road accident - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 24 Oct 2018 21:55:40 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg road accident - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 School grieves for student killed in Oamaru hit-and-run accident https://cathnews.co.nz/2018/10/25/school-grieves-hit-and-run/ Thu, 25 Oct 2018 06:50:44 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=113163 "It is with profound sadness that we acknowledge the death, last night of one of our year 10 female students," St Kevin's College wrote on Facebook. "This has and will continue to have a traumatic effect on our school and particularly the students who knew and loved her." The 14-year-old Oamaru girl died in a Read more

School grieves for student killed in Oamaru hit-and-run accident... Read more]]> "It is with profound sadness that we acknowledge the death, last night of one of our year 10 female students," St Kevin's College wrote on Facebook.

"This has and will continue to have a traumatic effect on our school and particularly the students who knew and loved her."

The 14-year-old Oamaru girl died in a hit-and-run accident. Continue reading

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Six Francis Douglas Memorial College students in New Plymouth have developed a 'T' plate that tourists drivers can put on their car, similar to an 'L' plate for learner drivers. Having the plates on tourist drivers' cars would make the public "more aware" of crashes involving foreigners, year 12 student and company "CEO" Patrick Back Read more

Students make controversy about tourist drivers a business opportunity.... Read more]]> Six Francis Douglas Memorial College students in New Plymouth have developed a 'T' plate that tourists drivers can put on their car, similar to an 'L' plate for learner drivers.

Having the plates on tourist drivers' cars would make the public "more aware" of crashes involving foreigners, year 12 student and company "CEO" Patrick Back said.

Prathik Rajasingh, Bailey Wensor, Alex Lightbody, Flyn Wise and Dylan Wheatley and Back came up with the plate idea.

They decided to develop it as part of the Young Enterprise in Schools (YES) programme, which encourages students to develop a business plan and carry it out.

"We were just thinking of what we could make. The conversation of tourists came up so we started trying to figure out a way to solve that or help them out," Wise said.

While the idea has been suggested before as a way for other drivers to recognise and be careful around tourist drivers on the road, the students decided to take it a step further and develop it into a company.

The plate design the students came up with is the same size as the L plate and has a large black T on a green background.

It features a number of Kiwiana designs such as the 4-Square man, the bumblee-bee toy, a sheep, a tiki and a kiwifruit.

For $16 tourists will get two plates and a pamphlet that has a list of road rules.

"We made it with suction cups so they can take it down when they're stopped, so they're not targeted for theft," Back said.

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Students make controversy about tourist drivers a business opportunity.]]> 83514 Priest urges young people to take it easy on the roads https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/05/17/priest-urges-young-people-to-take-it-easy-on-the-roads/ Thu, 16 May 2013 19:29:29 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=44213

After 4 young men were killed in a car accident last weekend, a South Auckland priest has urged South Auckland youth to take it easy on the roads for the sake of their families. Viane Gaga and his family would usually have been attending church last Sunday. But instead, they were at his bedside in Read more

Priest urges young people to take it easy on the roads... Read more]]> After 4 young men were killed in a car accident last weekend, a South Auckland priest has urged South Auckland youth to take it easy on the roads for the sake of their families.

Viane Gaga and his family would usually have been attending church last Sunday. But instead, they were at his bedside in hospital.

"They always come to mass every Sunday and throughout the weekdays, so when I received the call I arrived at Middlemore Hospital," says Father Felisi Lemi. "I talked to them and then we prayed."

On Sunday afternoon Viane's life support was turned off and he passed away at 5pm.

Lemi is asking South Auckland youth to be more responsible on the roads - if not for their sake, then for those they leave behind.

"We have to say to them, 'hey, it's time for you to think about your own future for the sake of your own families as well'."

Speed and alcohol were factors in the crash, with the car travelling at 160km/h on State Highway 20 and 100km/h on Massey Rd - a 50km/h zone, Counties Manukau police district commander Superintendent John Tims said.

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