NZ Road Toll at Four-Year High Despite Road to Zero Campaign and Lowering of Speed Limits
December 18, 2022
With nearly two weeks still to go, Ministry of Transport figures show this year’s provisional road toll sits at 358 deaths.
That’s 59 more deaths than all of last year and more than any year since 2018 when 360 people died.
The grim figures come as Aotearoa aims for no road deaths under the ambitious Road to Zero campaign.
“It’s not just a number, each person that’s killed on the road had a family, a life that’s been lost, and we see all the devastating consequences that their loved ones will be going through,” Brake NZ spokesperson Caroline Perry told Newshub.
With the Christmas and New Year road toll set to begin at 4:00pm next Friday, road safety advocates are urging people to take care on the roads.