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The government should postpone car emissions regulations planned for next year, says the car review website dogandlemon.com.

Dogandlemon.com editor Clive Matthew-Wilson says the existing regulations – aimed at reducing the pollution produced by cars – are having exactly the opposite effect.

Car buyers are being warned not to purchase Saab cars, because the company producing Saab vehicles appears unlikely to survive, having recently filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time in three years.

The car review website dogandlemon.com warns that Saab cars are still being offered by dealers without any mention that the parent company is in serious trouble.

Today’s serious crash on a notorious stretch of State Highway 1 near Paraparaumu could easily have become a multiple fatality, says the doctor who attended the accident.

Dr Chris Lane, director of the Kapiti Emergency Medical Services, says:

“A speeding four-wheel drive, driven by a disqualified driver, failed to take a bend, crossed the centre line and rolled down a bank. It’s a miracle that there wasn’t a serious head-on collision.”

Today’s fatal crash on a notorious stretch of State Highway 1 near Paraparaumu could have been easily prevented if wire rope barriers had been installed, says a leading road safety campaigner.

Clive Matthew-Wilson, editor of the car review website dogandlemon.com, was commenting after a head-on collision killed one person and seriously injured another.

Matthew-Wilson predicted last month that further fatalities would occur on this highway after the New Zealand Transport Agency delayed plans to install two further wire rope median barriers on the Kapiti coast highway.