A Wairoa family should expect a post-Christmas visit from the police, after refusing help to get their children safely home.
Eastern District Police said they were investigating what action to take after a group of adults resisted attempts to help provide car seats for children who were not properly restrained when their vehicle was stopped at a Hawke's Bay Expressway checkpoint.
Eastern Police District road policing manager Inspector Matt Broderick said police pulled over a seven-seater Honda Odyssey on Friday night with nine people but found that two children on board were babes in arms and being held without retrains.
"We had a couple of Maori wardens with us and they had their van with child seats in it, so they offered to escort them to Wairoa, which they did.
"They took off in that direction, but we heard later that they threatened the wardens that they would jump out, if they didn't stop somewhere near Napier, Bayview.