Why The School Run Is New Zealand’s Most Dangerous Driving TimePhoto/SuppliedAs schools return for term one, New Zealand roads are about to re-enter their most dangerous daily window – and it’s not late at night or on long-haul routes. This peak directly overlaps with the start of the school run, when parents, school buses and commercial fleet vehicles are sharing the same roads. Fatigue risk remains elevated throughout the wider morning peak from 4am to 10am, concentrating risk during the hours when families and professional drivers are most likely to cross paths. This places the school run within a period of heightened microsleep risk. Over the reporting period, the technology captured 983,750 risky driving events, including 19,336 fatigue events and 51,597 distraction events.