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Frustrated Truck driver throws tourist’s car keys over a fence

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web-500-BP-roundaboutBeing cut-off twice by a tourist in a rental car near Queenstown, saw a frustrated truck driver flag the vehicle down and throw the keys over a fence and into a paddock.

Sergeant Keith Newell told Stuff; the truck driver was cut off by the tourist in the rental vehicle twice on Sunday evening at the BP roundabout on Frankton Road, and then again at the Glenda Drive roundabout.

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The two intersections are a double carriageway and Police believe the female driving was cutting across the two traffic lanes.

Newell says the driver was spoken to by Police a short time later and realized that he “went too far.”

“Police do not advise the public to take that sort of action,” says Newell.

Police also spoke to the tourist about their driving.

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