Police are urging drivers in the south to take care on roads due to black ice dangers.

Auckland's Wynyard Quarter and Viaduct Harbour now have a reduced speed limit of 30km/h.

Tunnel breakdown halted northbound traffic but NZTA says things went smoothly.

Police have taken a novel approach to pushing the anti-drink driving message.

Equestrian community wants law to slow down motorists. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Children's brains can't judge traffic, writes Michelle Dickinson.

Foreign drivers are a worry but so are local drivers, say accident first-responders.

An Uber driver who drove a couple nine hours to an important meeting could lose his job.

Heavy congestion on Auckland's motorway is easing after police incident.

Proposals to scrap Police truck and bus watchdogs prompted road safety concerns.

Officials are keen to avoid road deaths as Cyclone Cook bears down.

Yet again a Kiwi has been spotted driving with something tied to the car that shouldn't be

A serious car crash left Rebekah Holt with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This week she turned to a Kiwi motorsport legend for help.

Two people are dead in a truck-on-car collision on State Highway 4 near National Park this morning.

Families who have lost loved ones in crashes involving foreign drivers horrified at two more deaths.

A police officer was almost in tears after stopping a four-wheel drive crammed with 13 people.

Plummeting numbers of drivers caught speeding in the South Island have coincided with the deadliest year on southern roads in a decade.

Four years ago Abby Benge was as good as dead after a drunk driver ploughed into the car she was driving. Now she's one step closer to her dream.

The son of a Hamilton woman, who was texting and driving before she was killed in a crash, is pleading with drivers to put their mobile phones away.

The shocking footage was captured near Lake Tekapo in the South Island.

A safety report has revealed what Kiwis fear the most.

Police have named the man who was killed in a crash on State Highway 25 at Kopu yesterday.

The mother of a teen-boy killed in a triple-fatality car crash in Canterbury has forgiven the young man who was behind the wheel on December 26.

Motorcyclists dying on country's roads are likely to be older people, who have got more time and cash on their hands to ride deceptively powerful machines.

When the official holiday period finished at 6am yesterday there had been 15 fatal crashes on New Zealand roads since the Friday before Christmas.

Readers discussing the holiday toll have suggested the solutions lie in law improvement rather than law enforcement.

The hair-raising footage viewed almost 20,000 times showing a car weaving down a NZ highway has been condemned by police.

Police are hoping a road speed guide passed before Christmas will help turn around an alarming rising trend in the road toll.

Five people were lucky to escape from a serious crash in the Lewis Pass without life threatening injuries, due to wearing seatbelts.

A Norwegian tourist has penned a piece saying NZ roads are too dangerous and the speed limit should be changed on narrow and winding roads.