A grandmother jailed after driving at nearly twice the legal alcohol limit and killing cyclist Frank van Kampen on the Kapiti Coast has been released on parole after serving just half of her sentence.

A driver involved in a head-on collision that seriously injured one of the Western Bay of Plenty's top cops has been charged.

A teenage hit-and-run victim was thrown into the air "like a rag doll" when she was mown down by a speeding disqualified driver after being asked to leave a noisy party.

Name suppression has been lifted for the driver accused of killing 17-year-old Jesse Howe and injuring 10 others by dangerously driving a vehicle.

A teenage girl who drove a van that crashed and killed two men while she was more than three times the legal drink drive limit has avoided a jail term.

An 18-year-old student says he was distracted and agitated by his passengers when he crashed, killing one of them.

A 23-year-old says he had no intention of injuring a police officer who tried to stop him driving off in a patrol car after being processed for drink-driving at a checkpoint. A court has heard had earlier admitted the charge