Five people in a party of fourteen were taken to hospital when a Shotover Jet boat collided with a cliff wall near Queenstown yesterday at 3pm. Among the inured are people from Germany, the United States, Britain and New Zealand. It’s thought that another seven people sustained minor injures and that the boat was damaged…
A brief report into the death of British tourist Tom Donaldson has just been made in the Northern Advocate. According to the paper the coroner said that “Visitors wanting to experience New Zealand’s adventure tourism should be warned that they are taking a risk. That message, from Northland’s coroner, comes as the region prepares to…
Almost three years after her death and there still hasn’t been an inquest into the death of British tourist Emily Jordan. Emily Jordan drowned whilst participating in a commercially organised river boarding adventure on the Kawarau River in New Zealand on 29 April 2008. In August 2009 Mad Dog River Boarding was prosecuted for…
The findings of the Coronial inquest into the death of Tasmanian neurologist Dr Stanley Siejka have recently been published in The Press. Tasmanian Dr Siejka died in a fall whilst skiing at the Porters Ski Area in South Island, NZ in September 2009. Dr Siejka’s death was a major blow for medical services in Tasmania,…
South Island, still reeling from devastation caused by this morning’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake, has been slammed with another disaster this afternoon. Nine people lost their lives and one was injured in a plane crash at Fox Glacier airport. Reports are that the plane burst into flames shortly after takeoff. It’s thought that the plane was…
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