Police have charged a 28-year-old woman who was behind the wheel of this car, using vice grips to steer.

Police have busted another driver using vise grips.

A woman's attempt to use the tools to steer an unwarranted, unregistered car with bald, flat tyres down a wet and busy road left Rotorua police officers "astounded".

It came less than 24 hours after a driver, also using vise grips to steer, smashed into another vehicle on Pyes Pa Rd, south of Tauranga.

ANDREW CAMPBELL / SUNLIVE The Toyota was allegedly being steered with vice grips when it crashed in Tauranga.

At about 9.15am on Thursday police went to investigate a suspicious vehicle abandoned on State Highway 5 at Mamaku.

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It was unregistered, unwarranted, missing a steering wheel and parked on a rural driveway.

"The occupants had long left it there days earlier," Waikato road police said on social media.

"The officer, whilst stopped with a driver using their cellphone whilst driving (‪#‎whenwilltheylearn‬) saw the vehicle driving a short time later towards Tirau approaching a roadwork site controlled with a stop/go sign (‪#‎dejavu‬)"

Police stopped the driver and found her controlling the car with vise grips.

They also found it had bald, flat tyres, making it even harder to control the vehicle on a wet and busy road, police said.

The 28 year old driver, who gave false details, was charged with multiple dangerous driving offences and would appear in Rotorua District Court at a later date.

Due to its unroadworthy condition, police slapped a pink sticker on the car, ordering it off the road.

"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 yesterday's crash involving vise grip steering wheels," police said.