A top South Island cop says bad driving is not the preserve of foreign tourists as local drivers are to blame for the majority of crashes and deaths. Mid-South Canterbury area commander Inspector Dave Gaskin told the Herald claims by officers patrolling the region's roads that foreign drivers were causing the bulk of driving incidents on South Island highways were not correct. But Gaskin said the Twizel officer and other local police were "shooting off at the mouth" about overseas drivers and unfairly maligning foreign and foreign-looking drivers. He denied 80 per cent of tickets were going to foreign drivers. The latest to die were two South Island drivers in a horror crash on the Waimate Highway on Boxing Day.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 28, 2017 23:03 UTC