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What’s Wrong With Waikato Drivers?
What is it with motorists in the Waikato and drink driving? So far 42 people have died on Waikato roads this year in 36 crashes, of those crashes 15 involved alcohol...
Tourist Drivers Mis-Behave
Foreign tourists here for the RWC are learning the hard way about our road rules. A German visitor in New Zealand for the Rugby World Cup has found himself with...
What To Do With Such Motorists?
You have to worry sometimes about how bad the Kiwi drinking problem is and why enough is not being done with repeat offenders.. At 930am this morning when school...
Drink Drivers Aren’t Getting Message
Drink drivers still aren’t getting the message especially repeat offenders. Maybe they never will. At one Auckland checkpoint last night, six drivers were...
More Proof Of Dodgy Auck Cabs
A heavily intoxicated taxi driver with three fare paying passengers in his vehicle was picked up at a K Rd police checkpoint. The male driver was stopped at a routine...
Getting the Drink Drive Message?
Are people finally getting the drink and drive message? The weekend’s police liquor crackdown gives some hope. Less than 1% of drivers tested, tested positive. Figures...
Drink Driving In Perspective
You can get the impression the roads are full of drunk drivers. This helps put it in perspective. Over 38,000 motorists were breath-tested throughout New Zealand...
The Worst 73 Drivers
72% of all alcohol-related deaths on our roads are caused by drivers who have either a prior drink driving conviction or are more than 50% over the current adult...
Joyce Reveals Driving Record
Transport minister Steven Joyce today admitted he has had 2 convictions for careless driving in the late 80s. Initially in parliament today, during the reading of...
Supermarket Caught In Alcohol Blitz
A unnamed major South Auckland supermarket has been caught in a police blitz on alcohol sales on Friday night, as part of a wide police alcohol operation. A big...
How 3 Teenagers Died
Dodgy tyres and alcohol are thought to have played a part in how three teenagers died in a two car collision on SH2 at Maramarua between the Pink Pig cafe and the...
Drunk Teen Clocked At 177k
A drunk 18-year-old has been nabbed driving a Nissan Sylvia motor vehicle at 177 kmph southbound from Tristram Avenue. It’s the latest example of an Aucklander...
70 Caught @ West Auck Checkpoint
70 drivers were caught with excess blood alcohol during a weekend checkpoint in Waitakere but no drug impaired drivers were detected. There were 11 checkpoints at...
19 Yr Old Way Over Limit
Young drivers are still not getting the message about drink driving. In Tauranga, a 19 yr old Tauranga man was spotted travelling last night at 115 km/h on a city...
Govt Backs Off New Laws
The government has backed off reducing the drink driving limits for all drivers before the next election. Cabinet decided today to do “more research”...
Police Consider Speed Limit
Police say they will be evaluating the long weekend’s low road toll before making an announcement about extending the crackdown on the speed limit. But the...
Police: Lower Speed Worked
Police say their blitz on motorists going 4k over the speed limit during the long weekend worked. There is now word that this may become the norm for traffic enforcement...
3x Over The Limit
Western Bay of Plenty police have nabbed a driver with one of the highest blood alcohol readings they have encountered. It was an alcohol reading of over 1780 micrograms...
Man Leaves Crash To Buy Booze
A Hamilton man who had already crashed his car into an elderly couple’s vehicle allegedly left the scene of the crash to buy alcohol before he crashed his...
4k Over & You’re Done
Police will be enacting a “zero tolerance” and “no excuses” speeding policy this Queens Birthday Weekend. Police will be out in force over...
New Drug Laws Catch 101 Drivers
101 drivers have already been charged under recently introduced laws to catch people driving while on drugs. The laws came into effect on November 1. Under the...
Poll: Support For Alcohol Limit
A new poll adds to claims Kiwis want tougher blood alcohol limits, as are being considered by the government. It says 70% of New Zealanders support lowering the...
Police Take To Trees
The police are going to use more covert measures to catch motorists. “We’re sick and tired of attending nonsensical preventable crashes,” says Central’s ...
The Appalling Drunk Mum
A woman caught drunk driving at the weekend is remarkably from a family personally directly impacted already by drink driving. Sergeant Ray Wylie from Whakatane...
Drunk Driver Twice The Limit
Waikato Police are horrified that a woman spotted driving on the wrong side of a busy road in Hamilton was twice over the limit. The 48 year old Hamilton woman was...
