9 Oct 2017

Police worried about rising road death toll

From Morning Report, 6:11 am on 9 October 2017

The police say they're extremely worried about the recent rising trend of deaths on roads each year. In the past two days alone, three people have died on state highways in the North Island. It takes the number of people killed on or near the road this year to 330 - 47 more than this time last year with several months still left. Our reporter Karen Brown, spoke to the national manager of road policing, Superintendent Steve Greally.