Roll Road Safety Bosses' Heads

New Zealand has a problem of wilful road safety mismanagement that is centered in the National Road Safety Committee. It's results flowing from hidden entrenched policy bombs amount to a campaign of domestic terrorism.

Fatal crashes are up by 10% this year with drug driving and fatigue strongholds Bay of Plenty and Nelson Marlborough worst hit by "the RAM" policy, the failed Resource Allocation Model for Road Safety delivery developed from '95, which Minister Hawkins assented to the application of.

RAM is an economic system whereby Police operations are self funded by intensive quota scavenging (supported by advertising to legitimise it), which under our incentive system for repeat offences antagonises and triggers dangerous drivers to take risks to the limit. Promises of more Police only force quotas up.

If the Minister of Transport was to listen with honor and integrity to multiple complementary submissions by groups in the know, who've offering sound solutions to counter Advisors deceptive guidance, he could become an overnight lifesaver of pensioners, meth and pot-smokers, and their victims.

Missing from the local scene since LTSA's class of '95 implemented the experimental RAM quota software and commenced reporting findings to a foreign power are responsibility, accountability and transparency. If they don't appear soon, then the Transport Minister in charge of the National test lab may well join others in asking the Speaker to fund legal defenses.

The paramount need (as advocated by the AA)is to now review the Resource Allocation Model to identify the correct quota dose and mix ie police hours spent on speed, alcohol and also other key offence targets for safety enhancement versus decline. This is a serious request of monumental import to NZ and the world, and clearly no joke.

It is abundantly clear from 3 prior reviews, as demonstrated in diagrams and submissions by many groups, and from the Accident Compensation Corporations crash injury bill doubling to nearly 7B in 5 years, that excess time spent carping and ticketing, over the most limited target offence range in the world (sans preventive penalties), increases serious crash injuries.

Restricting education and policing to a flick it a ticket campaign versus only speed, alcohol, seatbelts and intersections (only half of toll causes) is not a winning strategy.

Candor Trust has reviewed the literature and estimated the likely scenarios of 3 packages in the offering that could impact the main toll cause of impaired driving.

A reduced alcohol limit would achieve little - in the realm of 8 lives saved yearly - however this optimistic estimate would likely not be achieved due to the increased young men killed when limits drop.

By contrast just introducing random drug testing saves 32 lives, and 52 would be trimmed from the toll by the correct intervention of synergistically adding both random drug testing and a reduced limit. provisional upon addition of an apt penalty regime.

Specifically NZ would need to confiscate at least 4x as many vehicles from repeat offenders, bringing the ever diminishing odds, now at 1 in 20, far higher. New York killed impaired driving overnight by displaying fields of newly seized killing machines - oft sold for Police or victim funds.

Sections of the news media captured by NZTA have assisted New Zealands mismanaged decline to lead in OECD road toll statistics, with worst impacts on minors. Candor considers the complicity and frequent lack of research and balance to Police/NZTA misguidance journalistically unethical.

Campbell Live and two regional newspapers are highly complicit with NZTA's evil propaganda, which overall hinders road safety. The captured media outlets habitually decline to deal with the issues, and have long acted as conduits for off topic NZTA/Police waffle that only worsens Public survival odds. It is not public service content. It just helps raise 1B in traffic fines whilst fatalities and injures blowout.

A heinous example of misused fish and chip paper was the NZ Heralds recent publication on Sunday Mar 21 of an NZTA propaganda item titled "Seatbelt could have saved toddler". It discussed a crash in which a mother smashed on cannabis and benzodiazepines caused a crash that killed her young child.

No emphasis was placed on the taboo cause of the crash (drugs are not part of the RAM quota/publicity deal)and multiple paragraphs never departed from NZTA approve talking points ie seatbelt use. The point was strongly made that there doesn't seem to be much reason some parents don't buckle kids up and maybe they just don't know the law.

But Candor staff heard in court why the deceased child was not buckled up -the stoned Mothers priority was to let the dog sit in the spot where the seatbelt was available. Clearly her rationality as well as crash risk were altered. The Herald ignored the correct key message and strayed far from any salient relevant preventive education - making a mockery of the childs death.

Headlines in non denier countries mince no words when drug drivers kill children. But the Herald had the poor taste to round out the article about the traumatic killing of a drug addicts 4 year old son with a quote that said road safety workers "hope children will play a bigger part in looking after their own safety."

Certainly Candor agrees that alcoholic and drug addicts toddlers might do well to learn carseat use, sprinting from death traps and skills to counsel parents against impaired driving, some 4 year olds are real survivalists. But perhaps Police random testing their drivers for all killer drugs would be a superior strategy.

Candors message to the Minister is to consider hard whether his condoned road safety messages, and the twinned legislative timetable being spoon fed to him by the class of '95 are indeed salient and safety centered.

If he is at all unsure (a sanity test), he should commission the exact review that all main road safety lobbyists demand - including a no holds barred interrogation of the class of '95 and their cross departmental long range research plot (Locations; NZTA, MoT,NRCS NZIER, RoadPol). But perhaps outing the RAM SCAM constitute the admission of too great a wrongdoing to be politically do-able? It is Erebus x 10 after all.

ENDS

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