Last year, with a population of nearly 67 million people, 1792 road deaths occurred on English roads, which carried approximately 41 million cars.
New Zealand roads carried approximately four million vehicles last year, with a road toll of 380 and a population of 4.476 million.
Can anyone else see the disproportionate figures here and do they wonder, like me, what the hell is wrong with New Zealand drivers?
Every day we take our lives in our hands when we hit the road, with trucks rearing straight through roundabouts, not giving way at intersections, without a glance to see if there is anything in the roundabout. Anyone using the Moffat Road roundabout will probably have had a near miss there.
Tailgaters abound and speed is the norm. On TV recently we saw a police car being driven at 146km an hour chasing a car that was passing cars in a dangerous manner. The danger was there for every innocent driver that was involved in dangerous overtaking manoeuvres and that chase ended in a crash. Doesn't life in New Zealand have any value at all?
A Bourne, Bethlehem.
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A Bourne.........
Posted on 28-07-2018 11:48 | By groutby
....your last sentence would at least appear to have a 'NO' wouldn't it?....at very least it seems we as a country are not mature enough (still) to be able to follow certain rules for which (the ones which have) we signed up for on achieving a NZ drivers licence...let's call these rules THE LAW. Now the foot has been very noticeably 'taken off the throat' by way of Policing and enforcing the laws, breaking them is a pastime for many, yes leading to avoidable ever increasing incidents some with really bad consequences. Easy example in the insane re-routing of traffic affecting the new Welcome Bay underpass, dodgy erratic manouvres, running red lights (continuosly, now a sport) and just generally being part of a 'Wild West movement now sweeping Tauranga.....no consequences...say again, NO CONSEQUENSES....so it goes on...
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