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Toxic cocktail of speed, too many vehicles on beach threatening lives Mon, 21 Dec 2020, 4:55PM Kaipara District Councillor David Wills at Mahuta Gap where constant four wheel driving has damaged sand dune vegetation. Photo / Susan Botting Toxic cocktail of speed, too many vehicles on beach threatening lives text by Susan Botting, Local Democracy Reporter A toxic cocktail of speed and too many vehicles is threatening lives – and the environment – on New Zealand's longest driveable beach. That's the grim warning from a Kaipara leader who says the problem is worsening. Ta...

Toxic cocktail of speed and too many vehicles on Northland beach threatening lives 20 Dec, 2020 05:00 PM 6 minutes to read Kaipara District Councillor David Wills at Mahuta Gap where constant four wheel driving has damaged sand dune vegetation. Photo / Susan Botting Susan Botting is the Local Democracy Reporter for Northlandsusan.botting@northernadvocate.co.nz A toxic cocktail of speed and too many vehicles is threatening lives – and the environment – on New Zealand's longest driveable beach. That's the grim warning from a Kaipara leader who says the problem is worsening. Tauranga 13-yea...

A toxic cocktail of speed and too many vehicles is increasingly threatening lives - and the environment - on New Zealand's longest driveable beach. Kaipara District Councillor David Wills at Mahuta Gap where constant four wheel driving has damaged sand dune vegetation. Photo: LDR / Susan Botting That's the grim warning from a Kaipara leader who says the problem is worsening. Tauranga 13-year-old Daisy Fernandez died after being struck by an unregistered motorbike on Ripiro's Glinks Gully on 31 December 2007. "It's only a matter of time until someone else is killed on Ripiro Beach," Kaipara D...

It’s the longest driveable beach in New Zealand. Hundreds of off-roaders, other four wheel drives, cars and quad bikes and motorbikes are increasingly flocking to the beach – along with ever-growing numbers of people. The beach is classified as a road. It has a 100 kmh speed limit outside small pockets of 30k/h zones around small settlements along its beach’s length. Ripiro Beach’s settlements include Manganui Bluff, Omamari, Baylys Beach, Glinks Gully and Pouto Point. “We have been discovered as a destination for off-roading,” Graeme Ramsey, 25-year Baylys Bach resident a...