Just hours after a car in Tauranga with vice-grip steering arrangements crashed, police have revealed a second case.

Tool behind the wheel: A second vice-grip steering mod revealed.

The Waikato Road Policing Team reports the second vehicle was found abandoned in Rotorua, with the vice-grip tool still clamped to the steering column.

"This morning at about 9.15am Rotorua Police, investigating a suspicious abandoned vehicle on SH 5, Mamaku, found an unregistered, unwarranted vehicle with a missing steering wheel parked in a rural driveway."

Later an officer saw the car on the move while he was dealing with a driver caught using their mobile phone.

"The officer, whilst stopped with a driver using their cellphone whilst driving saw the vehicle driving towards Tirau, approaching a roadwork site controlled with a stop/go sign."

Police stopped the driver, who was found to be controlling it with the vice grips.

"A 28-year-old female, who gave false details, will appear in the Rotorua District Court on a number of charges including dangerous driving," the police facebook post said.

"The officer was astounded that someone would attempt to drive a vehicle in such a poor state, putting other road users at risk, on the back of yesterdays crash involving vice grip steering wheels."

The incident happens just a day after another car being driven using vice grips crashed into another vehicle in Tauranga. View the previous story here:

http://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/126040-vice-grips-used-as-steering-wheel.html