A Kiwi truck driver is sharing heartstopping video of near-misses that he says he and his colleagues see each day – and he desires “bulletproof” motorists to concentrate,

Peter Hughes, who operates the New Zealand’s Worst Drivers Fb web page, has over 17 years on our roads – and instructed the Herald that the issue is simply getting worse, regardless of the Authorities’s push for a highway toll of zero..

The movies present drivers risking dying by trying dangerous, unlawful overtaking manoeuvres and Hughes says they solely symbolize a fraction of what truckies see on daily basis.

When the Herald spoke with Hughes this morning, pulled over in his truck at 9am, he had already had two close to misses since he obtained on the highway right now, saying the potentially-fatal encounters had been a “each day prevalence”.

Hughes forged doubt on New Zealand’s means to achieve a zero highway toll, saying that whereas lowered pace limits and wire dividers had been “nice initiatives”, the onus was on drivers to alter their behaviour.

“You possibly can’t repair silly,” he stated, noting that lowered pace limits wouldn’t cease annoyed motorists from taking pointless dangers to hurry up their journey.

“You’re nonetheless going to get people who find themselves impatient and might’t appear to determine that it’s two minutes later, or lifeless.”

Hughes was crucial of the Kiwi perspective that driving was a proper and never a privilege, saying our ego typically outstrips our means as drivers.

He stated everybody on our roads must “lose the tunnel imaginative and prescient” and be extra conscious of their environment.

“There appears to be extra of an entitled attitude,” Hughes stated, telling the Herald that motorists with that attitude would push the boundaries on the highway “come hell or excessive water” and irrespective of any modifications to highway guidelines.

“Individuals are at all times going to interrupt the pace restrict.”

He stated that, in his private expertise, the speed of close to misses had elevated – which he put right down to some having a “bulletproof mentality” after they obtained behind the wheel.

Hughes instructed the Herald that international drivers had been typically incorrectly blamed for our excessive crash price and stated the issue was a lot nearer to house.

He highlighted city-dwellers who took their motorway driving habits to slender rural roads, saying that, with out a centre divider, some appeared to “lose their minds”.

He stated motorists wanted to grasp that vans couldn’t simply take evasive motion and drivers had been educated to “maintain the road” and scale back pace to forestall a doubtlessly worse scenario if the truck tipped.

He stated that he had been lucky to not have been concerned personally in any deadly accidents, however had been first on the scene of a deadly crash and stated the expertise “doesn’t depart your head for some time”.

He implored anybody driving on our roads to concentrate to their environment, have respect for different drivers, and remember of the results of a collision with a truck, as a result of “there’s solely going to be one choice”.