Cornering errors kill 164
PA Wellington Cornering errors were the biggest cause of death and injury on the roads last year, said the Ministry of Transport yesterday. Statistics showed that 164 fatal accidents and 1816 injury accidents occurred after motorists lost control of their vehicles or ran off the road at corners. A further 74 fatal accidents and 988 injury accidents happened when motorists lost control of their vehicles or ran off the road when travelling on straight roads. Of a total 11,170 fatal or injury accidents last year,
7797 were in urban areas and 3373 on country roads. While most of the injury accidents were in urban areas, fatal accidents on country roads outnumbered urban areas by 370 to 235.
There were 676 people killed and 16,052 injured in road accidents compared with 671 killed and 14,165 injured in 1981.
The statistics show that 5824 drivers of motorvehicles were killed or injured. Passengers killed or injured totalled 5067, motorcyclists and pillion-riders totalled 3661, pedestrians, 1214, and cyclists, 911. April was the worst
month for accidents with 1475 people killed and injured, while the highest number of accidents occurred in November with 1294 killed or injured. March, however, saw the most people killed with 62 dying in road accidents compared with 61 in February, June, and August, and 60 in April, May, and September.
Of the 676 people killed in road accidents last year, 443 were occupants of motorvehicles; 114 were motorcyclists, power-cyclists and pillion-riders; 89 were pedestrians; and 30 were pedal cyclists. The Ministry’s statistics,
published as part of its annual report, showed there were 34 fatal and 279 injury accidents caused by overtaking. Head-on accidents, not involving overtaking, accounted for 110 fatal accidents and 754 injury accidents, 474 of which happened on country roads. Running into obstructions caused 16 fatal accidents and 649 injury accidents, while pedestrians were involved in 84 fatal accidents and 1066 injury accidents. The number of people killed and injured per 10,000 vehicles was 88.9 last year compared with 87.4 in 1981 and 92.5 in 1980.
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