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New Zealanders heading out onto North Island roads on Monday might want to avoid the 10 stretches of highway considered to be the nation's deadliest roads.
The AA says the equivalent of a small town is injured every year on our roads and we all need to do better.
"Each year we injure and kill 16,000 people on the roads in New Zealand, that is the population of Cambridge," says Mike Noon from the AA.
On the road roll of dishonour are four chunks of State Highway Two, two sections of State Highway One between Orewa and Wellsford and another piece from the Kapiti Coast to Levin. Along with parts of State Highway 18 along the upper harbour highway, State Highway 22 near Pukekohe and State Highway 58 Porirua to Upper Hutt.
Research into why these roads have proved so dangerous will be out shortly but the AA says it is trouble when cars travelling in opposite directions on highways are just separated by a painted line.
"Keep an eye on the left hand side of the road so that if you are going to have to stop suddenly or if a vehicle comes into your lane you have got an exit line," says Noon.
