Confiscated tourist keys

[Berries]

These fucking tourists should all be shot - Tourist-tboned-caravan-in-mount-bruce-crash.

When you look at the stats I am sure you can prove farmers are the root of the problem, just a shame they don't make the same headlines.

[BlackSheepLogic]

In this case tho' I get the impression that the kiwi driver took the keys with a belief that mr Patel was a genuine threat to other road users. Whether he was right to do so, I dont know.

I'm not a big guy but followed one cunt home and got the typical fuck-u attitude. Brother rolls up couple of mins latter on his cruiser looking for me and the guy starts begging for forgiveness (my brother is about 3x my size).

[zooter]

Fully 25% of major crashes in Southland involve foreigners driving rentals. It used to be the cops would take their keys, but the lawyers got involved and the cops had to back down. They were relying on two distinct pieces of law to jump from dangerous driving to instant licence suspension. Scumdog can full in the blanks.

[Akzle]

I'm not a big guy but followed one cunt home and got the typical fuck-u attitude. Brother rolls up couple of mins latter on his cruiser looking for me and the guy starts begging for forgiveness (my brother is about 3x my size).

what a faggot

[blue rider]

Fully 25% of major crashes in Southland involve foreigners driving rentals. It used to be the cops would take their keys, but the lawyers got involved and the cops had to back down. They were relying on two distinct pieces of law to jump from dangerous driving to instant licence suspension. Scumdog can full in the blanks.

I am sure Scumdog will be more than happy to fill in the blanks and hand over a ticket for something.

[scumdog]

All day long I hear on the radio about driving complaints, about THE most common thing to hear on the air.

And I'd put money on a full 90%+ being cars registered to rental companies.
Mostly being driven on the Lindis Pass, in the Kawarau Gorge and the Crown Range road.

Close those roads and ban rental cars and the problem would be gone..

[blue rider]

aside from that,

when at the AA i was told that I could hand in my german drivers license and I would on the spot get a NZ driver lisence.

WTF..... i looked at the Lady and asked her if she was joking...Surely I say there must be a test, a driving around the block kind o test, or maybe a few multiple questions type o test, something....please assure me. Nope....nothing....nada....zilch...nix.

She asked me if I wanted a NZ driver lisence and if I would just hand her over mine from Germany and she would get it done pronto on the spot.
I have been terrified of NZ driver ever since....really really scary, it was that easy.

[swbarnett]

aside from that,

when at the AA i was told that I could hand in my german drivers license and I would on the spot get a NZ driver lisence.

WTF..... i looked at the Lady and asked her if she was joking...Surely I say there must be a test, a driving around the block kind o test, or maybe a few multiple questions type o test, something....please assure me. Nope....nothing....nada....zilch...nix.

She asked me if I wanted a NZ driver lisence and if I would just hand her over mine from Germany and she would get it done pronto on the spot.
I have been terrified of NZ driver ever since....really really scary, it was that easy.

Perhaps it's just the fact that if you have a German license you're more than likely to be of a higher standard than the average Kiwi driver. Probably no though as I think this applies to a number of countries that you can't say this about.

When I got my Swiss license I had to do a full practical test. Now that was a challenge when about the only German I know was the words was right and left (plus a few others that came in handy) and the tester knew no English at all.

[Laava]

aside from that,

when at the AA i was told that I could hand in my german drivers license and I would on the spot get a NZ driver lisence.

WTF..... i looked at the Lady and asked her if she was joking...Surely I say there must be a test, a driving around the block kind o test, or maybe a few multiple questions type o test, something....please assure me. Nope....nothing....nada....zilch...nix.

She asked me if I wanted a NZ driver lisence and if I would just hand her over mine from Germany and she would get it done pronto on the spot.
I have been terrified of NZ driver ever since....really really scary, it was that easy.

I did a straight swap in the UK for my kiwi license. Just pay a fee and voila! Full european license car, bike and self laying tracks!

[Berries]

Fully 25% of major crashes in Southland involve foreigners driving rentals.

And how many cars on the road in Southland do you think are rentals being driven by foreigners? The figure matters but nobody knows. The link I posted above is another one of those crashes involving bloody foreigners to add to the stats and yet it had nothing to do with them being from overseas.

Get on the Lindis and the Crown Range and the number of rentals goes through the roof. All things being equal you would expect the number of crashes involving them to go through the roof as well. And they do. Are they over represented? They are if you read the headlines in the papers but I have my doubts. I see them as an easy scapegoat so we don't have to consider our own shit driving. By the powers of my deduction fully 75% of major crashes in Southland do not involve foreigners, and the figure is even higher elsewhere.

[Moi]

Mostly being driven on the Lindis Pass, in the Kawarau Gorge and the Crown Range road.

Those are not difficult roads to drive on... though the Crown Range was fun in the days before it was sealed...

[mossy1200]

Something smells.

If we are the worst drivers in the history of developed countries how can tourists be an issue?

There are only 3 explanations

A- Were not as bad as they say.
B- We have the worst roads in the world
C- People with poor skills are searching for spots to drive where insurance companies don't know their names.

[scumdog]

Something smells.

If we are the worst drivers in the history of developed countries how can tourists be an issue?

There are only 3 explanations

A- Were not as bad as they say.
B- We have the worst roads in the world
C- People with poor skills are searching for spots to drive where insurance companies don't know their names.

From my overseas travels it seems that while the overseas drivers seem to be 'bad' they are also more defensive than NZ drivers - they expect the worst from the other driver and drive accordingly.

Rather than as NZ drivers do - expect the other drivers to be as 'good' as them.

And also drive accordingly.

And Kiwi drivers don't 'share' the road - they think they 'own' it.

[mossy1200]

And Kiwi drivers don't 'share' the road - they think they 'own' it.

Im just leasing the bits that I ride on. Sharing is caring.

[zooter]

aside from that,

when at the AA i was told that I could hand in my german drivers license and I would on the spot get a NZ driver lisence.

WTF..... i looked at the Lady and asked her if she was joking...Surely I say there must be a test, a driving around the block kind o test, or maybe a few multiple questions type o test, something....please assure me. Nope....nothing....nada....zilch...nix.

She asked me if I wanted a NZ driver lisence and if I would just hand her over mine from Germany and she would get it done pronto on the spot.
I have been terrified of NZ driver ever since....really really scary, it was that easy.

Terrified is a bit strong.

Generally Euro drivers are much more courteous than locals in city driving. Chinese cause much consternation. Today I was almost hit by a flustered Chinese lady at a small roundabout. I was about to cross her path she came at me and we both stopped.

The worst one joined me from my right in the median strip from his give way as I was about to turn right. He stopped in front of me. Then he attempted to reverse 3 point turn back into the traffic flowing behind, gave up and parked back in front of me, sat for a bit then charged into the traffic to my left attempting to go around me on the wrong side off the road to get back on course. Much squealing of braking tyres honking horns, back he comes in front of me. Then he proceeds with the traffic doing 20kph looking to pull a U turn.

Being German we know you are better than that!