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Our highest annual road toll was in 1973 when a staggering 843 people died — more than double the tally last year, when the population was far higher. The per capita road toll was more than four times higher in 1973 than in 2011.

– Excerpt from an article about NZ's 2018 Easter road toll, NZ Herald, 3 April 2018

Having a few too many ... well, that's all right but once you get into a car you become a danger to everyone, a potential killer.

– Jim (Ken Blackburn), on finding out the worst way possible that alcohol and cars do not mix

Oh, come on Jim, you can't condemn booze!

– A mate of Jim Kershaw (Ken Blackburn) tries to get him to join a drinking session

All right blokes, enough of this chat, time for some serious drinking.

– Peter (Richard Poore) is keen to maximise his drinking session

It's a hell of a smash, isn't it?

– A bystander on seeing the wreckage after Jim's (Ken Blackburn) accident

Bloody drunks.

– Dr Giles (Derek Wooster) tries to do his job in A&E on a busy weekend night