People with overseas licences drove well on Clutha district roads during the last three years, New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) figures show.
The figures show overseas tourists were involved only in minor injury crashes in the district - eight last year, 12 in 2012 and six in 2011.
Drivers from overseas were in the spotlight in New Zealand last year when it was reported that in 2012 they figured in 400 crashes throughout the country, including at least two involving multiple fatalities.
The statistics prompted calls for tourists to make themselves familiar with New Zealand's driving challenges.
The NZTA figures show there were 183 crashes on Clutha roads last year, only one more than the previous two years.
Provisional figures for 2013 show that of the 183 crashes in the Clutha district, two were fatal (three deaths), 15 involved serious injury, 70 minor injury, and 96 without injury.
Both 2012 and 2011 had 182 crashes - three fatal crashes (producing three deaths) in 2012 and two (three deaths) in 2011.
In December 2013, two West Otago men died after a truck-and-trailer unit rolled on State Highway 90 near Donald Rd at Waikoikoi. A Riverton woman died in a two-car crash on State Highway 1 near Paterson Rd north of Balclutha in June.
The 2013 crash hot spots were on key tourist routes rather than State Highway 1, with three crashes each near the Owaka Highway-Yorston Rd intersection, the Owaka Highway-Kaka Point Rd intersection, and 100m east of Falla Burn Rd on State Highway 8 (bottom of the Manuka Gorge).
The Clarksville Junction (SH1-SH8 intersection south of Milton), the top of the Manuka Gorge (SH8 500m south of Link Rd), SH1 100m west of Waiwera Station Rd, and The Nuggets Rd 1.3km south of Karoro Creek Rd each had two crashes.
The two Owaka Highway areas remained in the top spots over the past three years, with six crashes at Yorston Rd and five at Kaka Point Rd. Both are at the Balclutha end of the Owaka highway.
State Highway 1, 1km north of Coe Rd, had five crashes (one in 2013, one in 2012, and three in 2011).
Most crashes occurred were on bends when drivers lost control of their vehicle or collided head-on with another vehicle - 53% and 52% of crashes in 2013 and 2012 respectively, up from 47% in 2011.
Each year there are about 30 crashes on unsealed roads.
Poor vehicle handling and road factors remained the top two crash factors across all three years, with poor observation placed third in 2013 and 2011 and poor judgement third in 2012.
Speed as a crash cause rose from fifth place in 2011 and 2012 to fourth last year.
NZTA Southern regional safety spokesman Bruce Richards said the agency and its road safety partners continued to work towards a safe road system increasingly free of death and serious injury.
''Road safety is everyone's responsibility and those living in the Clutha district can play their part in creating safer journeys on our roads.''
Mr Richards said the Safer Journeys strategy took a world-leading safe system approach to improving road safety.
It recognised people were vulnerable to crash forces and could make mistakes but they should not need to die as a result.
The strategy looks at four key areas where injury and death could be minimised on New Zealand roads - making roads and roadsides safer, implementing safer speeds, encouraging motorists to properly maintain or buy safer cars to help protect them in a crash, and focusing on safer road user behaviour, ensuring everyone on the road has the skill and knowledge to travel safely.
