Bay Harbour: March 07, 2018

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Wednesday <strong>March</strong> 7 <strong>2018</strong><br />

News<br />

Lower speed<br />

limit on Dyers<br />

• By Sarla Donovan<br />

A LOWER speed limit on Dyers<br />

Pass Rd is a step closer.<br />

Current limits range from<br />

70km/h to 100km/h – but will<br />

likely drop to a flat 60km/h after<br />

city council staff recommendations<br />

were accepted by two community<br />

boards on Friday.<br />

However, a recommendation<br />

that no-passing lines be put in<br />

place met with opposition.<br />

In a split decision, only the<br />

section of Dyers Pass Rd that falls<br />

within the Spreydon-Cashmere<br />

board area will have double yellow<br />

lines – extending from Hackthorne<br />

Rd south for 3.4km.<br />

The Spreydon-Cashmere and<br />

Banks Peninsula community<br />

boards met jointly on Friday to<br />

discuss lowering speeds on Dyers<br />

Pass Rd, between Hackthorne<br />

and Governors <strong>Bay</strong> Rds.<br />

While both boards agreed on a<br />

lowered speed limit, Banks Peninsula<br />

did not want double yellow<br />

lines, while Spreydon-Cashmere<br />

did.<br />

Spreydon-Cashmere board<br />

chairwoman Karolin Potter said<br />

it was a difficult issue and there<br />

were “quite a lot of strong opinions”<br />

aired at the meeting.<br />

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About 13 people gave submissions,<br />

most from Banks Peninsula,<br />

she said.<br />

“Some of them were cyclists<br />

who believed that it would put<br />

them in danger because motorists<br />

would believe they couldn’t<br />

cross the yellow lines but still<br />

would want to pass them – and in<br />

some places the distance between<br />

the car and the cyclist would be<br />

very little. Other people didn’t<br />

like the idea of their right to pass<br />

being transgressed.”<br />

Ms Potter said the Spreydon-<br />

Cashmere board asked for education<br />

of motorists – that they can<br />

cross double yellow lines in order<br />

to pass cyclists.<br />

Dyers Pass Rd has a high risk<br />

rating compared to other rural<br />

roads in Banks Peninsula.<br />

Over the nine years from 2006-<br />

2017, there were 14 serious injuries<br />

and one fatality between Sign<br />

of the Takahe and Governors <strong>Bay</strong><br />

Vehicles losing control during<br />

cornering made up three quarters<br />

of 178 accidents recorded over<br />

that period.<br />

The city council will decide in<br />

early April whether to accept the<br />

board’s recommendation to lower<br />

the speed limits.<br />

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Man critical after car hits tree<br />

• By Andrew King<br />

A MAN suffered critical injuries<br />

after the car he was driving hit a<br />

tree near Cooptown on Monday.<br />

Firefighters arrived at the<br />

scene on Christchurch Akaroa<br />

Rd about 1pm and found the<br />

Christchurch man out of the<br />

vehicle.<br />

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An off-duty firefighter riding<br />

his motorbike came across the<br />

crash and helped the man before<br />

others emergency services arrived.<br />

Little River chief fire officer<br />

Dave Irving said they are unsure<br />

if he pulled the man from the<br />

vehicle or he did so on his own.<br />

“We are not sure if he was assisted<br />

out or the adrenalin helped<br />

him get out of the vehicle, we<br />

didn’t have that conversation, but<br />

we found him [the driver] lying<br />

on the ground with some very<br />

serious injuries,” he said.<br />

He was taken to Christchurch<br />

Hospital by ambulance.<br />

The serious crash unit is investigating.<br />

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