Media Releases

Daytime running lights can prevent many fatal accidents, says the car review website dogandlemon.com.  

Commenting after an elderly man riding a mobility scooter on a pedestrian crossing was hit by a van, dogandlemon.com editor Clive Matthew-Wilson says:  

“Many of these accidents are preventable by the simple addition of daytime running lights on all moving vehicles. Pedestrians who can see moving vehicles can avoid them. Mobility scooters that are lit up are less likely to be accidentally hit by passing drivers.”

A former Minister for Transport Safety has backed a call to limit police chases to extreme emergencies.  

Harry Duynhoven, who was Minister for Transport Safety under the Helen Clark government and is now mayor of New Plymouth, says:  

“A simple change of legislation would strongly discourage many dangerous high speed chases.”  

Duynhoven believes that the police should have the power to permanently seize any privately owned vehicle used to flee from the police, provided that it isn’t stolen.  

Electronic distractions are becoming a major road safety hazard, says the car review website dogandlemon.com.  

Dogandlemon.com editor Clive Matthew-Wilson, who is an active road safety campaigner, says:  

“There is now a global, multi-billion dollar industry selling electronic devices that distract the user. Globally, these devices are causing thousands of serious road accidents every day.”  

The New Zealand government has finally recognised that safer cars and roads are the key to improving road safety, says the car review website dogandlemon.com.

Commenting on the government’s ‘Safer Roads’ plan, editor Clive Matthew-Wilson says:  

“The saddest thing about the government’s ‘Safer Roads’ document is that it’s about fifteen years late. Most of these proposals to improve the safety of cars and roads were proposed by me ten to fifteen years ago, and I was widely attacked for proposing them.