The move to raise the minimum legal driving age to 16 will be part of the Government's road safety strategy, to be released tomorrow.

NZ's minimum driving age is likely to rise by one year to 16 under a Government road safety strategy to be unveiled tomorrow.

A 20-year-old woman who ran over and injured four cyclists on the Auckland waterfront on her way to a university exam is sentenced in the Auckland District Court.

A French tourist facing charges over a fatal collision with a motorbike in Waikato on Saturday has briefly appeared in court.

Police want more effort to be put into educating foreign tourists about driving in New Zealand to stop them dying on our roads.

A young German tourist hit and killed by a truck wrote of aggressive Kiwi drivers just a few days before her death.

Holidaymakers heading back to Auckland today are being urged to take a different route to avoid one of the region's most heavily congested roads.

Experts believe publicity around new laws on cellphone use, drugged drivers and illegal street racing led to the smallest number of road deaths ever recorded.

New Zealand's road toll was running last night at its second lowest since 1960, although the police still want drivers to take extra care over New Year.

Two of the best months recorded on New Zealand roads have given officials hope that there will be fewer than 400 deaths this year.

Police in New Zealand and Australia are cracking down on alcohol related crime this weekend in the first joint operation between the two countries.