Dear Mr Bollard,

I acknowledge your email of 17 February 2016, requesting, under the Official Information Act:

“I am writing to inquire about the total tourist related crashes, and driving infringements, Careless driving, Wreckless driving and anything that endangers the lives of all New Zealanders that are on the road.

This information is to be provided to parliament to change driving laws for the safety of New Zealanders, This information only needs to consist of how many of each during the year, Resulting in, Injury, Death or vehicle collisions.

Currently the statistics do not contain where the drivers are from, I am requesting all requests of the persons driving the vehicle. No private information eg names, dates of birth need to be disclosed but i am requesting that the statistics of the amount per country eg, China, Japan, Spain, England - The road rules are alot different then other places in the world and i am wanting to find out why there are so many crashes caused by tourists.

When talking about tourists i am not requesting the information about the persons who have permanent residency who are from overseas, nor the persons with but the persons with the following visas

Temporary Work Visa
Persons Visiting on holiday or business
Persons Temporarily Studying in New Zealand.”

We will consider your request and respond appropriately, as set out in the Official Information Act 1982.

Regards,

Jess Stewart
Graduate Adviser
Ministry of Transport – Te Manatū Waka

T: +64 4 439 9060 | www.transport.govt.nz
Ensuring our transport system helps New Zealand thrive

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Dear Marc

 

Thank you for your OIA request of 16 February. I have been assigned to
complete your request.

 

My understanding from your request is that you would like to know about
people with

 

Temporary work visas

Persons visiting on holiday or business

Persons temporarily studying in New Zealand

 

…who have been involved in a crash, or issued with driving infringements,
careless driving, reckless driving and similar offences.

 

The information I can provide is from the Crash Analysis System. This is
an integrated computer system that contains data from all traffic crashes
reported by Police. Police record all the data from a crash into this
system. For infringements and other offences the Police would hold this
data. We only have the data related to crashes.

 

In addition, Police are only able to record whether the driver was driving
with an overseas licence and the country in which it was issued. They
cannot determine the visa status of the driver and so this information is
not recorded in the Crash Analysis system so I am unable to provide this
for you.

 

With these limitations, do you still want the information about crashes
involving overseas drivers, given that I cannot disaggregate the data
according to visa status and bearing in mind that a person may drive on
their overseas licence for up to 12 months before having to convert it to
a New Zealand licence?

 

I am very happy to discuss with you by phone if you would like to call me
on the number below. I have a meeting now but will be free after 1215
today.

 

Best regards

 

Helen

 

Helen  McNaught

Senior Policy Adviser

Land Transport Safety

New Zealand Ministry of Transport

 

DDI +64 4 439 9050 

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@motnz

 

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Dear Mr Bolland

I attach the Ministry's response to your request for information made via the Ministry's website on 16 February 2016.

Regards

Helen McNaught
Senior Policy Adviser
Land Transport Safety
New Zealand Ministry of Transport

DDI +64 4 439 9050
[email address]
@motnz

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