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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are vacationing in NZ, and this story involving a guy from home is all over the local news, and now locals also mention it to us when reminding us to drive on the left. I really wish Americans would try harder to avoid bad press abroad that affects other US visitors!

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/us-tourist-brett-reck-hit-car-on-highway-near-nelson-after-driving-on-wrong-side-of-road-for-10-minutes/ALUMKN4ZAFHCFG4DPCGZPZB554/[/quote]

Hun, I have been coming and going from New Zealand for nearly 40 years. I used to live there. The kiwis have ALWAYS reminded visitors to drive on the left.

Road fatalities in NZ is always national news. Kind of like the sunburn time on the radio. Because you know, no ozone and shit. [/quote]

In reality, there are many more newspaper articles in NZ about bad Asian tourist drivers.

It's actually quite hard to switch between driving on different sides of the road. It's ok on a divided highway, but pulling out of a parking lot, or on a lonely road, you have to think quite hard. All the driving lessons that were drilled into you as a teenager now have to be performed in mirror image.

In summertime, I'm convinced that all the senior journalists in NZ go on vacation. They tell the junior reporters left in the office to just write about road accidents.

The rate of road fatalities in Virginia is higher than in NZ, despite Virginia having one of the lower rates in the US. The difference in media coverage is quite stark though.

Maybe it's because there's about two degrees of separation in NZ compared to six here, so you're likely to know someone who was good friends with that guy who was killed in that horrible crash in Timaru or Taupo or Taranaki.[/quote]

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