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Posts Tagged We Lost 17 People This Summer On Our Roads: The Cops Made Lots of Money Though

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February 4, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

We Lost 17 People This Summer On Our Roads, The Cops Made Lots of Money Though

I’m echoing sentiments expressed by Duncan Garner in the Dominion Post here when I say that the zero tolerance speed policy over the Christmas holiday period for NZ roads (then extended due to the higher road toll) was an astronomical failure. A simple way of the police topping up its revenue – it deserves all […]
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