Our Year-10 Road-Safety Report Card: A Fatal Fail

Our Year-10 Road-Safety Report Card: A Fatal Fail
Ten years ago the Government approved a target to reduce the death toll on New Zealand’s roads below 300 per annum by 2010, and hospitalisation rates below 4500 a year.
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Higher taxes for strong beer backed
ALCOHOL awareness groups and York Central MP Hugh Bayley have welcomed proposed changes to the taxation and price of alcohol to help reduce alcohol abuse.
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STUDY: Friends feel responsible for drunken friends
In more cases than not, friends feel responsible for the actions of their inebriated peers, according to a study conducted by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. According to the study, which was published in The Huffington Post, students were given three choices to respond to a hypothetical situation starring a character named Jane, the friend who decides she wants to go …
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