{"id":11774,"date":"2024-10-29T07:19:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T18:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11774"},"modified":"2024-10-29T07:19:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T18:19:25","slug":"labour-day-weekend-road-toll-ends-at-zero-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11774","title":{"rendered":"Labour Day weekend road toll ends at zero deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"

The official Labour Day weekend holiday period is over and no one died on New Zealand roads, police say.<\/p>\n

It is a new record for the period, with the previous lowest being in 2013 when one person died and 109 people were injured.<\/p>\n

The worst Labour Day holiday weekend for deaths and serious injuries was in 1983 when 13 people died and 248 were injured.<\/p>\n

Last year, there were six deaths, 2022 saw five deaths, 2021 saw six deaths and in 2020, eight people died, according to the Ministry of Transport.<\/p>\n

Earlier, New Zealand Transport Agency spokesperson Andy Knackstedt warned people not to be complacent on the roads.<\/p>\n

He said even if there were no deaths, those who are seriously injured in crashes can have lifelong impacts.<\/p>\n

“We’re just asking people to do the basics – drive and travel at a safe speed, to share the driving, make sure you’re well rested, and just take the the time that you need to to get home safely.”<\/p>\n

In earlier holiday road tolls this year, the ministry said seven people\u00a0died during Easter<\/a>, four died during King’s Birthday, and one died during Matariki.<\/p>\n

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The official Labour Day weekend holiday period is over and no one died on New Zealand roads, police say. It is a new record for the period, with the previous lowest being in 2013 when one person died and 109 people were injured. The worst Labour Day holiday weekend for deaths and serious injuries was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11776,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11774\/revisions\/11776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}