Meet Graham - Australia's new road safety ambassador who is built to survive a car crash.

Trucks are involved in nearly a quarter of all fatal crashes but, most of the time, they are not at fault. The Ministry of Transport's

GRAPHIC WARNING: A young schoolboy was hit by a moving car and flung across a busy road when he ran into the street in Singapore.

Auckland drivers are being targeted under a police operation aimed at reducing dangerous behaviour on the roads.

A new device used by law enforcement in Canada could help enforce the legal distance between cyclists and cars on the road.

But Crown cars picked up only 13 speeding tickets.

Road Safety Week focused on heavy vehicle safety down South with 1000 heavy vehicles stopped and 104 infringement notices issued between May 16 and 22.

Police are advising pedestrians to watch their step after more than a hundred were fined last year for jaywalking.

Learner driver nabbed breaking speed limit, and a number of other laws.

Six out of every seven New Zealanders aged 16 to 24 with driver's licences are breaching their licence conditions, an official study has found.

COMMENT: I have made a solemn promise to myself and my children that there is one rule I will now follow. I will never text in the car again.

Many of us are guilty of it: texting or using Facebook while crossing the road, but should we slap those that do with a fine or possible jail time?

The report shows few short-term visitors crash within their first few days in New Zealand, and if they do, fatigue is generally not a contributing factor.

An unexpected guilty plea from a transport operator yesterday has bought a long-running Worksafe prosecution to an end.

Kiwis heading away this long weekend are being urged to be extra careful on the roads with heavy traffic expected.

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Require every repeat drink driver and those caught at extremely high levels to have an alcohol interlock put in their car, writes Mike Noon.

Drink-drive convictions have fallen by a third in five years but the percentage of repeat offenders has remained almost the same.

The Chinese community has rallied around the family of a man who was killed by a drink driver after discovering the culprit was one of their own.

Raphael Giles' plea follows seven days of carnage on the roads. Up to 17 people have died, taking the year to date's road toll to 65 last night.

WATCH: "My baby [could have] ended up flying straight past me and into the windscreen. The thought of it is still haunting me."

A learner driver carrying a passenger was driving more than double the posted speed limit in wet conditions when he was pulled over by police.

Two tourists photographed urinating out of a moving rental car on a state highway were met by police today when they returned their vehicle.

Police say actions of two men who were photographed urinating out the windows of a car driving on a Southland highway "irresponsible" and "extremely dangerous".

A person died late last night in a collision between a truck and a car in the Waikato.

Police say the accident happened at the Fendalton Road crossing in Christchurch, shortly after 8am. Senior sergeant Anton ten Hove confirmed the deceased is an adult male. He is yet to be identified.

Motorists not driving to conditions - and impatience - appear to be the themes of crashes which have killed five people so far this long weekend.

A woman with two children in her car was caught driving almost four times over the legal breath alcohol limit.

WATCH: An Auckland man has footage of a driver who damaged his motorcycle in a hit-and-run incident - and he wants your help to identify him.