Motorists are being urged to take care on greasy roads following a spate of weather-related accidents which kept police busy yesterday morning.
As the upper North Island experienced its first significant rainfall in some time, motorists ploughed into each other on the unusually wet and greasy roads.
Injust two hours the Police Northern Communications Centre received 35 reports of minor accidents, most of which were in the Auckland area.
Inspector Ian Brooker said that was a higher rate than normal and he attributed it to the roads, which had been left greasy by the rain.
While Mr Brooker said a full day of rain should have washed the roads down enough to prevent them from being greasy today, motorists should still take care and watch their following distance.
No one was believed to have been seriously injured in yesterday morning's accidents - which included a car hitting a house in Whangarei, a car versus a truck on the Southern Motorway and a car hitting a lamp-post in East Tamaki.
