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

Police are slagged all the time for being revenue gatherers when they write tickets; now they're being criticised for trying to stop the offence before it happens, writes Kerre McIvor.

The Police Commissioner has assured the Government that there was no intention by police to run a raced-based policy over ticketing of unlicensed 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.

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.

Almost $9 million in parking and traffic fines has gone unpaid in Auckland in the past year, and the worst offender owes nearly $38k.

An Australian tourist driver who had his car keys taken from him by a member of the public while driving on the Lindis Pass earlier this month has been fined.

Last weekend we had a spectre haunting our roads: a highway vigilante. He was nameless, known only by his actions.

New drink-drive laws appear to be working but the hospitality industry says the reduced limits have made punters nervous and could badly affect bar owners.

The details of an "appalling" incident of a child riding on the roof of a Dunedin vehicle on a West Coast road will be sent to Dunedin police today for further investigation.

A member of the public stopped a tourist driving a rental car on the Lindis Pass and took the vehicle's keys, after narrowly avoiding a head-on collision.

I don't know what Michael Woodhouse found confusing about the zero tolerance on speeding campaign. The message was pretty clear, writes Kerre McIvor.

A video of a man riding a trolley down Auckland's Queen Street while being followed by police has been viewed more than 3.25 million times on Facebook.

A driver who stole a car and drove it 28km at speeds of up to 160kmh told police he didn't stop, because he had no licence and had been drinking.

A Park n' Fly customer says he came back from holiday to find his car impounded after police stopped a car valet on a speeding-related charge.

The airport parking company accused of misusing a customer's car has rejected fresh claims of drivers doing "donuts" and "hooning".

Only one person has been banned from driving under a punitive new regime for motorists who refuse to pay their speeding fines.

Tourism leaders are appealing for Kiwis not to come down too hard on overseas drivers as police investigate a crash which has left two French visitors seriously injured.

The police policy of targeting drivers as little as one kilometre an hour over the speed limit has been called ridiculous and ineffective. Is the Police 'zero tolerance' speed campaign working?

Almost half of all tickets from speeding cameras are given out in Auckland, prompting AA's plea to police to ease up on targeting low-level speedsters on citys' motorways.

Overtaking on the road safely and within the law is now all but impossible. The speed limit on the open road is 100km/h. The police are applying zero tolerance.