Easter commuters are being urged to be patient and drive home safely, with the road toll on track to be close to the record low after one fatal crash over the long weekend.

Drivers don’t divert to alternative routes unless they can see the queue, even if they’ve already been warned of a blockage.

Traffic heading both north and south out of Auckland has slowed to a crawl in places, as holiday-makers head for their favourite Easter spots.

Provincial New Zealand wants to shake down the Government for some of the largesse offered to Northland with its byelection promise of new bridges galore.

Any business case prepared before the Waterview bypass is completed will have to rely on notoriously inaccurate modelling to predict its effect on the harbour bridge, writes Brian Rudman.

Moves to prevent crashes involving foreign drivers have been encouraging but need to go further, say two boys who lost their father in such an accident.

Utah couple Tammy and Richard Barnett were on “the trip of a lifetime to New Zealand” before yesterday’s fatal crash, family say.

Two new South Otago initiatives aim to help visiting international drivers negotiate New Zealand roads safely - and neither involves key-snatching.

New Zealand, we need to have a little chat, because it probably shouldn't be up to you to steal visitors' keys, writes Heather du Plessis-Allan.

Auckland is awash with roadworks and one in 10 current projects is running behind schedule.

A French tourist who almost killed his wife has been ordered to pay almost $19,000 reparation to two of his victims before he can leave the country.

No amount of reading or reviewing prepares one for sliding into the seat behind the steering wheel and making that first leap into traffic, Theresa Philbrick writes.

WorkSafe and police are investigating a crash in which a woman on a motorbike was killed at a road works site.

A motorcyclist has died after colliding with a reversing vehicle at a road works site in Meremere this morning.

A spate of accidents involving tourist drivers this summer has led to several incidents in which South Island residents have stopped drivers and confiscated their keys.

The railway tunnel will serve only a very small fraction of Auckland's population and at a huge cost.

The road zigs left, then right, like a river winding around the mountain. There's only a ruler length between you and the edge, Heather du Plessis-Allan writes.

A Haast woman who confiscated the car keys from a Chinese tourist driving badly at Franz Josef Glacier says she did what any responsible citizen would do.

Tourists who've had their rental car agreements cancelled for dodgy driving could soon be blacklisted from hiring vehicles in New Zealand.

A fourth American has died after three members of his family were killed in a fatal collision with a truck in Waikato last week.

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.