Govt Fails on All but One Target on Road Safety Strategy
November 23, 2022
PHOTO: RNZ/ Priti Garude
The government’s strategy to reduce road deaths and injuries failed to meet all but one of its targets with breath testing and reducing speed limits lagging the most.
It comes as the country’s annual road toll reaches 333 deaths, surpassing last year’s and heading back towards 2018’s terrible benchmark of 378 road deaths.
Waka Kotahi’s annual report shows only one of six measures for the Road to Zero strategy were met for the year to the end of June.
It is working with the police and other agencies, including WorkSafe and local government to reduce road deaths and serious injuries by 40 percent by 2030, from 2018 levels.
AA road safety spokesperson Dylan Thomsen said he was disappointed the country’s annual road toll was now heading back towards 2018.