Road Toll Stats

in General Motorways by AKT — January 5, 2011 at 10:04 am | 0 comments

The official holiday road toll period finished this morning with 13 people dead on the roads over the Christmas period.

Of the 13 dead, there were:

10 men and 3 women
5 drivers
2 motocycle riders
5 passengers
1 pedestrian
6 in the 15-24 age group.

Police say:

6 of the crashes had suspected alcohol as a factor (54%)
7 of the crashes had speed as a factor (63%)
2 of the crashes, driver inatttention suspected
9 of the 11 dead were killed on open roads where the speed limit is 100km/hr

Overnight there have been two further deaths, a 15 year driver who was fleeing from police died on Auckland’s southern motorway. The pursuit had been abandoned at the time of the crash. The other fatality was of a 19 year old who was a passenger in a campervan which went off a cliff face in a campsite north of Auckland.

This is the third lowest holiday road toll since 1980. In 2006/2007, 9 people were killed, a record low, and in 2004/2005 there were 11 people killed. Last year 13 people also died on the roads. The highest toll was in 2008/2009 when 25 people lost their lives in the holiday period.