An 11-year-old boy took two friends on a joyride through rural Auckland suburbs in his parents' car for up to an hour before crashing into a truck yesterday.

A woman has died in hospital after the mobility scooter she was driving and a vehicle collided in Levin last Thursday.

An 11-year-old boy was lucky to escape injury after crashing his parents’ car into a truck while trying to flee police.

Trees saved a driver who plunged 25m down a bank in his car this morning.

A teenage German tourist has today admitted careless driving after a crash on the West Coast caused by his driving on the wrong side of the road.

A man who died after falling from his motorbike north of Whangarei was run over by a following rider on a Harley Davidson as he lay in the middle of the road.

The man killed in a collision on State Highway 33 at Paengaroa yesterday was Ian Barton Foote, 47, from Te Puke.

Police are working to piece together events that lead to the death of a man who came off his motorcycle north of Whanagrei this morning.

A truck driver is in serious condition after his truck collided with a utility vehicle in Southland this afternoon.

German tourist who ran a stop sign and caused a crash that killed a Canterbury mother-of-two ordered to pay compensation to grieving children.

A Christchurch truck driver has today denied killing a tourist cyclist.

A 21 year-old woman has handed herself into Auckland police after a hit and run that left a man with serious injuries on Sunday morning.

Six Dunedin students are lucky to be alive after their car was torn apart in a horrific crash.

A car has flipped while towing a trailer with another car in it on a motorway south of Auckland this afternoon. No-one was seriously injured in the incident, which took place on the Southern Motorway close to the intersection of State Highway 1 and State Highway 2, north of Pokeno, shortly before 2pm, Inspector Andy Brill of the police northern communications centre, said.

A car has flipped while towing a trailer with another car in it on a motorway south of Auckland this afternoon.

The teenage driver killed in a crash in South Auckland yesterday was Brandon Rowe, 18.

A man who died in a two-car crash in Christchurch yesterday has been described as "a loving man" with a "one-of-a-kind authentic personality".

A pedestrian is dead after a truck hit them last night.

A German tourist driver involved in a head-on collision on the yesterday has been charged with careless driving causing injury.

Moves to prevent crashes involving foreign drivers have been encouraging but need to go further, say two boys who lost their father in such an accident.

One person has died in a crash in south Auckland this morning.

A tourist allegedly driving on the wrong side of the road hit another car head-on on the State Highway 6 Coast Road between Greymouth and Westport this morning.

A new traffic light at a Dunedin intersection - officially turned on just last month - was knocked over yesterday.

A prominent Queenstown businessman who crashed a Harley-Davidson motorcycle while on a joyride, injuring himself and a friend, is defending a charge of aggravated careless driving.

A woman suffered serious head injuries in a collision between a car and a truck today on State Highway 1.

A teenager is seriously injured following a crash involving a car and a skateboard in west Auckland overnight.

A truck driver has been critically injured following a crash in the central North Island overnight.

Two tourists are critically injured after their vehicle and a logging truck collided on a busy rural Waikato highway today.

The American tourist who drove into the path of a truck, killing his wife and two friends, has been fined $4500 after pleading guilty to careless driving.

Name suppression has lapsed for the Chinese man charged with causing the death of an Oamaru 5-year-old in a crash near Moeraki.