Waikato Police are urging learner and restricted driver's license holders to adhere to their graduated driving conditions or face the consequences.

District Road Policing Manager inspector Freda Grace says this call comes following an incident near Te Awamutu this morning that could so easily have ended with tragic circumstances.

'Shortly after 8am emergency services were called to a rural location where a car failed to negotiate a bend and was reported to have careered into a group of children waiting for a school bus.

'Fortunately, on arrival at the scene on Pokuru Rd near Te Awamutu, police and ambulance staff found the situation was not as bad as it could have been.”

'It appears a car failed to negotiate a gentle bend and crossed the centre line before colliding with one of four students waiting at a bus stop by a driveway.”

The student who was hit crashed into two others, while a fourth was understandably quite shaken.

Responding ambulance staff treated the secondary school students for status 3-4 injuries at the scene.

Freda says the car came to a rest in a nearby hedge and the 17-year-old male driver was being spoken to by police.

The driver attended a different secondary school to the victims and Freda believes no serious were caused due to 'extremely good luck than good management”.

'The driver of the car was driving by himself, in breach of the restrictions of his learner drivers' licence.

'For this crash to happen the day after a collision between a milk tanker and another learner driver near Taupiri yesterday morning, there is clearly a need for focus in this area.”

Freda says the restrictions associated with graduated licences were in place to allow new drivers to develop their driving skills in a safe and graduated manner.

'They are there not just for the safety of the newer drivers but for the safety of those other road users sharing the road with them.

'Clearly the incidents over the past two days show there is a lot of room for improvement.

'Motorists can expect to encounter Police at any time and in any place across the Waikato checking drivers' speed, behaviour, sobriety and compliance with any restrictions to their drivers' licenses.”