605), 819 in Cork and 617 was the number of claims made in Limerick.
CEO of MIBI, David Fitzgerald has been going through the figures with Ocean FM News:
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