Driver reviver to the rescue

Western Bay roads remained fatality free as the national road toll for Easter spiralled to its worst in more than a decade.
A male passenger in a car that crashed during a bungled overtaking manoeuvre near Taupo yesterday took the Easter road toll to nine - the worst since 1994.
In the Bay, police issued tickets to speeding drivers and held a "driver-reviver" stop at Rangiuru, targeting fatigue.
Highway Patrol Sergeant Deidre Lack said an Auckland driver heading over the Kaimai Range, towing a trailer, was clocked doing 136kmh.
The legal speed for towing is 90kmh.
"Some people just don't listen and continue to speed. Everyone knows it's an area police are targeting," Ms Lack said.
A 46-year-old Te Puke man was pulled over by a police patrol about 4pm yesterday and allegedly blew 1360 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath - more than three times the legal limit of 400mcg for a driver over 20.
Other motorists heading home yesterday pulled over and used a roadside driver reviver stop - the first to be held in the Western Bay.
Over the four hours, 81 drivers and a total of 210 people, chose to stop and revive themselves with free coffee and a sausage sizzle.
A survey done at the roadside stop in the car park of Affco revealed that, on average, motorists had been travelling four hours before stopping.
One driver reported travelling non-stop for six hours.
Some of the first drivers into the fatigue stop shortly after it opened at 1pm seemed grateful for the free beverages, face painting and sausages.
The Watts family of Pukekohe had travelled from Whakatane before pulling over.
Stephen Watts said they had to stop regularly anyway for the children - Jayden, 4, Dion, 2, and Kirsten 7 months -but the idea of the fatigue stop was great.
"If people are travelling long distances and pushing themselves after a long weekend this is an ideal place," he said.
Teressa Watts said the stop would help keep her awake.
Val Broughton and her four-year-old daughter Erina stopped after travelling from Taneatua.They had hours of travel left ahead of them before reaching Taranaki.
"I was curious, actually. I've never seen these before. ``I thought if I start out refreshed it will make it easier on in the trip," Ms Broughton said of the reviver stop.
Auckland couple Mike Rongo and Christine Scott found the lure of free coffee and sausage sizzle too much to pass up and pulled in.
They were on their way home after an Easter holiday at Ohope Beach. After refuelling they were ready for the three hour trip home.
Tauranga and Western Bay road safety coordinator Lynette Hines said the stop was successful but better signs could have seen more drivers stop.
"The roads were fatality free and we would like to think that maybe this reviver stop contributed to that in come way," Mrs Hines said.
"More signs could have enticed a few more people and that's something we will look at."
Yesterday's fatal crash happened at 2.15pm on a straight stretch of Stage Highway 5, about 7km east of Taupo.
Two vehicles travelling east appeared to have collided when passing a third vehicle.
One of the vehicles slid off the road and down a 5m bank, killing the front-seat passenger, a 24-year-old Taupo man. The driver and another passenger suffered minor injuries.
The high road toll has angered the country's top traffic bosses, who say the fatal crashes happened despite a high police presence on the roads.
Acting road policing manager John Kelly expressed frustration that the message "speed kills" was not getting through.
"We've been hammering on for a long time about the dangers of speed but it seems at least six of those fatalities came from crashes where speed was a major factor."
Police have named a 16-year-old girl killed in a two-car crash on State Highway 73 near Arthur's Pass on Sunday as Samiri Dawn Hanson of Greymouth.
Three other people died in crashes on Sunday - in Northland, Counties Manukau and the eastern Bay of Plenty.
Four people died near Pukekohe on Friday when the car they were in crashed on State Highway 22.