Spate of single car accidents
Ohakune's traffic officer Graeme Cole reports that he has attended no fewer than seven accidents during the past two-and-a-half weeks involving single cars running off the road in the Waimarino. The reasons for the unusually high incidence of this type of accident is difficult to attribute to any single cause, he said, though two appeared to have resulted from drivers falling asleep at the wheel.
Excessive speed would also have been a factor though, in the case of last Tuesday 's accident in which a car failed to take the notorious Lakes Resierve road corner as it travelled towards Ohakune and crashed through the barrier, it probably wasn't entirely the driver's fault*. Some vandals had removed the advisory speed restriction sign prior to the corner.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAIBUL19841002.2.8
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 2, Issue 18, 2 October 1984, Page 1
Word count
Tapeke kupu
130Spate of single car accidents Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 2, Issue 18, 2 October 1984, Page 1
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Ruapehu Media Ltd is the copyright owner for the Waimarino Bulletin. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Ruapehu Media Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in