Health researchers at the University of Auckland have suggested a tax on utes in response to high emissions and more deadly accidents.
By Felix Walton of RNZ
They said traffic accidents involving utes were seven times more likely to be fatal, burdening the healthcare system.
“There is a cost, we’ve got so much more air pollution and so much more injury associated with these things. Someone has to pay that cost,” senior researcher Dr Kirsty Wild said.
“We have a particularly polluted and dangerous transport system at the moment and it’s putting…
