The Central District region had no fatalities on its roads over the holiday period for the second year in a row.

Officially, the holiday period began at 4pm on Christmas Eve and ended at 6am on Tuesday.

Central Districts road policing manager Inspector Dave White said this was the second year in a row no fatalities had occurred on Central District roads over the holiday period but there had still been crashes.

"Across the country there were 12 [fatalities] and that's sad, 12 families had their holiday season [ruined] with the tragedy that comes from road accidents."

He said they had quite a few people using the *555 service to report dangerous driving over the holiday period and they managed to apprehend some drivers through this.

These were actions they wanted to see continue as well as people taking care on the roads.

"The holiday period is finished but every day on the road you need to drive to the conditions... the risk is still there."

White also wanted to remind people the safe summer road campaign was still running until the end January, so 4 kilometre speed restrictions were still in place.

Over the holiday period the booze bus was also out in Taranaki and Manawatu and White said both teams apprehended people who were drinking and driving.

The bus was out on New Years Eve and New Years Day, with one person caught drink driving in Feilding at about 4pm on New Years Eve with a reading of 1300 milligrams.

"We often get asked why we're doing checkpoints in the afternoon and unfortunately we find people drink driving at those times.

"It indicated to us that drink driving isn't just an issue on traditional Friday, Saturday nights.

"I think some of the population just don't seem to care about putting other people at risk."