The boy fell from his motocross bike and was struck by another motorcycle in the Bay of Plenty.

The death of a motorcylist after his bike collided head-on with a car is the latest in a series of tragedies that happened over the weekend.

The accident happened in Waimana in the rural Bay of Plenty.

An Auckland man who lost a leg in a motorbike crash in the US says he has cheated death.

The 44-year-old man was walking with an associate alongside the road when he was hit by a truck.

A man who was killed when he was struck by a milk tanker near Te Puke last night has been named.

Two people were taken to hospital after a car went into a ditch in Morrinsville early this morning.

The injured patient was airlifted by Waikato Westpac Rescue Helicopter to Waikato Hospital.

An ambulance spokesperson said the child was taken to hospital with minor injuries.

Nearly 30 more people have died on the roads so far this year than at the same time last year.

A Hamilton man will fight a serious driving charge over the death of his friend and fellow motorcyclist on the outskirts of the city earlier this year.

Two trucks have crashed in southeast Auckland, causing major traffic delays, police say.

A crash which killed a teenage girl this week is the second fatal accident to involve an Onyx rubbish truck in Birkenhead in recent years.

The older sister of the 19-year-old woman who was killed in a rubbish truck crash in Auckland says she was dreading seeing the site.

Emergency services are at the scene of a crash, near the intersection of Riccarton Rd and Clyde Rd in Christchurch this morning.

One person is dead and another injured after the rubbish truck they were in plummeted 10m down a bank.

Temperatures got as low as -6C in parts of Otago overnight, and councils throughout the South Island are warning of widespread black ice and severe frosts.

The man who spent the night out in the open after his car came off the road in the Coromandel has his friends to thank for his rescue.

A volunteer firefighter is mourning the loss of his son who was killed when the motorbike he was riding and a truck collided near Matamata last night.

Emergency services were called to the crash but were unable to save the man who died at the scene shortly afterwards.

Police have named the truck driver who died in a three-vehicle crash near Levin last night.

Phillip John Ballantyne, of Invercargill, died after a 1993 Landrover Discovery rolled after taking a bend on Otatara Rd near Currans Rd last night.

Traffic is easing for evening commuters on Auckland's Southern Motorway after two crashes caused headaches this afternoon.

Specialist staff including a serious crash investigator attended the Invercargill crash scene and planned to continue their examinations this morning.

The owner of a Papamoa superette says his mum is lucky to be alive after a car smashed through dairy's wall and tore the store apart.

The woman who died in a two-car crash in Queenstown on Friday was Jennifer Claire Scott, 76.

Emergency services were called to the scene of the crash in Beachlands this afternoon.

Justice David Gendall found no fault with the 18-month jail term handed to Jing Cao (32), of China, earlier this year.

Police have named the who died after he was thrown from his motorcycle on Whanganui Beach yesterday evening.