Santa Claus has admitted being in a bit too much of a rush after being caught speeding on his way to an old folks' home.

The morning after your Christmas party might be your downfall under new drink drive laws.

Since the drink-drive limit was lowered on December 1, breathalysers have been in hot demand and suppliers can barely keep up with orders.

Dunedin motorists were stunned to see a man sitting on a couch and holding on to the rear of a moving car as it left a trail of sparks behind him.

Since early settler days and gold rush fever they've been the next stop on the dusty road. A place to hang your hat, quench your thirst, and make new mates.

Lower legal alcohol limits will mean safer journeys for all New Zealanders this summer, the New Zealand Transport Agency says.

Christmas party revellers are being warned police will be out in force to snare drivers who fall foul of new drink drive limits.

Texting, reading and ogling at good-looking pedestrians are among the biggest driver distractions, an AA Insurance survey shows.

Road deaths in the past four days have contributed to a bad month on New Zealand's roads.

Japanese tourist caught cutting corners over Central Otago mountain range says he was just trying to minimise his wife's car sickness.

More than 80 per cent of drivers do not leave their details after crashing into a parked car, a new survey has found.

A repeat drink-driver's radical bid to avoid jail by having an anti-booze drug implanted into himself has been successful.

An Air New Zealand pilot caught riding a scooter without a helmet and more than two and a half times the alcohol limit has avoided conviction.

A man who can't use his legs has been charged with dangerous driving after being caught using a shortened walking stick to operate his car.

A Chinese tourist had her rental car contract torn up and rewritten by a rental company yesterday after she was pulled over for alleged dangerous driving.

Police have criticised a woman they say was drink-driving with an unrestrained child standing in the car for her "appalling and distressing" actions.

More than three months after a drunk woman allegedly caused a fatal head-on crash, driving the wrong way down an Auckland motorway, charges have been laid.

The man thought to be New Zealand's worst drink-driver has applied for leave to appeal against a jail sentence he has already served, so he can get drug and alcohol treatment.

The son of an Auckland councillor and former top athlete has been caught driving while disqualified for the third time, but will be back behind the wheel in weeks.

A bus driver who drove drunk with passengers on board says he's not the worst bus driver in the country.

An Auckland courier driver whose careless driving left a jogger's leg almost severed has been banned from driving and ordered to pay her $6000.

The following will surely attract hate mail, and the moderators of online comment will have a busy time of it. Parking wardens bring out irrational responses in sane people - and creepy responses in the slightly unhinged. But here goes.

One of the National-led Govt's final acts in Parliament this term will be to lower the legal drink-driving limit, which means motorists will face stricter rules before Christmas.

Under-fire politician John Banks has been accused of breaking the law again - this time for using a cellphone while driving.

A young West Auckland plumber has been sentenced to almost two years in prison after the deaths of two of his friends while he was driving drunk last year.

A bus driver carrying passengers in rush hour traffic was arrested for drink-driving after an alarmed motorist called police.

Crash victim Shane Summerfield has been in “unbearable pain” since losing half his family, he told a court today.