CHRISTMAS ROAD ACCIDENTS
“OFF TO BAD START” TRAFFIC TODAY EXPECTED TO BE HEAVIER (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, December 25. The heavy toll of road accidents on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day had given New Zealand’s holiday motoring a bad start, even though traffic in most parts of the country was unusually light, said a Transport Department spokesman tonight. “On Boxing Day the hurly-burly is expected to reach record size, with more people travelling than ever before, so if we are not to have a black Christmas and an unhappy New Year, motorists must realise how little separates them from death,” the spokesman went on. “Last year, 13 persons died and 350 were injured between Christmas and New Year, most of them in accidents which could have been avoided by a few extra moments of attentiveness or patience—it costs so little to save so much. The next 10 days will tell the story,” said the spokesman. Christmas Eve had brought a lot of traffic onto the roads, and the main fault noted was speed in the wrong place, rather than excessive speed. Many tickets had been issued, he said.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28160, 26 December 1956, Page 6
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