Fifteen fatalities upset the armchair experts, but the bigger picture shows there's no need for alarm, says Eric Crampton

Police Commissioner Mike Bush has admitted there was some confusion around police’s summer road safety campaign.

The Police Minister has defended his decision not to intervene in the police’s summer road safety campaign despite concerns it could be confusing and misleading.

The Police Minister has called on New Zealand Police to undertake a review of their "confusing" Summer Road Safety campaign.

The Police Minister has admitted he had concerns over the summer speed enforcement message before it went public, saying it was confusing and ambiguous.

Concerns have been raised about a crooked road sign and the role it may have played in a fatal crash in the Bay of Plenty which left two men dead.

A 65-year-old woman was left injured on the side of a road after a hit and run incident in Waikato yesterday.

It is never advisable to judge a policy on what will probably turn out to be a short-term abnormality.

Special rules for overseas drivers are favoured by the majority of New Zealanders, according to a Herald-Digipoll survey.

With a hot sun gleaming off the water on Manukau Harbour, it seemed the perfect summer's day to go fishing, but the holiday fishing trip was to end in tragedy.

One of the men who died while crossing the Manukau Bar yesterday has been described as "an awesome husband, dad and grandad" by his family.

Three stricken boaties spent up to two hours treading water after their 5m vessel was swamped by a freak wave while crossing the treacherous Manukau Harbour bar, killing two other crew members.

Police are urging care on the roads over the holidays as a four-car crash leaves one person critically injured.

Police are putting their traffic enforcement focus on holiday black spots to keep the annual road toll from surging above 300 deaths.

With the annual summer exodus to the beach about to begin, motorists are being warned to take care while driving this festive season.

Tourists renting cars across the country will now find simple road safety tips on the steering wheels.

A Marlborough couple have been fined $20,000 each following multiple instances of riding a quad bike without a helmet.

It's the season for normal sedate drivers to lose their rag and become absolute maniacs on our roads.

In his Herald column yesterday, Matt Heath proposed we shift Christmas to the middle of winter, for sentimental reasons.

John Key has ruled out an earlier construction date for a second harbour crossing in response to huge traffic jams which brought Auckland roads to a standstill on Saturday.

City leaders question why a crash on the harbour bridge brought Auckland to a standstill. We look at the options for easing congestion if it happened again.

It has been a bad year on the roads, with a sharp increase in deaths compared with this time last year, as well as a big rise in pedestrian fatalities.

Some punters anxious to avoid penalties under the new drink-drive limits are expected to acquire a taste for lower-alcohol tipples.