Paul Wonnop captured this footage on Waihi Rd on Saturday evening.
A video of a car driving the wrong way on a four-lane road in Tauranga has had more than 8000 views on Facebook.
Tauranga resident Paul Wannop shot the video of the car on Waihi Rd about 7.30pm on Saturday. Since then it has been shared 44 times and viewedmore than 8000 times.
Wannop and his partner were heading north toward Eleventh Ave when they saw a dark-coloured sedan exit the Koromiko St roundabout on the wrong side of the road.
The car was travelling north in the southbound lane of Waihi Rd, heading into oncoming traffic.
Wannop said the car seemed to slow and "hesitate" but eventually continued in the wrong lane.
In the video, a sedan indicates left as it crosses the Takitimu Dr overbridge but a traffic island separates the two directions. At the intersection of Waihi Rd and the Takitimu Dr exit ramp, the car uses a southbound merger lane to cross over into the northbound lane and continue towards Eleventh Ave.
The reported path of the car. Graphic/Google Maps
Wannop said they last saw the car turning on to Cameron Rd.
Wannop said the driving was so bad he thought the occupants were either unlicensed, tourists or new to New Zealand.
