HOLIDAY SEASON DEATHS
EIGHT KILLED SINCE FRIDAY (From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON, December 23/ The Christmas holiday season has started disastrously. Eight persons were killed on New Zealand roads between Friday and 9 o’clock this evening. The Transport Department’s figures, made after Dominion-wide radio and telephone conversations, includes the head-on crash between two cars on the Dunedin-Christchurch road last night, in which three people were killed. The department’s officer on duty at headquarters tonight reported a strong flow of traffic throughout the Dominion today. Heavier traffic is expected tomorrow. The main faults of motorists so far have been failure to keep to the left and risky overtaking. Several of the many caravans on the roads today were “booked” by inspectors for failing to keep as far as practicable to the left of the road.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28159, 24 December 1956, Page 10
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