Police caught 5000 drivers breaking their restricted licences by carrying passengers when they shouldn't last year - and prosecuted just one of them.
They issued written warnings to just 10 of them.
RNZ sought the figures from road safety policing after a ute hit a truck in Invercargill in April killing four teenagers, and following the guilty plea also in April to dangerous driving by a 19-year-old on a restricted licence in a crash that killed five boys near Timaru in August 2021.
Phil Pennington is looking into it
