The 4km speed tolerance limit over a limit rule is raising its ugly head again, which is an appalling insult to those people who lose family members during any given holiday period.
If the police were concentrating on more serious issues rather than stationary entrapment policies, perhaps less people would die on our roads during peak periods.

Only an idiot will crow about less deaths on the road during last Christmas because of police intolerance and not mention the serious toll the year before when something like 42 died during the same entrapment revenue gathering period, or other holiday weekends when the toll was worse than ever.

It is not the 4km that kills, it's the well over 100km limit like 140km/hr to 150km/hr and more, made obvious by the extent of the damage to cars involved in those crashes. It is high time the revenue gathering was recognised as such and stop blathering on about reducing the road toll.

To reduce the toll more mobile approaches need to be initiated. I have driven from Auckland to Wellington many times and didn't see one patrol car outside of city or town limits, the same driving from Tauranga to New Plymouth or Tauranga to Wellington and back. The problem is lack of mobile policing rather than 4km over a limit.

A Bourne, Bethlehem.