A Chinese tourist who narrowly avoided a head-on collision when he drove 100m on the wrong side of the road near Queenstown has been fined and disqualified from driving.
A Chinese driver whose rental car collided with another vehicle near Queenstown was a "classic case" of why tourists should sit a driving test, a judge says.
Judge Kevin Phillips made the comments in the Queenstown District Court yesterday while sentencing Shanghai man Yichen Sun, 27, who admitted a charge
of dangerous driving relating to two incidents near Queenstown earlier this month.
Speaking through an interpreter, Judge Phillips told Sun his driving was "nothing short of atrocious".
"You were all over the road for no reason, you were drifting around corners, cutting corners and crossing the centre line.
"It's a classic case of why people need to have examinations done before taking control of powerful rental cars on New Zealand roads."
