The Star: June 14, 2018
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6 Thursday <strong>June</strong> <strong>14</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
News<br />
Strategy to stop the number<br />
Fifty-three people have<br />
died in crashes on<br />
Christchurch roads in<br />
the past five years. Now<br />
the Government, city<br />
council and police have<br />
revealed a plan to make<br />
roads safer in a bid to<br />
save lives. Julia Evans<br />
reports<br />
COLLEEN CASE was killed<br />
when her car was wiped out by<br />
a truck when she failed to stop<br />
at the Sawyers Arms Rd and<br />
Logistics Dr intersection in<br />
Harewood.<br />
“She hadn’t driven that road in<br />
a long time . . . there was a stop<br />
sign, but the road markings were<br />
totally gone. <strong>The</strong>y might have<br />
got her attention,” her eldest son<br />
David Case said yesterday.<br />
In January, the 83-year-old was<br />
cut from the vehicle by firefighters,<br />
but died at the scene.<br />
“It happened on Friday morning<br />
at 10am. My wife and I had<br />
just got home from our overseas<br />
travel on Thursday. We were<br />
jet-lagged, but were going to see<br />
mum the next day,” Mr Case<br />
said.<br />
Before he could visit and give<br />
her the gift he’d brought her back<br />
from Ireland, his phone rang.<br />
“I got a call from my brother,<br />
he said there had been an accident<br />
and mum hadn’t made it.<br />
I just remember everyone was<br />
pretty shot after that.”<br />
His mother’s death was the last<br />
in a string of unfortunate events.<br />
He’d just been made redundant<br />
after 32 years and during<br />
his holiday overseas, paid for<br />
with his redundancy package,<br />
he and his wife both contracted<br />
the deadly Aussie flu, someone<br />
committed suicide in front of<br />
their Eurostar train and he was<br />
robbed in Paris.<br />
SAFETY: David Case’s<br />
mother Colleen was<br />
killed at the Harewood<br />
intersection of Sawyers<br />
Arms Rd and Logistics Dr in<br />
January. PHOTO: MARTIN<br />
HUNTER<br />
Mr Case said it had been a<br />
“long road” to recovery after it<br />
all. <strong>The</strong> road markings had worn<br />
off at the intersection. Mr Case<br />
said they were painted back on<br />
the next day. His mother’s death<br />
is still under investigation by the<br />
coroner.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>re are a lot of factors that<br />
play into it, I guess. We shouldn’t<br />
rely on people reporting things<br />
and fix them before these accidents<br />
happen,” he said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Road Safety Action Plan<br />
has been unveiled by the city<br />
council, police, Christchurch<br />
Transport Operations Centre,<br />
ACC and New Zealand Transport<br />
Agency in a bid to reduce<br />
the number of fatalities and<br />
serious injuries on Christchurch<br />
roads.<br />
It lays out the “key risk” factors<br />
in the city and actions to address<br />
them so crashes like Mrs Case’s<br />
do not happen again.<br />
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