Zero

[Haggis2]

Maybe the $$$ we are paying to ACC is filtering back through education etc to lower the road toll?

[Swoop]

Not once has anyone (in the propaganda machine) ever thanked the only thing saving lives out there.
Just once it'd be nice to see some truth from the propaganda machine. But it ain't gonna happen is it...

Thanking the vehicle drivers would be a start. A "pat on the back" for this result.
Perhaps even saying "let's keep it up - get some advanced driving tuition" sort of approach. Yunno... sort of proactive like, instead of the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff.

[oneofsix]

How many bike crashes were there? I didn't see one reported over the weekend and yet there were shit loads of bikes out and about.
Were there less crashes or just less fatals? From what I saw earlier in the weekend it was a case of less injury crashes so I guess less crashing was done by all?

[Zedder]

How many bike crashes were there? I didn't see one reported over the weekend and yet there were shit loads of bikes out and about.
Were there less crashes or just less fatals? From what I saw earlier in the weekend it was a case of less injury crashes so I guess less crashing was done by all?

I could only find reference to 450 road crashes, no actual breakdown of that to car and bikes.

Bikes were certainly out in force though from what I saw. A great weekend!

[Scuba_Steve]

Thanking the vehicle drivers would be a start. A "pat on the back" for this result.
Perhaps even saying "let's keep it up - get some advanced driving tuition" sort of approach. Yunno... sort of proactive like, instead of the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff.

Not a bad idea "positive reinforcement", could very well work. Tho like with the truth, we ain't about to see it cause that's not the way to make moneys

[James Deuce]

The cops can fuck off, it has nothing to do with them.

It has everything to do with the price of petrol and the intersection rule change at the end of March. People have to pay attention at intersections because no one knows how someone is going to behave. Given that intersections are the most dangerous part of road use, I'd say that was the major contributor to keeping the road toll non-existent.

That being said, more people have died this year to date than last year, even with the 10 days of no deaths.

You people still suck.

[oneofsix]

The Acting Road manager had better watch his back. He sounds like a sensible follow and is not crediting a single factor in the zero deaths, not the way to get promoted . He has even pointed out that many are taking extended breaks with the start of the school holidays as a possible factor in the lack of crashes. Thinking about it most of the crashes do happen in the later part of the break so perhaps he has a point. Less tired, frustrated drivers trying to just get home, on this point the clamp down on slow drivers would have also helped.

Congestion had been heavy around Auckland and along the Kapiti Coast on Friday, but had not been quite as bad yesterday

[FJRider]

How can 0 be counted as a toll?
Its not a number...
There was no road toll this easter weekend...so it cant be the lowest.
Surely the lowest must sit at 1?
Anything lower than that is ....nothing.

If it CAN be named ... it is something. You can name anything .... Even nothing. So nothing must therefore be something.

Zero IS a number. My clock tells me it is too ...

[Zedder]

The Acting Road manager had better watch his back. He sounds like a sensible follow and is not crediting a single factor in the zero deaths, not the way to get promoted . He has even pointed out that many are taking extended breaks with the start of the school holidays as a possible factor in the lack of crashes. Thinking about it most of the crashes do happen in the later part of the break so perhaps he has a point. Less tired, frustrated drivers trying to just get home, on this point the clamp down on slow drivers would have also helped.

But isn't it about multiple factors? Better driving habits, good road/weather conditions, less reckless speeding, less drink-driving etc.

[oneofsix]

But isn't it about multiple factors? Better driving habits, good road/weather conditions, less reckless speeding, less drink-driving etc.

and most are discussed above and it is something Mr Morgan is being honest about, even some of the more obtuse ones.

[MSTRS:Me]

The Easter 'toll' is nothing to be proud of...it is simply the vagaries of dumb luck.
Here's the reality

[Maha]

If it CAN be named ... it is something. You can name anything .... Even nothing. So nothing must therefore be something.

Zero IS a number. My clock tells me it is too ...

Using that logic, it could be feasable to list nothing on TM for $1 reserve?

[Scuba_Steve]

Using that logic, it could be feasable to list nothing on TM for $1 reserve?

na doesn't work, I try'd that after seeing carbon credits for sale (effectively the same thing). Got pulled after 3 days, seems you gotta offer a physical product with your sale, coulda done up a certificate but that woulda defeated the purpose of my nothing sale.

[ellipsis]

The Easter 'toll' is nothing to be proud of...it is simply the vagaries of dumb luck.
Here's the reality

...my feelings also...I saw a lot of fuckwits out there, just getting away with it...

[scumdog]

The Easter 'toll' is nothing to be proud of...it is simply the vagaries of dumb luck.
Here's the reality

Funny way of organsing the 'casualty age' bit - grouping ranging from 4 years to 19 year lots.

At a quick glance you could be forgiven for thinking that older people are more likely to be a casualty.