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Wellington heading north???
Three people are dead and another four critically injured after a head on smash on State Highway One north of Wellington.
Both lanes are blocked between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki.
Although diversions are in place, traffic is banked up for kilometres in both directions.
Police say motorists should expect delays of up to two hours.
Just chillin'
Originally Posted by Blakamin
I always hate hearing these announcements .. I hope none of my old friends from Pram are in it. That stretch of road from Raumati South through to the southern side of Pukerua Bay has had some horrendous smashes on it. I have witnessed 3 fatals there and when I had my restaurant on SH1 we were constantly helping out those who had fucked up and smashed something or someone !! ... No bikers though in 5 years ........
A man can move much faster without a millstone around his neck, so if he gets the chance to lose her he'd better drop her and run like heck !! .. (10cc "Modern Man Blues" - Deceptive Bends)
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Yeah....its not good...
A trauma doctor who has lost count of the number of dead and maimed he has attended on Wellington's killer coastal highway has been called out again.
Three people have died and a fourth is critically injured, after two cars collided head-on at speed just north of Pukerua Bay at around 4.30pm.
A third car then crashed into the wreckage of the first crash.
Chris Lane says emergency workers arrived to find two people dead - and two critically injured .
One of those died moments later.
Dr Lane says ambulance and volunteer fire-fighters worked courageously to free the critically injured patient.
At seven o'clock, traffic was still banked up for several kilometres either side of the crash site.
Police say motorists should expect significant delays
RIP...
off topic...hooks, it wasnt 1906 was it?
Hardcore Biker
Another sad day for a lot of people. And still Tranzit will say its not a priority as they spend millions shortening another city's rush hour from an average 1.42 minutes to 1.22 minutes a journey.
Has to be the scariest bit of road out of Wgtn. Absolutely zero margin for error. I attended a friend's funeral a few months ago who died at the same spot, head on -someone crossed the centreline with nowhere for others to swerve too.
Happiness is a means of travel, not a destination
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it sux that SH1 is a friggin 2-lane back road to any other country in the world....
Dis Tent Rider
It is sad to see these things but seeing the pictures taken from the helicopter, straight piece of road with twin rumble strips for a centre line. That piece of road has been relatively safe for the last year, hope it is no-one that I know.
Gatvol
Decided to go visit the parents in Lower Hutt. Left wellington and, based on the backed up traffic at the intersection of SH1 / SH2, and the relatively good weather, I decided to go up the gorge, round paramata roundabout and over H58 (Haywards Hill). Paramata and the gorge were not too bad, but as I turned onto H58 it was backed up all the way, moving about 50m every 5 minutes, no exaggeration! In the end I got fed up, and "overtook" the whole way, only darting back in when I met any oncoming cars, which was thankfully not very often.
My bike definitely prefers the open road, wasn't the most comfortable ride!
Oh, yeah the 2 hour delay is irritatingly very accurate!
Still, at least I got where I was going, such a pity about the 3 who didn't
Ride safe y'all
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The problem is that the speed limit signs saying 100 are so small that people that know the road want to do 100 and others think that its still 70-80 coming out of pukerua... same north of paraparaumu to waikanae... people still do 80...road rage gets happening and next thing you know....accident!
Mark the speed limit properly... they have big signs saying
50... why are the ones saying 100 so small
on the up
As cynical though it sounds, every death helps make Transmission Gully a more realistic proposition.
With Transit rating each death at about 2 million dollars, we only need about another 350 people to die for Transit to deem it cost effective.
That road has always been a killer road. Every year it seems we have to hear about a horrific crash between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki. Gives me the shits having to drive that road...
I guess eventually they'll make it a 50km/hr road. Obviously the people who crashed were speeding....
Transit NZ's policies make me want to
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
Highway Biker
The only answer is a concrete barrier, do this and take the heat for less space on the road, you have to keep the traffic apart, headons are a thing of the past or are in other countries, spend money and keep the 2 lanes apart. Speed is not the problem here.
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Look...
I'm a hell of a nice guy.... I HATE it when people die needlessly. I love my kids and assume others do the same....
I'm stuffed if I know how to feel about this.....
I drive that road every day. I've seen more friggin' morons than road hazards and yet I cannot believe that SHW1 goes through stupid towns that no one want to visit unless you live there... I just can't sort all this out. Add mad bastard truck drivers hooning it and....
It's a right bastard all right....
It's about time we set a bunch of bull dozers from Bluff to North cape and tell em to 4 lane the bastard no matter what!
on the up
Look, guys, that road's a piece of shit and we all know it.
You can't put a concrete barrier down the middle of it as its already so narrow that if you cut out 5 feet in the middle for a barrier the trucks will never get through.
You can't widen the road on the left hand side because it's just a drop off to the ocean.
You can't widen the road on the right hand side because the bloody railway tracks are there.
Not to mention an unstable hill above the railway anyway.
The cost to widen that road would be horrendous...
I guess we just have to wait for another 350 people to die....
NEEDLESSLY
I'm a bit pissed off about the whole thing.
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
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I'm way more than pissed off....the whole road from paremata to waikanae has been a death trap for years.... used to live at 2 main rd waikanae...1st house over the bridge, in '88-89. so many deaths....
someone has to make this so-called "state-highway" (what friggin state??) "No.1"?? (hate to see any others then) a real road ....on par with the rest of the world.... might as well ride around bali for all the 'structure' the system has here...
sorry, i've spent toooo long in australia
Just chillin'
Yeah well.... you guys have said it all .....
I lost count of the times we had an accident in the weekend outside our restaurant ..... there could be a line of stationary traffic but some idiot would still miss seeing it and ram someone or spin out trying to avoid the stopped cars !!! ... In one sunday afternoon we had a guy go past upside down in the middle "flush median".... buggered if I know how.... and when the traffic banked up while that was being sorted there were 9 .... yes 9 other small accidents and the firecrews couldn't get thru !! .... One morning we even had a truck & trailer take out 2 power poles and 150m of lighting and fences ... he had to cross 4 lanes of traffic while going south to do it !!! bloody lucky they didn't hit anyone getting there .... So many fuckwits and so little space ....
A man can move much faster without a millstone around his neck, so if he gets the chance to lose her he'd better drop her and run like heck !! .. (10cc "Modern Man Blues" - Deceptive Bends)
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Roads don't kill. Neither do roading engineers, road crews, nor even politicians. Compared to the Scandinavian countries all of whom have economies that dwarf ours and similar or slightly bigger populations, we have a huge roading infrastrucutre. Australia's economy dwarfs ours also, and bear in mind that there is the State Government System, and the Federal government system to provide an overlap in regulatory and planning requirements for roading systems.
As callous as it sounds you need to be stupid, in a state of altered reality (at least one party involved anyway), or at a stretch, unlucky to have an accident along that road.
The only way to fix it is a big spend up, a large construction project taking many years, and rooting house prices in Whitby. The only way to get it done is for it to be a political objective at election time, and no one will win a second term these days in the aftermath of a "Think Big" project. The money to pay for it will have to come from somewhere and irrespective of anyone's feelings about it, 1.3 Million voters in the greater Auckland region mean we are boxing waaaay above our weight to ever get it done.
As for what Paul said, no Highway should EVER pass through a town or city if it is to serve it's proper purpose. However NZs economy is so fragile that many towns that rely on seasonal through traffic for there existence would vanish, and in the process of doing so have concomitant social costs in the billions of dollars over a period of time. That would probably mean tax increases to meet both the initial outlay and follow on costs. Again it's heartless to say, but when the government hits you in the back pocket, other people's deaths seem less "involving" than they did at the time.
The fact remains that it is unpleasant that people die before their time. The fact also remains that not everyone who shares the road with us takes their responsibility to value every road user's life around them as much as they value their own.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
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