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.

Fleeing drivers could face more jail time and have their vehicles automatically confiscated if politicians support advice for harsher penalties.

Tributes to fugitive Alaric Eccleston, part-time rapper and 'amazing person' who jumped off Harbour Bridge to his death after being chased across city by police.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

A new website aimed at giving crucial information to tourist drivers has been slammed as a "dangerous waste of time".