Of the 14 fatal crashes in the past fortnight, nine were head-on collisions caused by vehicles crossing the centre line on 100km\/h stretches. <\/p>\n
Sixteen deaths in total occurred on open roads with no traffic safety barriers, prompting police to advise drivers to take extra care in speed zones above 80km\/h.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is simply no excuse for any driver to be endangering their lives and those of others with unsafe behaviours. Where we see\u202fany unsafe behaviours, you can expect to be stopped by police,\u201d McKennie said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice remain committed to keeping everyone safe on our roads, and work alongside our road safety partners to do this. But we cannot do it alone, we need everyone\u2019s help to keep our roads safe.\u201d<\/p>\n
McKennie said \u201csimple behaviours\u201d such as slowing down, wearing a seatbelt, avoiding distractions and never driving while impaired go a long way towards making New Zealand\u2019s roads safer.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a driver, never underestimate the decisions you make. They can affect not only you and those in your vehicle, but everyone else on the road around you as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
He warned motorists that police would not be tolerant towards those breaking road safety rules.<\/p>\n
McKennie said the force\u2019s thoughts are \u201cfirst and foremost\u201d with the families of those who have lost their loved ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of the 14 fatal crashes in the past fortnight, nine were head-on collisions caused by vehicles crossing the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25441,74,1975,5842,5343,13982,15166,15211,4189,12340,807,685,111,43,139,69,51627,675,1314,25530,1961,2044,42032,3940,26697,379],"class_list":["post-405303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-adopt","tag-after","tag-at","tag-calling","tag-climb","tag-continues","tag-deaths","tag-drivers","tag-driving","tag-habits","tag-kiwis","tag-last","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-passes","tag-police","tag-road","tag-safer","tag-this","tag-time","tag-toll","tag-total","tag-warn","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}