It's been nearly 22 weeks since a major alteration was made to the country's road rules and in the Wanganui district, at least, the change appears to have been chanceless.
Daniel Cairncross, Wanganui District Council roading safety engineer, said there did not appear to have been any major "negative impacts" in the city and district since the rule governing give-ways changed on March 25.
Two give-way rules changed. The first requires all traffic turning right to give way to a vehicle coming from the opposite direction and turning left. This applies at cross roads, T-intersections and driveways where both vehicles are facing each other with no signs or signals, or the same signs or signals.
The second governs the uncontrolled T-intersections rule where all traffic from a terminating road (bottom of the T) now must give way to all traffic on a continuing road (top of the T). This will bring it into line with T-intersections where there are Stop or Give Way signs on the terminating road.
For 35 years, New Zealand was the only place in the world where vehicles turning left had to give way to vehicles turning right.