Brain Awareness Week 15 to 21 March 2010

Wellington, Feb 6 NZPA - A teenager who wrote off a $280,000 car, ending a two-hour spree of drunken offending, was jailed yesterday.

Auckland, Feb 3 NZPA - The driver of a Jeep that crashed into a police car and caused a fatal eight-car pile up on Auckland's North Shore yesterday, was a mental patient who was screaming and shouting about killing himself, say police.

A CROWD estimated at 5000 was on site at the Parihaka International Peace Festival last night. Mainstage honours went to Fat Freddys Drop, who appeared reluctant to vacate the stage, thrilling the crowd with a 90-minute set.

Transport Minister Steven Joyce says the low holiday road toll is encouraging but there is more work to be done to improve safety on our roads.

12 people died on the roads during the official holiday driving period which ran from 4pm on December 24 to 6am this morning.

Wellington, Jan 5 NZPA - New road rules and targeted safety campaigns are behind one of the lowest holiday road tolls in four decades, say police.

Wellington, Jan 4 NZPA - The holiday road toll remains about half of last year's figures as holidaymakers return home tonight after the Christmas and New Year break.

Wellington, Jan 4 NZPA - Four people are lucky to be alive after two separate rescues off the Kaikoura coast today.

A surfer saved two teenage girls after waves threw them out of their inflatable dinghy about 11am.

Wellington, Jan 3 NZPA - Two more deaths on the country's roads today sees the holiday road toll reach 11.

Two people died when the vehicle they were in crashed off the road in Northland just before 6am.

Wellington, Jan 2 NZPA - Nine people have died on the roads so far this holiday period, with the latest death involving a collision between a 68-year-old tourist and a car near Blenheim about midday today.