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Toxic cocktail of speed, too many vehicles on beach threatening lives
Mon, 21 Dec 2020, 4:55PM
Kaipara District Councillor David Wills at Mahuta Gap where constant four wheel driving has damaged sand dune vegetation. Photo / Susan Botting
Toxic cocktail of speed, too many vehicles on beach threatening lives
text by Susan Botting, Local Democracy Reporter
A toxic cocktail of speed and too many vehicles is threatening lives – and the environment – on New Zealand s longest driveable beach.
That s the grim warning from a Kaipara leader who says the problem is worsening.
Tauranga 13-year-old Daisy Fernandez died after being struck by an unregistered motorbike on Ripiro s Glinks Gully on December 31 2007 - one of several deaths on the beach. ....

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