Motorists not driving to conditions - and impatience - appear to be the themes of crashes which have killed five people so far this long weekend.

A woman with two children in her car was caught driving almost four times over the legal breath alcohol limit.

WATCH: An Auckland man has footage of a driver who damaged his motorcycle in a hit-and-run incident - and he wants your help to identify him.

A tourist driver is facing two charges of careless driving causing injury after a head-on crash near Queenstown.

To those that park on the yellow lines at and around Judges Bay Rd, please learn the road code and abide by it.

He received abdominal injuries and was flown with his mother to Tauranga hospital in a "moderate" condition.

Holidaymakers are set to clog up the roads.

In an already congested city, red light runners add needless delay to our intersections, forcing other drivers to wait and check before accelerating once lights turn green, writes Barney Irvine.

Female drivers are more likely than men to suffer memory blanks behind the wheel and are more susceptible to allowing their minds to wander, a study has found.

WATCH: Police have praised the calm response of an officer who was confronted by a driver accusing him of cutting him off.

Snapped and fined for driving through a red light? Yes please, say an overwhelming majority of motorists in our biggest city.

The Super City has a super parking warden who issued nearly double the value in tickets than the next best warden in the last financial year.

A speeding driver branded an 'idiota' by police has used the excuse of being "young and dumb".

An Auckland motorist was stunned to open his mail and find a speed camera had pinged him twice for the same offence.

The man was one of 16 people injured -- two of them critically -- in the accident on New Year's Eve.

A popular YouTube blogger was snapped doing 141km/h and fined $400 by police.

More than 8000 drink-drivers were caught in the first year of New Zealand's lower alcohol law - and issued fines totalling more than $1.6 million.

When the Christmas-New Year period ended for accident statistics on Tuesday morning, 12 more people had died on the roads.

A tourist caught driving at breakneck speeds in the Waikato area claims he thought he was doing 80km/h.

A Christmas Day crash in Northland has brought the holiday road toll to one, dashing hopes for zero fatalities.

Crash data from a notorious piece of road popular with Auckland holidaymakers could hold clues on how to lower New Zealand's road toll.

WATCH: The grieving mother, the lucky survivor, the road safety chief.

Police are urging motorists to practise safe-driving procedures in a bid to keep down the number of crashes, injuries and deaths.

The man has been disqualified from driving for two months and ordered to do 120 hours of community work.

It's an experience that can cause many top public servants a touch of dread - and hours in PR-coached preparation.

Police will again be enforcing a reduced 4km/h speed threshold for all of December and January.

The inspections were aimed at eliminating the increased risk of drivers travelling greater distances on our roads

New technology forcing motorists to drive to the conditions on the notorious road over the Kaimai Range will be unveiled today.

Five people killed on the roads, with police describing toll as "disappointing".

Automobile Association road safety spokesman Dylan Thomsen said the that was "puzzling", although the toll was on a long-term downward trend.