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Please attribute to Sergeant Ray Wylie, Road Policing Manager Eastern Bay of Plenty:?
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Whakatane Police are very disappointed at the number of crashes attended over the weekend.
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Police attended ten crashes between Friday afternoon and 5.30pm on Sunday.
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Initial indications are that a potential factor in most of the crashes was a failure to recognise the wet conditions of the roads, with drivers not slowing down enough to successfully negotiate bends and corners, losing control of their vehicles.?
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In two of the crashes over the weekend, alcohol is also suspected to have been a contributing factor.
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This is hugely disappointing, considering six drivers are believed to have died on Eastern Bay of Plenty roads this year due to driving impaired by alcohol.
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As summer kicks off and more and more people are out and about on the roads, we really need people to be paying attention to the basics: wear your seatbelt, don’t drive while impaired or distracted, and watch your speed.??
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Police also focused on boy-racer type activity over the weekend, with the pictured car being seized for this type of offending.?
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ENDS
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Issued by Police Media Centre.?