[Welly] Deadly intersection

**RantyDave** · 25th June 2006, 09:20

Christ, I knew this woman.

http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3711559a11,00.html

Through work, and only vaguely, but even so. Where the hell is this intersection where there's been five crashes in the last year? Very f*cking keen to not be a part of this, make no mistake.

Dave

**Madness** · 25th June 2006, 10:42

Wairere Road comes down onto S.H.2 between the traffic light controlled intersections at Tirohanga & Belmont. If you are going north from Melling Bridge it's the dodgy as hell intersection just around the blind bend after the Tirohanga lights.

I would have thought this was more pressing an issue than the cheese-cutter on Eastern Hutt Rd. up by the Silverstream landfill.

**madboy** · 25th June 2006, 12:17

I heard it go down on the scanner, and I heard the other drivers details as well, and if my memory serves me correctly I'm pretty sure I was at school with him. Dodgy intersection, prone to surface flooding in the wet, quite a few people don't look well enough, and even less judge the speed of the oncoming traffic. A lot of people pull out too slowly for traffic travelling at 100+ coming around the blind bend. I liken it to Horokiwi. I reckon they should block the median and make it entry/exit onto only the northbound lane, and not let anyone turn across from/to the southbound.

But lowering the speed limit? Of course, that's got to be the solution to a dangerous intersection. NOT.

**Clivoris** · 25th June 2006, 12:37

What a shitty thing to happen. Can't help but feel for the families and the poor bastards that attended the accident.

**RantyDave** · 25th June 2006, 12:56

Originally Posted by MAXIMUSDEMERITUS

Wairere Road comes down onto S.H.2 between the traffic light controlled intersections at Tirohanha & Belmont.

So, here then?

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&...09735,0.015986

With the bend being under the (2) icon? I don't go there that often, but it's on the way to the Elephant pond (TCWNR) - so one to look out for. Jeez, I was expecting ... I dunno, more of a curve I guess. It doesn't look dangerous at all, which is I suppose what the problem is.

Dave

**Wasp** · 25th June 2006, 15:28

its the intersection where pomare rd/wairere rd joins the motorway, very dangerous intersection (had my bike die there once turning off the motorway across traffic).

I live just up the road in matuhi st. also i believe the person concerned was a business parter in one of our local riders company