A 20-year-old Wanaka driver who crashed three times on
Saturday night before being stopped by a lamppost was three
times over the legal breath-alcohol limit, Wanaka police said
yesterday.
A UK coroner's inquest into the riverboarding death of
English traveller Emily Jordan (21) began yesterday, three
years after she drowned on the Kawarau River in April 2008.
Kawarau Jet says it regrets the incident which led to it
yesterday being fined $35,000 in the Queenstown District
Court and receiving criticism from Maritime New Zealand
(MNZ).
Without the quick response of the Otago Regional Rescue Helicopter and neurosurgery unit at Dunedin Hospital hang-glider pilot Mark Halliwell is certain he would be dead.
Brent Andrew Gordon, of Cromwell, admitted dangerous driving
causing the death of Joanne Steel (40), of Invercargill, when
he appeared before Judge Dominic Flatley in the Queenstown
District Court yesterday.
A Queenstown teenager who fled, leaving his friend for dead,
after a jet-skiing accident on Christmas Day will have to
deal with the consequences of his actions for a very long
time, Judge Dominic Flatley said.
Skateboarders are speeding down some of Dunedin's steeper
streets at more than 50kmh and the craze is going to end with
someone getting killed - and not necessarily a skateboarder,
say concerned authorities and residents.
A dead fisherman and his seriously injured crewmate may have
drifted for nine hours on their damaged boat before being
found in Doubtful Sound yesterday morning.
