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.

Police are urging young people to take lessons from the tragedy that killed Cheyenne Hemana, 17, and her two nephews.

The father of a disqualified driver who died in a high-speed collision yesterday is urging youngsters to report their mates if they are driving illegally.

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.

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.

A motorcyclist who suffered life-threatening brain injuries after he crashed during a police pursuit says officers are not to blame - despite a highly critical report.

A long-serving traffic officer says a judge's decision to discharge a drink-driving sportswoman without conviction has made a mockery of the system and undermined police.

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

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.

A local politician from a leafy, well-to-do village has been charged with drink-driving and refusing to accompany a police officer.

Learner and restricted drivers will no longer be able to put off their graduation to a full licence after the Government announced plans to set a five-year time limit.

The proposal to lower the blood-alcohol limit for driving from 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood to 50mg dates back to at least 2001.

Police have waived 112 fines for drivers using cellphones since the ban came into place.