A young driver who hit and seriously injured two Taupo cyclists has had an appeal against his conviction dismissed.

A judge says a 3-year-old boy would have been terrified when Calvin Zabell threatened to kill him and his mother during a drive from Lower Hutt to Masterton.

You have to hand it to the National Road Safety Committee. These public servants don't conceal their view that the Cabinet needs to lower blood-alcohol limits for drivers.

A high-profile criminal lawyer, convicted for drink-driving three times, now spends $800 a month in taxis so he can go to the pub every night, a tribunal heard today.

Senior legal figures do not believe there is a problem with the number of drink-drivers before the courts who receive a discharge without conviction.

Judges let off around 50 people a year for drink-driving - with reasons ranging from models wanting to work overseas and wannabe police officers and nannies.

Driving with a heavy cold could be as dangerous as driving drunk, a new study shows, and researchers say sick drivers need to know the risks.

A coroner is calling for a law change after a driver jailed for killing a woman was allowed back behind the wheel - because his ban expired while he was in prison.

Former policeman George Wood says he did not realise he was breaking the law by taking a cellphone photograph while driving across the harbour bridge.

A Hamilton teen is dead and his 14-year-old mate is in Waikato Hospital with critical injuries because of a series of poor decisions that led to a crash, police say.

A lawyer for a drink-driving sportswoman urged a judge to let her off partly because she was a Maori who grew up poor but managed to excel in her field despite her hardship.

Police are considering appealing a judge's decision to discharge a sportswoman on drink-driving charges.

A woman caught driving while allegedly almost three-and-a-half times over the legal alcohol limit had two small children in the car, horrifying police who stopped her.

A Queen's Counsel has blasted a judge who gave a drink-driving sportswoman a discharge without conviction, saying the decision "condones" her criminal behaviour.

A drunken man who caused an accident in Wanganui wanted to have one more drink of cask wine after being stopped by police.

Parents who drive drunk with children in the car should be reported for child abuse, says a child advocate.

The number of people dobbing in dodgy drivers has decreased since cellphone use while driving was banned three years ago.

The terrifying moment when a skateboarder crashed at high speed in front of a car which had been towing him has been caught on film.