Media Releases

See also the attached document, a brief summary by the AA on the actual causes of road deaths.

The police are continuing to use phony science to justify a failed anti-speeding campaign, says the car review website dogandlemon.com.

Editor Clive Matthew-Wilson, who is an active road safety campaigner, says:

A prominent road safety campaigner has accused the government of sitting on its hands while innocent people die needlessly.

Clive Matthew-Wilson, editor of the car review website dogandlemon.com, says:

Many of the worst accidents in the last few months could have been easily prevented if the government had acted.

The government is pretending to address the problem with its Visiting Drivers Signature Project. In reality, however, most of the government's strategies aren't working and won't work. It's time for action.

A prominent road safety campaigner is blaming multiple deaths on the design of New Zealand roads.

Clive Matthew-Wilson, who edits the car review website dogandlemon.com, was commenting after Santhosh Kumar Cherukuri was killed in a head-on collision on State Highway 2 at Pahoia, just before 7.30pm on Thursday.

Mr Cherukuri had crossed the centreline into the path of an approaching truck and trailer unit.

A prominent road safety campaigner has outlined a twelve-step a plan to halve the road toll in five years.

Clive Matthew-Wilson, editor of the car review website dogandlemon.com, says:

“It’s pretty obvious from the recent road toll that enforcement and persuasion are a fairly poor way of saving lives. We need to move beyond the policies that don’t work, and move towards policies that do.”

Matthew-Wilson says there are a number of key steps that would dramatically lower the road toll.