The 2012 road toll
The Herald reports:
Last year New Zealand recorded its second lowest road toll in 50 years, with the deaths of young people significantly stemmed, police say.
At midnight, the provisional road toll stood at 306 – slightly higher than the previous year’s record low of 284 deaths.
While disappointing to go up, the 2011 figure was the lowest figure ever, being a drop of 100 on the year before. The last six years have been:
- 2007 – 421
- 2008 – 366
- 2009 – 384
- 2010 – 375
- 2011 – 284
- 2012 – 306