A mother who was driving with her 3-year-old child in the rear seat was texting before she lost control of her vehicle, flipping into a ditch.

Auckland Transport's cost estimate for upgrading Dominion Rd has ballooned by 40 per cent to $66.3 million.

Editorial: A conference at the Aotea Centre heard last week that traffic lights would be redundant one day thanks to interconnected fleets of driverless cars.

A lowered speed enforcement threshold is "no silver bullet", according to the country's top road police officer, following four more road deaths this long weekend.

A woman has described how a man bounced off the front of her car and on to her windscreen before rolling under a bus.

Detectives have joined officers from the serious crash unit to investigate the death of a 27-year-old Auckland businesswoman in a road smash.

A cyclist, a young pedestrian and a driver were killed and one person was seriously injured on the roads this weekend.

His farm-registered SUV and makeshift lean-to with rudimentary kitchen shelves has occupied a prime corner of Auckland's waterfront for more than a year.

The glitzy showroom on Sydney's York Street has housed its fair share of luxury cars. Today, however, it's home to a bevy of smashed-up motors.

Government will introduce a "one-strike" policy for suspected drink-drivers who evade prosecution because medical staff cannot extract a blood sample.

The official description of an advanced stop box is an area in front of a general traffic lane on an approach to a signalled intersection.

Six people have died in accidents involving motor vehicles over the weekend, three of them motorcyclists.

At least one young Kiwi motorist will die on a New Zealand road this week.

If it was harder for young people to get a driver's licence, families like the Roberts would not have to live every day in anguish.

Champion motorsport ace Greg Murphy says New Zealanders are "terrible" drivers and the country has a culture where road safety isn't taken seriously.

A principal says her college will keep promoting safety messages to young people after seven teenagers were involved in a serious crash.

Every year at this time schools run an awareness safety programme when it comes to dropping off and picking up kids, writes John Dybvig.

Morgan Tait got behind the wheel with instructor David Bishara to see how her skills compared to testing criteria.

A spate of motorcycle fatalities has prompted police to warn riders to reduce speed, with an expert claiming motorists can be 'twits' after four riders were killed.