The government’s strategy for preventing tourist accidents has been a complete failure, says the car review website dogandlemon.com.
Editor Clive Matthew-Wilson, who is an outspoken road safety campaigner, says many tourists simply lack the skills to drive safely on New Zealand roads, yet the government does nothing to stop them from renting cars and crashing.
Cars with their lights on are up to 25% less likely to end up in a fatal daytime collision this Christmas, says the car review website dogandlemon.com.
A prominent road safety campaigner has called on the New Zealand government to stop promoting self-drive holidays to foreign tourists, and instead to promote less risky alternatives.
Clive Matthew-Wilson, who edits the car review website dogandlemon.com, says many tourists simply lack the skills to drive safely on New Zealand roads.
Claims that allowing used Japanese cars into Australia would have reduced road safety are simply nonsense, says the car review website dogandlemon.com.
Editor Clive Matthew-Wilson, who has extensively studied the New Zealand experience with used imports, says:
“Used Japanese imports were the best thing that ever happened to the New Zealand consumer.”
This weekend’s horror smash between a car and a truck, which killed three people, would not have occurred if the road had been fitted with median barriers, says the car review website dogandlemon.com.
Road safety campaigner, Clive Matthew-Wilson, says he was ‘sickened’ after viewing the mangled wreckage.
Dogandlemon.com editor, Clive Matthew-Wilson, says the government needs to take action to improve the safety of many “appallingly dangerous” rural roads.
The government’s sudden announcement of increased funding for rural highways, is no substitute for keeping dangerous drivers off our roads, says the car review website dogandlemon.com.
