01:49pm Wed 26 Nov, 2014
The death of a 'bubbly” elderly local has re-ignited an age-old argument in support of a bypass around Katikati. 88-year-old Shirley O'Connor died in hospital... Read More
07:57am Wed 26 Nov, 2014
A Papamoa woman escaped with a cut to her chin after a three-car crash on Girven Road overnight. Mount Maunganui Fire Brigade arrived outside the Girven Road shops... Read More
03:55pm Tue 25 Nov, 2014
Learner and restricted licence time limits are set to be halved as part of a new system aimed at improving the safety of novice drivers and motorcyclists. From Monday,... Read More
12:30pm Tue 25 Nov, 2014
A nine-year-old from Timaru is petitioning to get the law around foreign drivers on New Zealand roads changed following the death of his dad in a crash which also... Read More
08:37am Tue 25 Nov, 2014
One of the country's last combined road/rail bridges is closed for repairs this week. The Pekatahi bridge on SH2/White Pine Bush Road from Awakeri To Taneatua will... Read More
01:15pm Mon 24 Nov, 2014
UPDATE 2.25PM: The woman hit by a truck while on her mobility scooter is being taken to Tauranga Hospital in a serious condition. Emergency services were called... Read More
01:08pm Mon 24 Nov, 2014
New lower drink-drive limits are being welcomed as an opportunity for Bay of Plenty drivers to help 'significantly” reduce the nation's alcohol-related crash... Read More
11:24am Mon 24 Nov, 2014
Western Bay of Plenty Police are 'extremely disappointed” drier summer conditions on the road are yet to translate into a decrease in weekend crashes. Between... Read More
04:46pm Fri 21 Nov, 2014
Tauranga is one of four New Zealand cities participating in the urban kiwiRAP programme - a risk assessment process for urban road transport. The programme is a... Read More
02:05pm Fri 21 Nov, 2014
A 44-year-old motorcyclist who crashed his unregistered and unwarranted Aprilia motorcycle into the rear of a car on SH2 east of Cambridge Road, was also unlicensed,... Read More
08:40am Thu 20 Nov, 2014
'Beyond words” is how a Waikato road policing officer describes a drunk driver's behaviour as she sped through a rural crash scene, putting emergency workers... Read More
01:46pm Wed 19 Nov, 2014
A cockroach running across the dashboard of a vehicle caused a driver to take her eyes off the road before a three-car crash this afternoon. Police and St John Paramedics... Read More