Police will evaluate the weekend's "zero-tolerance" trial policy on speed before deciding to extend it or apply it again.

Queen's Birthday weekend has seen a drop in the overall number of crashes, with police trumpeting their zero tolerance approach to speeding as a factor.

The first person to be killed on the roads this holiday weekend was "a good mummy who loved her kids".

A holiday weekend crackdown on speeding may be extended across the year after a big drop in accidents, with one fatality so far.

"I was going to have to live with myself if he burnt to death," officer Michael O'Leary told an inquest.

Police plan to crack down on speeding motorists doing as little as 4km over the limit this weekend.

Michael Laws is stepping down for family reasons, despite suggestions he could win again.

A critically injured man who was struck by a train in Levin has woken up and acknowledged his name is Alan.

A person is dead in a crash at the intersection of State Highway 57 and Kingston Road, about 2km north of the Horowhenua town of Shannon.

Among OECD countries, New Zealand tied with Greece and Poland in having the worst road fatalities of zero- to 14-year-olds per capita.

Police have released photographs of the injured man as a "last resort" in an effort to identify him.

Police are stunned after an undercover photo-shoot snapped 54 drivers on the wrong side of the road in five hours.