A Waikato man is dead and two others injured after a three-car pile-up on the outskirts of Hamilton.

A man has been charged after allegedly hitting a woman in the rental car he was driving and fleeing the scene afterwards.

A truck driver has been praised after deliberately steering his out-of-control truck and trailer into a bank as it hurtled down a steep bank.

The two truck collision took place on State Highway 1 near the intersection of Jordan Valley Rd, Hikurangi, around 6.45am.

The Chinese tourist responsible for the death of Oamaru 5-year-old Ruby Jay Marris has been told to prepare himself for jail.

A Chinese tourist has admitted causing the death of Oamaru 5-year-old Ruby Jay Marris.

A man aged in his 40s was critically injured after his car and a truck collided near Pukekohe yesterday.

An Australian tourist responsible for a three-car collision near Milford Sound in February must pay reparation to two women injured in the crash.

A man was rushed to hospital in serious condition this afternoon after a truck and car collided in Auckland.

An Auckland couple who survived a serious crash in Canterbury are distraught over the death of their 4-year-old daughter.

The two women who died in a fatal road smash south of Auckland on Saturday morning have been named.

Waikato police are appealing for motorists to slow down after eight crashes in the district since 8am today.

The 20-year-old student who was killed when his car and a truck collided on State Highway 2 in Kerepehi on Friday morning has been named.

Crowds of out-of-control partygoers were stunned into silence when an 18-year-old's car plunged over the edge of a bank in Oropi as he fled police on Friday night.

The 18-year-old man who died in a crash after fleeing police near the scene of an out of control party in the Bay of Plenty last night was Levi Green.

A second person has died in Middlemore Hospital following a two-car crash at Karaka, South Auckland. Police said the crash happened about 6.40am on State Highway 22 near the intersection of Blackridge Road.

A child is dead and and five others are seriously injured - two critically - following a crash between two vehicles in Canterbury today.

Two men killed on Bay of Plenty roads this week have been named by police.

Police said the crash happened south of the Redoubt Road off-ramp about 6am.

The 26-year-old local, whose partner was riding another motorcycle just behind him, crashed into a car in Tauranga last night.

Tauranga Police, Fire and Ambulance services are at the scene of a single fatality crash involving a car and a motorcycle.

Motorists have found themselves in a sticky situation in Papakura after 100 litres of PVA glue spilled from a truck.

A highway patrol officer who drove a police car that hit another car on State Highway 1 will be charged with careless driving.

Rental car company finds foreign drivers failing to keep left only marginally more likely to crash.

Three people were taken to hospital after a car and truck collided on State Highway 2 in the Waioeka Gorge, south of Opotiki, last night.

A French cyclist riding on a footpath who knocked over a pedestrian and broke his hip has been ordered to pay his victim $600 before he leaves New Zealand.

A man who died after crashing his car into a tree in the Waikato was not wearing a seatbelt, police say.

A car crashed through a fence and just stopped short of a playground after a four-vehicle crash on State Highway 2.