News & Events - Northland Road Safety

	Local Road fatalities This Year	State Highway fatalities This Year	Total fatalities This Year
Far North	0	4	4
Whangarei	2	1	3
Kaipara	1	0	1
Northland	3	5	8
National	77

"It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble a car, and one nut to scatter it all over the road'"

— Bumper Sticker
"Total Social Cost of Northland crashes involving drivers speeding was $366.71m (19% of all injury crashes between 2012-2016)"

— CAS Data
"29% of Northland injury crashes are caused by poor observation"

— Northland Road Safety Issues 2011-2015 Injury Crashes
"Drivers talking on the phone can miss up to 50 percent of what’s in their driving environments."

— 2014 book A Deadly Wandering
"A Moments Distraction Can Cause A Lifetime Of Change"

— Northland Brain Injury Association