Death on Wheels
EATH is not proud on the New Zealand highways. He exacts his toll wherever roads may run, and he exacts it from young and old with an obliterating impartiality. Last year 313 died and 8000 more escaped at the cost of injury -on New Zealand's roads; and before November 15 last the 1953 fatalities had been exceeded. Yet New Zealand roads are still, in spite of these terrible figures, among the least dangerous in the civilised world. This Is Our Problem, a documentary programme produced by Allan Sleeman, tells how some of 1953’s crop of accidents occurred. It begins in the Casualty Department of a city hospital, takes listeners on a trip with a "mufti" traffic patrol and finishes with a talk to a Transport Department executive on the nature of the traffic problems involved and their possible solution. This officer says: "We feel that at last we are coming to grips with the problem. We’ve been working on this for years, and to give you an idea how we stand in regard to other communities I'd like to give some figures. According to the latest reports available, in New South Wales, for each 10,000 vehicles
on the road, 11 people were killed; in Victoria and Queensland 11 respectively; South Australia, 14; Tasmania, 14; United States, 7; Great Britain, 12; Netherlands, 18; Denmark, 22; New Zealand, 6." Allan Sleeman has also produced a series of re-enactments of real-life incidents from the notebook of a plainclothes traffic officer. These will be heard daily from all YA, YZ and ZB stations beginning December 13. This is Our Problem will be heard from 1ZB (3.0 p.m.), 2ZB (11,30 a.m.), 3ZB (5.10 p.m,), 4ZB (6.15 p.m.), and 2ZA (6.30 p.m.) on Sunday, December 12.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 802, 3 December 1954, Page 16
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293Death on Wheels New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 802, 3 December 1954, Page 16
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