Drastic action by a person who flagged down a tourist driving on the wrong side of the road and confiscated their car keys yesterday is being investigated by police.

A disqualified driver led police on a chase which reached speeds up to 200km/h through the central North Island today.

A truck driver involved in a crash that killed three members of a American family and critically injured another is receiving counselling.

The US family killed in logging truck crash on Tuesday had come to New Zealand to help 20-year-old daughter settle into her new home.

Three people killed in a collision with a logging truck yesterday have been confirmed as American citizens, police say.

The mother of one of the women who died in a two-car crash near Thames yesterday has paid tribute to her daughter.

Three people who died in a collision with a logging truck in south Waikato yesterday were not believed to have been wearing seatbelts at the time.

The reason for the heavily congested roads on Sunday, the end of the long Waitangi Day weekend, is the huge increase in vehicles numbers over recent years, writes Brian Gaynor.

This week we heard from the PM on what great shape NZ is in, thanks mainly to our extraordinary governance, writes Dita De Boni. It was a picture so incredibly rosy, I almost couldn't wait to live in that country myself.

Images of a man car-surfing on Auckland's Harbour Bridge have emerged as an Alexandra man remains in a critical condition after falling from a van travelling at high speed in Central Otago.

No city in the world has managed to pave its way out of congestion. Auckland will not be the first to succeed but it may be the last to try, writes Mark Bracey.

Motorists are urged to take care on the busy roads this holiday weekend, particularly after a spate of road crashes yesterday thought to be caused by wet conditions.

A German woman on holiday in New Zealand to visit her daughter was killed in a crash in Matakana, north of Auckland, yesterday.

One person died after a crash in Matakana and a school bus slid off the road in Manly as five incidents caused traffic chaos in the Auckland region yesterday.

Four people have been taken to hospital following a collision between an articulated truck and three cars waiting for roadworks on SH1 near Hinds this morning.

More than 640 drivers were stung with fines during a 24-hour, 84-checkpoint police road safety blitz in central Auckland yesterday.

This is the miraculous moment a driver survived being crushed between two big rigs in a nightmare pileup on an icy freeway.

A ban on cars from the summit of Mt Eden, one of Auckland's best-known sightseeing spots, has overwhelming support in a new Herald-DigiPoll survey.

A 23-year-old woman who died in a head-on collision that caused chaos for a main arterial route north of Auckland has been named.

The $1.4 billion Waterview Connection in Auckland - has passed the halfway mark now that two of the traffic ramps for its giant motorway-to-motorway interchange are completed.

It was a grim weekend for several families around the country, after four people - including a 9-year-old boy - died in vehicle-related accidents.

The benefits of city life come at a cost. Ask any ex-Aucklander and you'll hear that things began looking up as the reflection of the city disappeared from the rear-view mirror.

Police will continue their crackdown on speed and alcohol after a holiday period in which 17 people died on the country's roads.

The death of a man in Christchurch overnight has brought the holiday road toll to 17 - more than double those of the last two years.

Motorists warned that congestion is building on Auckland's major roads as weekend shapes up to be one of the one of the busiest of the past 12 months.

It's a skier's climate-change nightmare - stabbing your poles at the melting tarseal of a hilly highway, instead of the snowy crust of an alpine trail.