A road safety advocacy group is calling for fellow southerners to stop calling road deaths a "road toll" so that people will start taking the issue more seriously. “A toll implies we are comfortable paying with our lives, our children’s lives, our parents’ lives, our family or friends’ lives for the convenience of road travel,” Southern Road Safety Influencing Group Chairman and Southland District Councillor Brian Dillon said. Is this what we want for our communities?”The Southern Road Safety Influencing Group challenges everyone to stop talking about it as a road toll and call it what it is – death, he said. Tomorrow the yearly road toll will start again from zero. However, the Christmas/New Year holiday period road toll will end at 6am on Wednesday, January 3.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 31, 2017 02:26 UTC