Northland Road Safety x Northland Rugby Union: Tackle Drink Driving

This season, Northland Road Safety is teaming up with Northland Rugby Union to promote safer choices around alcohol and driving.

With alcohol-free zones at games and the ‘tackle drink driving’ message featured on the field, on a player’s shirt, across social media, in Far North cinemas, and through PA announcements, we’re making sure the Tackle Drink Driving message hits home: plan ahead, check in with your mates, and make sure someone’s taking one for the team as the sober driver.

We’ll be at every home game set up in the family zone —come try our impairment goggles, play some corn hole, and have a chat about how to get home safely.

Home Game Schedule:

"On average, texting drivers take their eyes off the road for up to 5 seconds at a time. At 90kph, that’s travelling the length of a football field completely blind."

— 2014 book 'A Deadly Wandering'
"Texting While Driving......Go Together Like.....Winning The Powerball Jackpot Then Losing The Ticket."

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

— Bumper Sticker
"Nearly 80% of New Zealanders agree that compulsory breath testing enforcement helps lower the road toll"

— Public attitudes to road safety survey, Ministry of Transport 2014
"Global Road Crashes Kill More Than 1.35 Million People Annually"

— UN General Assembly

	Local Road fatalities This Year	State Highway fatalities This Year	Total fatalities This Year
Far North	3	5	7
Whangarei	4	2	6
Kaipara	0	3	3
Northland	7	10	17
National	216