More crashing to their deaths
pA Wellington: New Zealand motorists are! trashing their cars off roads! an alarming rate, according to the Ministry of Transport. Seventy-two people werel killed in the first nine months of the year in accidents ini which cars ran off the road. The toll for the corresponding time last year was 33. A Ministry road safety; spokeswoman (Mrs V. Jen-' kins) said that the Ministry] was very worried about the increase, but could do little
’ about it until it had investigated the causes. ; “All we can do at the moment is to ask people to stay alert on the road and nut drink before driving,” [she said. Figures on motorists in- : jured in accidents in which cars ran off roads were not (available yesterday, but they I were also thought to be increasing. Total fatalities for the first [nine months of the year I were 459, compared with 472 ■ last vear.
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