A woman who was seriously injured by a French tourist driving on the wrong side of the road wants foreign drivers put through some form of testing before they get behind the wheel.

Stephane Mazerat was ordered to pay over $18,000 reparation and banned from driving for a year after he drove up the wrong side of State Highway Three near Awakino.

The 29-year-old Frenchman was sentenced at the Hamilton District Court today.

Speaking outside court, crash victim Maria Tairawhiti says there absolutely needs to be change.

"We don't have any tests or anything, it's just a valid license that they need," she said.

"Something should be done...I don't know what."

Meanwhile, an information campaign being run in Queenstown will be extended to the West Coast as anger at foreign drivers grows.

There will be an extra 50 kilometres of rumble strips on centre lines throughout Otago and Southland along with 140 kilometres of no-passing markings, and 200 kilometres of road marked with "keep left" arrows.

More curve warning signs and barriers will also go up.

Associate Minister of Transport Craig Foss says the work's been in play for some time now, but given recent events he'd asked for a stocktake to see what could be brought forward and fast-tracked.

"Yes there has been lots of frustration expressed and I fully appreciate and understand that," he said.

"When we marry that up with some of the statistics, which don't quite correlate with some of the issues, but nonetheless there has been some concerns."

"I've asked for Transport to have a much harder look at some of the data, to cut and dice that to learn more about those that are having some of the challenges or some of the many near misses we're hearing about."