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Higher drinking age a weak toll measure
Sunday, 6 July 2008, 10:56 am | Candor Trust
Higher drinking age a weak toll measure Calls by the Sensible Sentencing Trust to consider raising the drinking age, for theorised road safety gains require more attention to context. A study published by James Fell in the July issue of Accident ... More >>
Steve Fitzgeralds loss a blow - Candor Trust
Saturday, 21 June 2008, 10:53 am | Candor Trust
Steve Fitzgeralds loss a blow Candor Trust The Candor Trust convey condolences and sadness at the death of a top road safety professional Superintendant Steve Fitzgerald in tragic circumstances. New Zealand Road Police lost a champion when he was reassigned ... More >>
ALAC misguidance could inflame road toll
Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 5:21 pm | Candor Trust
Candor Trust disputes ALACs contention that a reduction in the Blood Alcohol Limit would bring about a reduction in the binge drinking culture, and say that using road safety resources to do so is an abuse of Police powers. More >>
Traffic Alcohol Group Last of Mohicans
Sunday, 15 June 2008, 4:28 pm | Candor Trust
Operation Safer Counties-Manukau was run on Friday and Saturday nights with checkpoints stopping 13,356 vehicles for drivers breath tests to find that 274 returned positive results. More >>
Youth Week upon us - child safety abysmal
Sunday, 25 May 2008, 11:24 am | Candor Trust
Candor Trust media release Too little, too late is Candor Trust's view of Dr Kiro's calls for accountability over the killings of the Kahui children. When a Nanny State embraces lack of any real accountability with a matrix of policies tailor made to ... More >>
Government's Drug Policy Helped Kill Twins
Monday, 12 May 2008, 12:13 am | Candor Trust
While the Governments policy of ignoring harm from P and other drugs continues we will not only have drug enhanced families killing babies, but they'll also continue targeting strangers for violence off and on on the road. More >>
Police nab Killer Bees but ignore killer disease
Wednesday, 7 May 2008, 11:46 am | Candor Trust
Candor Trust criticises the flurry of arrests of drug biz gang members from the Tribesmen and Killer Bees as wastage of Police resources. It does nothing to address the leader of the pack of drug related harms - the drug driving massacre More >>
Drug Harm Cost Estimates Deceptive
Friday, 2 May 2008, 2:28 pm | Candor Trust
Governments’ social cost estimates of drug harm in 2006 grossly underestimate the contribution to traffic crash costs. In stating the socal costs of related crashes are $53 million Jim Anderton and Co. are undershooting by at least 800%. More >>
Government deafness to cell phones pleas
Monday, 28 April 2008, 9:43 am | Candor Trust
The Transport Safety Minister claiming that cellphone driving can be addressed through a wider driver distraction campaign is diversionary not serious, says the Candor Trust. The harsh fact is that traffic issues such as cellphones, and the larger problems ... More >>
ACC leads new sheep to the slaughter
Tuesday, 15 April 2008, 11:24 am | Candor Trust
The ACC seminar for over 500 international students from North Shore schools is criticised by the Candor Trust as being wasteful of taxpayer dollars. An overemphasis on speed and how that can affect ability to adjust to conditions, with a sole emphasis on ... More >>
Honesty about teen road safety lacking
Sunday, 13 April 2008, 2:43 pm | Candor Trust
Honesty about teen road safety lacking Candor Media Release Harry Duynhoven should be a comedian say Candor Trust, in response to his latest ramblings about drink driving."To the media he claims teen drink driving is skyrocketing, but to groups like ours behind ... More >>
Drug driving anarchy kills a somebody
Wednesday, 9 April 2008, 12:57 am | Candor Trust
The low priority ranking Labour has accorded to the drug driving bill is not only contributing to record road tolls, it has now killed a local sporting personality. Evidence of methadone and recent impairing cannabis use were found in the blood of ... More >>
Bacardi - road toll action tokenistic posing
Monday, 7 April 2008, 1:42 pm | Candor Trust
Bacardi Limited's just launched "Champions Drink Responsibly" sole drink drive awareness campaign, as fronted by repeat World Formula 1 winner Michael Schumacher is socially irresponsible. It will backfire to seriously underrmine current road safety messages, ... More >>
Batmobile Transport Strategy - eject now
Monday, 7 April 2008, 10:42 am | Candor Trust
The NZ Governments draft Transport Strategy document is recklessly daffy in it's emphasis upon Green issues, and helping to avert natural disasters in a thousand years time. It has no preventive element as regards toll deaths from today out to ... More >>
Rational Approach to Cannabus Called For
Wednesday, 2 April 2008, 2:27 pm | Candor Trust
Road Safety group, the Candor Trust has concerns that the National tour of the NORML Cannabus, which encourages civil disobedience as it makes "pot-stops" along the way, could inadvertently send a confusing message to NZ youth. A dangerous message ... More >>
Toll steadily tracking up.
Sunday, 30 March 2008, 5:27 pm | Candor Trust
Media Release Candor Trust Toll steadily tracking up. Candor Trust is appalled by the imbalance in yet another Dominion Post article - a thinly veiled PR firm sponsored exercise in abnegating Government responsibility or countless traumatic deaths. Talk ... More >>
Campaign Against Distracted Government Needed
Wednesday, 12 March 2008, 11:34 am | Candor Trust
In response to the latest cellphone drink driving disaster Harry Duynhoven - reluctant to enact legislation midst a blood bath - claims Government will soon launch a campaign about the risk of driver distractions. More >>
Drug Driving Bill Urgent
Friday, 7 March 2008, 4:49 pm | Candor Trust
Candor Trust say the road toll crisis, with past year fatalities increasing an average of 20 persons yearly since March 2006, shows the drug driving legislation must immediately be given urgency. Drug misuse is only a nose behind alcohol as fuel for the toll, ... More >>
Is it safe to drive stoned next week or not?
Saturday, 1 March 2008, 7:59 pm | Candor Trust
ACC should rethink if they plan to decorate NZ?s new drug test capable "booze buses" with bold anti drink driving livery alone. That could exacerbate the drug driving epidemic by communicating an offer of immunity to high risk offenders. More >>
Candor Trust Road Safety PR
Sunday, 27 January 2008, 5:53 pm | Candor Trust
Government Agencies are wrong to attempt to restrict peoples movements by asking them to avoid using the roads a little of their taxes pay for, due to substandard construction. More >>
