A grim 50-year statistic will be recorded in New Zealand sometime this month – road toll victim number 28,000. At midnight on Monday, November 30, 27,999 people had died on our roads since January 1965, an average of 559 deaths a year. The two worst months for road deaths in that time were December 1977, with 84 victims and December 1981, with 81. The worst year was 1973, … [Read more...] about Road toll – a grim statistic hovers over December 2015