Tourist Safety Advice

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Traveling to New Zealand?

You are committing a double act of eco-terrorism.

But if you’ve already arrived and promise NOT to return, I’d let you read the following. It could save your life!

If you are driving in New Zealand, the odds are heavily stacked against You! In the 2009/2010 tourist season you are 14 to 20 times more likely to get killed on New Zealand Death Roads than in Australia.

An investigator examines a car that crashed into a wall in Hastings, New Zealand, following a short police chase. The driver of the car died at the scene. Photo: John Cowpland/Getty Images. For copyright details see HowStuffWorks.

But you can stay alive if you heed the following precautions and learn to:

• ‘Play Chicken with Cars’ and avoid Kamikaze kiwis on the road.
• Beware of New Zealand Death Roads.

Avoid

• Road Ragers
• Drunk Drivers
• Junkies an the Wheel
• Mad Cows on the Road
• Sleep Drivers
• Death Wishers
• Malicious Suiciders
• Psychopatic Police Drivers Chasing Petty Thieves
• “Boy Racers”
• Gang Bangers

Especially, keep well away from ultra neurotic banshees pumped up with sedatives.

Related Links:

• Kamikaze kiwi driver injures 4 US tourists, one critically, two others seriously