“Lucky” Tourists Scape Death!
At least 17 tourists had to run for their lives when fire destroyed a tourist bus in the Homer Tunnel (New Zealand) yesterday - the third such incident there. Report
On January 3, 2008 another bus burned to a shell in Homer Tunnel.The 22 tourists on board were spared serious injuries. See 22 foreign tourists run for their lives after their bus catches fire: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10485349
The Three female Korean tourists, aged 18, 19, and 34, who had their right arms amputated after the crash and the other passenger who suffered a fractured eye socket, were not so lucky! http://www.stuff.co.nz/4322877a11.html
Related Links:
Inordinate Tourist Road Deaths are Blamed on New Zealand’s “Lousy Drivers“
You are twice more likely to be killed on New Zealand roads than in Germany, and probably up to 1,000 times more likely to fall victim to a serious assault!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10493084
[Note: NZ government agencies have declined to provide the relevant stats on the numbers of assaults and murders of foreigners.]
A 25-year-old Korean national was killed on NZ State Highway 2
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4405769a11.html
Two Koreans were injured in tourist bus collision
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4405812a11.html
Three tourists hurt in vicious Queenstown street attack: “It was a very serious assault,” police said. http://www.stuff.co.nz/4405769a11.html
Links to recent tourist fatalities in NZ:
New Zealand: A Tourist Deathtrap
Canadian Tourist Murdered?
Murdered in New Zealand in the Prime of Her Life
A 57-year-old American tourist fell to his death after missing unmarked “path” in Mt Cook http://www.stuff.co.nz/4394988a11.html
A British tourist killed in bus crash, fate of the other seriously injured tourists unknown
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4384845a11.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4386040a6009.html
Roads claim nine lives during weekend
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/080204/3/3ua9.html
One person is dead and two seriously injured in a tourist bus collision yesterday.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4354764a11.html
Crash raises road toll to 11 for January
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4342068a10.html
Tourist bus crashes with van, 1 dead.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4356238a6570.html
Three female Korean tourists, aged 18, 19, and 34, had their right arms amputated after the crash. Another passenger suffered a fractured eye socket.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4322877a11.html
Eight Chinese tourists were taken to hospital, one with serious injuries.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4240038a23955.html
West Coast bus crash injures 21 overseas tourists [with 10 receiving severe injuries such as fractured limbs.]
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4273025a6047.html
One tourist was killed and Eight others are in a critical condition after a head-on crash in Waikato. http://www.stuff.co.nz/4342236a11.html
22 foreign tourists run for their lives after their bus catches fire
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10485349
A 46-year-old Malaysian woman was raped in Auckland
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10492627
See also:
Canadian Tourist Murdered?
Scottish Tourist Murdered in New Zealand in the Prime of Her Life
