Billy Kelleher says current penalties fail to adequately reflect the gravity of the offence.
There's a call for deliberately driving the wrong way on a motorway to be treated as 'attempted murder'.
It follows the crash on the M9 last weekend.
Three Midlands women and a 7 year old boy are still in hospital following the crash in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The Carlow sisters and the child were on their way to Dublin airport when they were hit by a car travelling in the wrong direction at high speed on the M9 near Moone.
Five teenage boys in that vehicle were all pronounced dead at the scene.
It led to concerns about social media posts featuring so called 'wrong way' collisions.
Now an MEP has called for deliberately driving the wrong way on a motorway to be treated as 'attempted murder'.
Billy Kelleher says current road traffic penalties don't reflect the seriousness of the offence.
He says anyone deliberately driving the wrong way puts lives at such obvious risk, and it should be treated as a serious criminal act.
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