Police have arrested an English woman (19) after she drove 1.5km down Gorge Rd and Arthur's Point Rd on a wheel rim after a tyre blew out on her car.
Constable Phil Hamlin, of Queenstown, said the woman, who worked in the resort, was arrested at 11.25pm on Saturday on the Arrowtown side of the one-lane Edith Cavell bridge.
She had continued driving after crashing into a bank.
Noticing the erratic driving, a member of the public called police and when an officer arrived the woman refused to go with him.
After failing an initial breath test she was taken to Queenstown police station where she refused a blood sample.
She faces charges of refusing to accompany an officer and refusing a blood- or breath-alcohol test.
• Two women, aged 18 and 22, and a 14-month-old baby were treated at Lakes District Hospital for minor injuries after a campervan driven by a Motueka woman (63) swerved in front of the car they were travelling in at Arrow Junction about 2pm on Saturday.
The car was driven by a Cardrona man (46), the father of the two women.
Neither driver was injured in the crash but both vehicles were extensively damaged.
Const Hamlin said one of the women was thrown into the car windscreen and paramedics took the three injured to hospital where they were treated for minor bruises and abrasions.
• Smoke seen billowing on to Lake Wakatipu early on Saturday evening was from a controlled vegetation burn in Te Anau, Queenstown Fire Service station officer Duncan Fisher said.
