Perhaps that s the message foreign drivers need to get: stuff up, and you re going to have to use t

Yesterday, a tourist driver was also escorted by police back to Greymouth and had their vehicle confiscated following an incident on the Coast Road near Barrytown. A marked police car witnessed sustained driving residence inn tampa by the tourist across double yellow lines.
Hokitika police apprehended a driver yesterday after being handed video evidence of dangerous overtaking on the Awatuna straight on State highway 6. Acting sergeant Paul Watson said a local resident had filmed the dangerous manoeuvre on their dash cam.
Rather than take the keys off them, it s probably better to record their antics residence inn tampa and call the cops in.   But as you can see, the incidence of tourists driving dangerously is sufficient for three serious cases in the last two days.
Perhaps that s the message foreign drivers need to get:  stuff up, and you re going to have to use the bus that comes only once a day, and doesn t stop anywhere nice for you to have a look at the scenery or take photos.
Unfortunately it is much easier to nab people for quantifiable offences such as speeding. If dangerous driving was quantifiable there would be much more police attention. They also should be using education as a mechanism for preventing dangerous and unsafe driving for offences like entering a motorway at 60 kph and driving 70kph on a 100kph road.
It would be interesting to know what percentage of foreign drivers commit driving offenses.in this country. By this I m not referring to the overall residence inn tampa percentages of drivers on the road that commit offenses,as the road transport authorities would conveniently have us believe, but what percentage of foreign drivers that come to New Zealand commit a driving offense? .I suspect it would much higher than than the national average..
Every day I see between four and ten vehicles travelling in the wrong direction on one-way residence inn tampa streets and most days I also see vehicles running orange and red lights, causing congestion by entering intersections when there is no space available for them to exit the intersection, making u-turns around residence inn tampa the ends of traffic islands at intersections (even when other traffic has a green left turn arrow entitling them to the space into which the u-turner intends to go), failing to stop at stop signs and making bad decisions in relation to right turns in heavy traffic residence inn tampa ignoring container trucks leaving the port.
Speeding is something that I see less frequently (I am in central Auckland), but it s not uncommon for me to see traffic police monitoring speed on Quay Street in the late afternoons so I d guess that many regular drivers on that strip of road know that too.
I fully support getting dangerous menaces off the road, both visitors and locals. However I wonder how far it will go. Say for example I travel to South island and hire a car, something with a sensible amount of power. I then decide residence inn tampa to pick off several slow drivers on a straight using the power of the engine to limit my time on the opposite side of the road. Will I then end up getting police attention residence inn tampa for daring to overtake safely in a hire car because a local who s quite happy dawdling along doesn t like being overtaken?
I see where you are coming from, I just hope discretion is used with how it s enforced. I hired a camper van once which had no power at all. Overtaking at exactly 100k was scary and the alternative of sitting behind the car in front that slowed alarmingly every time the road had a mild deviation from arrow straight wasn t much fun either.
We don t seem to have such a problem here maybe because the roads have a bend every couple of hundred of meters. Perhaps tourist forget what side of the road they should be on after going dead straight for miles on miles.
I think that the solution needs to be some sort of visual clue or hint in the rental vehicles to remind drivers to keep left. A training video shown on arrival won t be any use at the point when a driver needs help.
Many years ago I drove in California for two years and found that the places where I needed to concentrate really hard were when joining residence inn tampa a narrow residence inn tampa country residence inn tampa road where there were no vehicles in the immediate vicinity (so no traffic to follow) and in the supermarket carpark (where my almost instinctive reaction was to steer to the left instead of the right when I faced an oncoming vehicle). residence inn tampa Driving in the city or on the freeway was a breeze. residence inn tampa As a pedestrian, I had to remind myself to look left, then right, then left again before crossing as the old look right, look left, then right again training I had drilled into me as a child was really well ingrained.
I believe that part of our current problem is that overseas visitors often underestimate New Zealand journey times and are hurrying to reach their next attraction or destination. Our roads are comparatively narrow and do have a lot of curves, so a driver whose experience has largely been in dense city traffic or on high speed motorways, freeways or autobahns is going to be operating outside their normal comfort range.
I ve never seen such an in-vehicle sign in a rental vehicle in Australia, residence inn tampa the US or NZ. I think such a sign would need to be a picture or drawing rather than words to speed up assimilation of the message.
I recall that we used to have curved arrows painted before some no passing yellow centre lines. I don t drive much out of the city these days, but I haven t seen one of those arrows residence inn tampa for many years. I d guess that painting them would take a little longer than just having the lines painted, but agree the additional cost would be insignificant.
The rental companies must be loving residence inn tampa the confiscation of vehicles. They get the car back early and keep the full rental. The cynic in me would suggest that they may start tipping off the police about the drivers that they are concerned about.
Does anyone know if rental residence inn tampa companies use GPS and tracking technology to monitor how a car is being driven speed obviously and also sudden braking and acceleration etc? Similar to what some insurance companies are pushing so that you can lower your premium.
yes talk to a lot of our truckers who do regular trips up and down this country and many have dash cams installed, residence inn tampa and the clips they catch would amaze many of us. My family member regular drives Christchurch to Picton and back and the shots he has shown me in just the last three weeks are very scary here s one so how can people not see those lines these Guys take their lives in their hands every day and sometimes have to take evasive action like the second one not funny all because we cannot slow down and arrive at our destination a couple of minutes later.
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