Tara ShaskeyOpen Justice multimedia journalist, Taranaki·NZ Herald·28 Aug, 2026 11:00 PM5 mins to read‌Helen Anita Epprecht Bucchieri was travelling to the Three Sisters rock formations in Tongapōrutu when she crashed. A motorist waved, yelled and whistled in a desperate attempt to stop a Swiss tourist driving on the wrong side of a highway.But seconds later, he heard “an almighty bang” as Helen Anita Epprecht Bucchieri collided head-on with a ute.

Epprecht Bucchieri was holidaying in New Zealand when the