Video transcript
| Timestamp |
Visual information |
Audio information |
| 00:00:00 |
Tom Jessop, Site Supervisor speaking to camera |
As soon as we realised what had happened, we all jumped over the barriers and went straight up to the vehicles to see what we could do straight away. |
| 00:00:10 |
Photo's of a fatal car crash |
Caption: Our crew working in Dome Valley were recently dealt a tragic reminder of just how critical their work is. |
| 00:00:13 |
Tom Jessop, Site Supervisor speaking to camera |
All four passengers in the vehicles were all trapped with quite bad bleeding on some of them. They weren't in a good way, any of them. |
| 00:00:30 |
Photo's of a fatal car crash |
Caption: It's exactly this type of road trauma which Waka Kotahi is working to prevent in the Dome Valley. |
| 00:00:32 |
A machine is working to install median barriers into the road |
Caption: The crash happened just outside of the area where our crew have been installing median safety barriers.
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| 00:00:39 |
Interview with Safety Manager Fabian Marsh |
The safety improvements installed along this stretch of road will make a real difference to the people travelling on what was once a high-crash area. People make mistakes, but those mistakes shouldn't cost us our lives. The road safety barriers installed will be there to protect people by catching them when something goes wrong, preventing high-severity injuries associated with run-off road crashes or head-on crashes into oncoming vehicles. |
| 00:01:03 |
Cars driving in area with new barriers installed |
Caption: Stage 4 of this work has just been completed. It's hoped that theother stages can be carried out without more tragedy |
| 00:01:12 |
Officer Brett Campbell-Howard speaking to camera |
We?ve had three deaths in this area in 2021. That's 3 too many. Even one would be too many. These deaths aren't just numbers. They?re people, real people. |
| 00:01:28 |
Photos of the rescue chopper taking victims to hospital |
Caption: Two of those fatalities were as a result of a crash Tom and his crew witnessed.
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| 00:01:29 |
Interview with Safety Manager Fabian Marsh |
Median barriers are highly effective and one of the key interventions under the government's Road to Zero strategy. They provide physical separation to prevent high speed, severe head-on crashes.
Where we?re treated roads with median barriers in New Zealand we?ve found death and serious injury reductions by as much as 65%, and in some cases where we have both median and roadside barriers, we can see death and serious injury reductions by as much as 90%. |
| 00:01:54 |
Tom Jessop, Site Supervisor speaking to camera |
One of the things I tried to instil into our team straight away afterwards, because they were quite shaken up, was at least they can be reassured the work we?re doing is going to prevent future accidents like this because the two cars aren't going to collide. One car is going to hit the barrier, so there?s still going to be an accident ? but of nowhere near the same consequence, and I think that makes them proud to be involved in it and proud to be making this road safer. |
| 00:02:23 |
Waka Kotahi logo, Road to Zero logo |
Music |
00:00:00 video transcript
| Time |
00:00:00 |
| Visual info |
Tom Jessop, Site Supervisor speaking to camera |
| Audio info |
As soon as we realised what had happened, we all jumped over the barriers and went straight up to the vehicles to see what we could do straight away. |
00:00:10 video transcript
| Time |
00:00:10 |
| Visual info |
Photo's of a fatal car crash |
| Audio info |
Caption: Our crew working in Dome Valley were recently dealt a tragic reminder of just how critical their work is. |
00:00:13 video transcript
| Time |
00:00:13 |
| Visual info |
Tom Jessop, Site Supervisor speaking to camera |
| Audio info |
All four passengers in the vehicles were all trapped with quite bad bleeding on some of them. They weren't in a good way, any of them. |
00:00:30 video transcript
| Time |
00:00:30 |
| Visual info |
Photo's of a fatal car crash |
| Audio info |
Caption: It's exactly this type of road trauma which Waka Kotahi is working to prevent in the Dome Valley. |
00:00:32 video transcript
| Time |
00:00:32 |
| Visual info |
A machine is working to install median barriers into the road |
| Audio info |
Caption: The crash happened just outside of the area where our crew have been installing median safety barriers.
|
00:00:39 video transcript
| Time |
00:00:39 |
| Visual info |
Interview with Safety Manager Fabian Marsh |
| Audio info |
The safety improvements installed along this stretch of road will make a real difference to the people travelling on what was once a high-crash area. People make mistakes, but those mistakes shouldn't cost us our lives. The road safety barriers installed will be there to protect people by catching them when something goes wrong, preventing high-severity injuries associated with run-off road crashes or head-on crashes into oncoming vehicles. |
00:01:03 video transcript
| Time |
00:01:03 |
| Visual info |
Cars driving in area with new barriers installed |
| Audio info |
Caption: Stage 4 of this work has just been completed. It's hoped that theother stages can be carried out without more tragedy |
00:01:12 video transcript
| Time |
00:01:12 |
| Visual info |
Officer Brett Campbell-Howard speaking to camera |
| Audio info |
We?ve had three deaths in this area in 2021. That's 3 too many. Even one would be too many. These deaths aren't just numbers. They?re people, real people. |
00:01:28 video transcript
| Time |
00:01:28 |
| Visual info |
Photos of the rescue chopper taking victims to hospital |
| Audio info |
Caption: Two of those fatalities were as a result of a crash Tom and his crew witnessed.
|
00:01:29 video transcript
| Time |
00:01:29 |
| Visual info |
Interview with Safety Manager Fabian Marsh |
| Audio info |
Median barriers are highly effective and one of the key interventions under the government's Road to Zero strategy. They provide physical separation to prevent high speed, severe head-on crashes.
Where we?re treated roads with median barriers in New Zealand we?ve found death and serious injury reductions by as much as 65%, and in some cases where we have both median and roadside barriers, we can see death and serious injury reductions by as much as 90%. |
00:01:54 video transcript
| Time |
00:01:54 |
| Visual info |
Tom Jessop, Site Supervisor speaking to camera |
| Audio info |
One of the things I tried to instil into our team straight away afterwards, because they were quite shaken up, was at least they can be reassured the work we?re doing is going to prevent future accidents like this because the two cars aren't going to collide. One car is going to hit the barrier, so there?s still going to be an accident ? but of nowhere near the same consequence, and I think that makes them proud to be involved in it and proud to be making this road safer. |
00:02:23 video transcript
| Time |
00:02:23 |
| Visual info |
Waka Kotahi logo, Road to Zero logo |
| Audio info |
Music |
