Arrowtown and Queenstown emergency services responded to a collision at the rural crossroads of Speargrass Flat Rd, Lower Shotover Rd and Hunter Rd, near Arrowtown, at 11.15am yesterday. Photo by James Beech.
Detective Grant Miller, of Queenstown, said yesterday the couple, both aged 64, were travelling in a rented silver Toyota saloon west on Speargrass Flat Rd, about 11.15am.
A 34-year-old Queenstown builder was driving a black Ford Ranger utility, with a 43-year-old Queenstown businessman as a passenger, and travelling north on Lower Shotover Rd.
An uninvolved third car in front of the saloon either stopped or pulled over at the give-way sign, but the driver of the saloon apprently did not see, or realise, it was a give-way intersection and drove straight through, into the side of the utility.
The Auckland man suffered a sore back and the woman suffered sore ribs, Det Miller said.
Inquiries were continuing, he said.
