This poor woman

[kiwi_2005]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4314876a10.html

You gotta feel sorry for her, killed 4 people on motocycles while driving a camper van in NZ, saw her on the News last night shes truly broken. We get a lot of this with tourist they come here hire a camper van then go see the scenery. Been cases of tourists driving on the wrong side of the road, others rolling there camper vans, others hitting back of vehicles, i think its time we employ bus drivers just for tourists only.

Oh and not to forget the families of the dead they be suffering the most.


An Austrian tourist whose careless driving killed four motorcyclists in a head-on smash near Fairlie on Sunday says her sadness for the victims' families is overwhelming.

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Heike Schellnegger, 30, an architect, pleaded guilty in the Christchurch District Court yesterday to six charges - four of causing death and two of causing injury by careless driving.

Motorcyclist Gavin MacDonald, of Timaru, died at the scene of the crash about noon on Sunday on Highway 79. His 11-year-old daughter, Olivia, died the following day in Christchurch Hospital.
The other two people killed were a British man and woman who had been living at Pleasant Point, near Timaru, for the past six months.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Lisa Goodson said Schellnegger had been driving a Britz campervan when she drifted into shingle on the left.
She over-corrected and veered across the centre line into the path of a group of motorcyclists travelling towards her.
The front two riders had no time to avoid the van. One rider was killed at the scene and his pillion was thrown 15m over a hedge and also killed.
The second bike was carrying MacDonald, with his daughter riding pillion.
The riders of two motorcycles coming up behind swerved or struck other vehicles, and two received broken bones and cuts.
Schellnegger admitted what had happened in her police interview.
She said she had been driving around New Zealand for a month and had covered about 5000km without incident.
She has no previous convictions. She holds an Austrian driver's licence and an international licence.

[Letum]

:cry:
It always shakes me up when I hear about a fellow motorcyclist killed on the road.

A friend of mine and his son where killed by a car driving on the wrong side of the
road with no headlights on a few years back. The car was driving like that to avoid
speed cameras.

More than any other road user we are at the mercy of other traffic.

Check for motorbikes guys! Look twice when pulling out and check your left (UK) mirror
on roundabouts.

[Chock]

Damn, that's bad. Having once had a really bad motorcycle crash (in which I actually died, albeit briefly, and was subsequently revived in an ambulance, all courtesy of a taxi driver who then fecked off from the scene and was never caught) it always makes me somewhat annoyed when motorists do this kind of thing.

:D Chock

[bookworm_020]

I feel sorry for her and the families of theose killed, as well as the two that were injured.:cry:

[SUBMAN1]

...Oh and not to forget the families of the dead they be suffering the most.... Don't count on it. This lady is ruined for life mentally. She is the one that may need the most sympathy. I've seen this before. Guaranteed she is wishing she was dead in their place 100x over.

Regardless - a great tradgedy for all involved.

-S

[Reaves]

I can understand that it was an accident all too much. Drifting left she hit loose stones on the side of a road while travelling 100kmh. Due to the fact she's in a campervan she over corrected which is easy to do when not used to such a large vehicle.

Horrible for all involved including the police, ambulance and fire service people who would have attended the scene. Think of them the next time you get a ticket for speeding.