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Ryan Bridge: A theory on the record low road toll
The road toll is sitting at zero for the long weekend.
Six people died last Labour Weekend, which is a tragedy.
The road toll is the lowest Labour Weekend toll since 2013, when we had one death on the roads.
Why do we think this has happened this particular weekend?
Is it the Road to Zero that the previous government introduced?
Is it the fact we've had some road upgrades, some potholes fixed potentially?
Or is it just random stats? You know, we should really be looking at annual averages, not weekend blips which can jump around – a bit like our weekend of sport last weekend, which was a bit…
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