Couple angry at 'menial punishment' for tourist crash driverCHRISTEL YARDLEY/Stuff.co.nz Two Matamata crash victims were left with horrific injuries after an American tourist hit them head on. READ MORE:* Fatal crash tourist driver was on wrong side of road* Two killed in rental van may have only just arrived in the country​* Three of four dead in Waikato crash thought to be French touristsThere was no loss of consciousness, there was no escape. "It's menial punishment that [tourist drivers] are getting, but not only that, they're coming here and they don't understand our roads or the weather and they just drive like bloody idiots. From 2011 to 2015, the average number of fatal crashes on our roads per year was 264, Harland said. And in 2015, Kiwi drivers were involved in 272 fatal crashes and 1721 injury crashes, and overseas drivers in 19 fatal crashes and 101 injury crashes.

Source: Stuff July 02, 2017 01:04 UTC