Accidents claim over 800
PA Wellington More than 800 people were killed in flying, driving and shipping accidents in New Zealand during 1986, according to the Ministry of Transport’s annual report tabled in Parliament.
Road deaths made up 767 of the total, 20 up on the previous year. The Auckland Harbour bridge was the scene of 26 deaths, more than double the previous year, which led to an 80 km/h limit being Imposed on
February 26. Daily traffic flow over the bridge is about 97,000 vehicles, according to the report Thirty-six people died in 460 shipping accidents reported to the Ministry of Transport. Pleasure boat accidents
were the main source, causing 22 deaths, and nine people died in fishing boats. One person drowned when the Mikhail Lermotov went down, two persons died when the Lady Elizabeth II police launch
sank and two people were killed when a workboat from the rockdumping ship Seaway Sandpiper overturned. A total of 110 air accidents claimed the lives of 19 people. Seven pilots, nine passengers, one crew and two others were killed.
Twenty-seven helicopter accidents were recorded, but none resulted in fatalities. One man was killed in 20 parachuting accidents and two persons were killed while gliding.
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