A trailer being towed by a ute flipped on a Canterbury motorway this afternoon, spilling chemicals onto the road, and slowing traffic.

A Manawatu man was seriously injured when he was struck by a motorcyclist in a hit and run incident over the weekend.

The tourist responsible for the death of Oamaru 5-year-old Ruby Jay Marris has been jailed.

A close friend of Alana Madill has paid tribute to a woman she says was an "exceptionally vibrant person".

An Auckland man has escaped any penalty after accidentally killing his 2-year-old son in a driveway, and his lawyer says the prosecution seemed "pointless".

Police are investigating a spectacular crash overnight in Christchurch where a nd flipped onto its roof.

A teenager was critically injured and had to be cut from his car after a crash left it wrapped around a tree.

Nearly $14,000 has been raised for the daughter of former All Black Jerry Collins.

About 1500 people rallied in Narbonne late last night to pay tribute to former All Black Jerry Collins and his Canadian partner Alana.

Family and friends have made it to Montpellier to be beside Jerry Collins' critically-injured baby daughter, including her aunt from Canada and extended Samoan rugby family.

The woman who died alongside All Black great Jerry Collins in a horror crash that left their baby daughter fighting for her life never planned to be a mum.

Richie McCaw has paid tribute to his former loose forward partner Jerry Collins, saying he was a loyal and intelligent team-mate with an awe-inspiring physical presence.

A person is dead and another seriously injured after a crash in south Canterbury this afternoon.

A Mainfreight truck has been left on the edge of a 15-metre cliff following an accident.

The health of Jerry Collins' baby daughter is improving as she fights for her life in hospital following the French car crash that killed her mother and father.

In a game full of hard men, Jerry Collins, the kid from Porirua, stood out head and shoulders - and 58cm biceps - above them all.

The passenger of a car that crashed in Feilding yesterday has died in hospital.

Children among four people hurt after truck rolls in the Bay of Plenty, with one of the four critically injured.

Two pedestrians have died and one is in hospital in a serious condition after being hit by vehicles in separate incidents in the past two days.

A person has been taken to hospital after being hit by a bus in central Auckland tonight.

An elderly woman has died after being hit by a van in Orewa this afternoon.

Auckland police have named the pedestrian killed after being hit by a truck in the central city last night.

An empty school bus and car collided on a corner trapping the driver of the car and blocking a Northland road this morning.

A reduced Queen's Birthday weekend road toll is still not good enough, say police.

A man has been killed by a falling tree in Northland as ferocious thunder storms and lightning strikes bore down on Auckland and the upper North Island.

The pedestrian who was hit by a truck on Fanshaw St in Auckland tonight has died.

A learner driver who killed two Mosgiel siblings - including his then girlfriend - has robbed a mother of seeing what her children would become, he was told this morning.

The country’s top road cop is lamenting the deaths of five people over the Queen’s Birthday holiday weekend, including a 5-year-old boy who died in hospital yesterday.

There were feral scenes outside a Dunedin courthouse as associates of a learner driver jailed on two counts of manslaughter took their anger out on the media.

A Kiwi mother managed to shield her 8-month-old baby from injury as they tumbled 10m down a ravine in Spain.