The Right Track » Road Tragedies

The ripple effect we rarely hear of!

John — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 02:04:04 +0000

We talk a lot about the ripple effect on the programme and here are two articles that exemplify this tragic consequences of a serious crash.“I’ve more metal in my leg…” and the harrowing account of not being able to forget the images

Waitangi Weekend starts with two dead in Waikato

John — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 01:59:37 +0000

The news isn’t good for the start of the Waitangi weekend with a tragic crash near Lake Karapiro. The serious crash has closed the highway and obviously apart from the tragedy the ripple effect of having a major highway corridor closed on a holiday weekend will be huge.

Waiuku Tragedy today

John — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 23:34:16 +0000

The tragedy is that in January there were 3o deaths on New Zealand roads and already here is another tragedy with one dead ,two seriously injured

Manukau driving fatal

John — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 21:04:12 +0000

nearly one a day being killed on NZ roads so far this year:-http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11790790

Christmas Tragedies

John — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:34:30 +0000

Sadly we have already experienced the tragic effects of the horrors on New Zealand roads inclduing a terrible fatality on Christmas Day. It seems dreadful that the newspapers continue to record the number of deaths and serious injuries that occur on a regular basis, but I suppose that at least if it’s in our face we might just stop and think! What a great job New Zealand Police do,especially at this time of year, I can only imagine how dreadful it must be to have to go and knock at someone’s front door during the “festive season” to tell parents, brothers, wives, husbands, mothers, fathers that their child is dead.

On a further note, we have already started to receive referrals for the Waitakere and Auckland programmes. The February Waitakere Programme is over subscribed but the Auckland Programme has spaces which unfortunately/fortunately will be filled soon! I would just like to acknowledge the work continued by Courts in working through this time – Thank you.

John

Auckland August Programme

John — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:47:30 +0000

We are now four sessions in to the August Programme and it’s great to see the amazing changes that the young people are experiencing. The Risk management session last saturday certainly takes people out of their comfort zone and gets them to communicate and hear each other, otherwise they don’t get the tasks completed. This has been the turning point for the group and we all look forward to great success during the next three sessions.

So disappointing to continue to read about the carnage on New Zealand roads in the press last week. Just a reality check, since the start of this programme there have been five, 16-25 year olds killed on the roads – TRAGIC!!!!

Read the NZ Herald link here: