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Holidaymakers urged to 'take it easy'
Holidaymakers driving home have been urged by police to "take it easy'' on the roads and plan the return journey to ensure they get home in one piece.
Holidaymakers driving home have been urged by police to "take it easy'' on the roads and plan the return journey to ensure they get home in one piece.
Fatal accidents, breakdowns and huge traffic backlogs have plagued the first four days of the official Christmas road toll period.
A 15-year-old drink driver was on a 24-hour curfew when he allegedly stole his friend's father's car and was spotted driving with no headlights on Saturday.
Not even a $2.86 billion rail tunnel will stop morning traffic in downtown Auckland from grinding down to half its current speed within a decade, a study says.
All northbound lanes on Auckland's southern motorway are now open after an overturned truck caused traffic chaos.
Rush-hour traffic in central Auckland will slow to walking pace in 10 years if the central city rail tunnel isn't built, a confidential report warns.
A tourist route where an American honeymooner died has been identified as one of the country's riskiest roads to drive on.
Letters threatening stern action for non-payment are being sent out by debt-collecting agency Baycorp.
Cows caused traffic chaos on a major motorway south of Auckland after a cattle truck overturned this afternoon.
A man who left his four-year-old child home alone then tried to evade a police checkpoint is one of 17 facing drink-driving charges after a Bay of Plenty crackdown.