Low road toll expected
PA Wellington Ministry of Transport staff were hoping last evening for a low ChristmasNew Year road toll after a slow start to the holiday carnage. Only two deaths since the official holiday period began at 4 p.m. on Monday had been reported to the Ministry by 9 p.m. A Belgian woman, aged 23, died when she was thrown from a car which rolled near Opotiki in the eastern Bay of Plenty at 6 p.m. on Monday. The woman, whose name will not be released till next of
kin overseas are informed, was a backseat passenger in a car hit by an overtaking vehicle. Five and a half hours later a motor-cyclist was killed when his machine collided with a car in the main street of Paeroa. He was Gordon Bruce Blakeman, aged 17. of Thames. The road toll at the end of Christmas Day last year stood at nine. However the recording period began a day earlier than this year. Three people were killed on December 24 and 25 the previous vear, compared with 12 in’l9Bl-82.
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