With the official Easter Holiday period starting at 4pm today, police are asking motorists not to become another cross on the road.

Tauranga Police have already dealt with two crashes in Tauranga today one in Crawford Road in Bethlehem and another in Maungatapu.

A black SUV crashed with another vehicle on Crawford Road today.

Western Bay of Plenty road policing acting Senior Sergeant Wayne Hunter says a vehicle travelling along Crawford Road came around a corner on the wrong side of the road and crashed head-on into another vehicle.

He says the occupants of both vehicles were lucky not to have been injured in the crash.

'When I heard it was a head-on I thought ‘oh no' but luckily no one was hurt.”

All road users are being urged to make history for a second time this Easter holiday weekend by ensuring no-one dies on New Zealand roads.

Last year was the first Easter where no one died on NZ roads since records began 57 years ago.

The official period begins at 4pm today and ends at 6am on Tuesday, April 2.

Wayne says Police will be out in force targeting speed, alcohol and other unsafe behaviour from tonight.

'We are concentrating mainly on the main arterial routes – State Highway 29, State Highway 2 between Katikati and Tauranga and State Highway 33 out Te Puke and Paengaroa.

'All staff are working this weekend and their instructions are the 4km/h tolerance is to be strictly enforced.”

Wayne is warning motorists if they are caught doing more than 4km/h over the speed limit, they can expect to get a ticket.

Motorists travelling between one 1km/h and 10km/h over the limit can expect to receive a $30 ticket and 10 demerit points.

He is also asking people to check their driver's licence to make sure it is not expired.

'There are 400,000 that have, it just something which has passed most people.

'The LTSA write to people to remind them of their expired licence but most people have moved within 10 years and don't know their licence has expired.”

Drivers who are stopped and have an expired licence will be forbidden to drive until they can get to the AA.

'Then they will be unable to drive until at least Tuesday.

'If they get caught driving because they are forbidden then they can lose their car. It can be a whole issue over one little thing.”