Friday's headlines: Red flags raised over potential prying on patient medical records in Canterbury; driver of crashed van believed to have fallen asleep at the wheel; Christchurch is boy racer capital of New Zealand.
Dominion Post
The Dominion Post leads an accident in Hawke's Bay on Thursday when a van carrying eight members of the same family veered off the Napier to Taupo Road and plunged 10 metres down a steep bank. A five month-old baby and five others were seriously injured.
NZ Herald
The New Zealand Herald also leads with the Hawke's Bay crash and says the driver is believed to have fallen asleep at the wheel.
It also reports that the vehicle might not have been discovered for hours had a man and the baby not been thrown from it before the plunge.
Waikato Times
The Waikato Times takes a look at the number of serious or fatal crashes in the Waikato involving drivers on overseas licenses.
New figures issued by the NZ Transport Agency show tourists were at fault in 78% of the fatal smashes since 2002 and those statistics, combined with the recent death of a Chinese visitor in Southland on Sunday, have prompted calls for better education of tourists before they start driving in New Zealand.
Otago Daily Times
The Otago Daily Times says Christchurch is racing away with the title of boy racer capital of New Zealand. Between December 2009 and June 2013, it says the city recorded twice the number of illegal street racing offences than the next highest centre - which was Manakau.
The Press
The Press reports that almost 80 clinicians in Canterbury have raised red flags for potentially prying on patient medical records in the two months since the country's first online health database began.
Canterbury District Health Board rolled out the electronic Shared Care Record View system in September, which allows community nurses, GPs, pharmacists and hospital clinicians access to the medical records of 400,000 patients.
The system has been hailed by the health sector as a revolutionary life-saver, but it also raises some prickly privacy questions as medical records are about as private as it gets.
