The truck driver who ploughed into a motorway overpass, bringing Auckland to a standstill has been sentenced.

A police officer was almost in tears after stopping a four-wheel drive crammed with 13 people.

Police disappointed at poor driving across Auckland region.

More Kiwis are being fined for mobile phone offences than for drink driving, according to the latest data from NZ Police.

Speeding car problems in Halswell could be on the rise.

A repeat drink driver offender wants to ensure he stays off the road when he's intoxicated, but ACC refuse to fund his alcohol interlock.

A man was sentenced today after an incident last year when he doused his victims in petrol and threatened to set them on fire.

Police took the unusual step of breathalysing a man who was tucked up in his bed at home.

A Waikato driver may have to take a week out of the dating game, after he was stung with a fine for Tindering behind the wheel.

Canterbury drivers are the top offenders in the country when it comes to using their mobile phones and not wearing their seat belts.

A man whose alcohol addiction had "overwhelmed him" since the death of his wife, fell asleep drunk in the back of the Greymouth District Court

Six out of every seven New Zealanders aged 16 to 24 with driver's licences are breaching their licence conditions, an official study has found.

An Auckland motorist was stunned to open his mail and find a speed camera had pinged him twice for the same offence.

The message from police during the Rugby World Cup is "expect to be stopped anywhere at any time" for alcohol breath tests.

We seem to have lost our capacity to be kind, whether it's raising the refugee quota, feeding hungry kids in schools or sharing the road, says Kerre McIvor.

Zero tolerance was the holiday message to motorists - yet staff at our road safety agency went over 100km/h on 33,000 occasions.

336 fines paid by drivers of police vehicles in past year; 612 tickets waived because of 'need to respond urgently'.

Road safety campaigners are calling for a ban on the use of wearable technology, including smartwatches, by drivers.

Police officers are being told not to ticket unlicensed Maori drivers caught behind the wheel.

Police won't say how many motorists have sought a review of their speeding tickets after last weekend admitting botched checks of hand-held cameras.

The speed limit on any road should be appropriate to its design and condition, not the subject of a default 100km/h setting.

Drivers have admitted to using internet banking, writing Facebook posts and even playing games on their smartphones while behind the wheel.

Despite the fact that using mobile phones in cars has been illegal since 2009, the numbers flouting the law are on the rise, writes Kerre McIvor.

More drivers were caught by speed cameras and on their mobile phones in Waitemata than anywhere else in the country last year.

A road-safety advocate says the Government is not doing enough to prevent tourist crashes.

Threats to burn down a driving tester's home and to call down divine retribution on another's children are among a growing number of abuse cases faced by licensing staff.

Rental car company finds foreign drivers failing to keep left only marginally more likely to crash.

An on-duty taxi driver who blew a reading of more than four times the legal breath-alcohol limit told police he'd had "one Kingfisher beer".

None of us needs convincing that to answer a phone while driving is highly dangerous.