The driver of a grey hatchback is being sought following a collision with a motorbike in Rotorua this morning.

A toddler who died yesterday after she was hit by a car driven by a relative in her West Auckland driveway has now been named by police.

A person has died in a crash between a car and a truck on State Highway 1 south of Whangarei.

A coroner says law changes are urgently needed to get more dangerous drivers off the road, after an inept foreign driver caused a crash killing two motorcyclists.

A man being treated for drinking petrol was killed after he jumped from an ambulance and into the path of a truck in the Hawkes Bay, police say.

An inspection of a bus has shown there were no mechanical faults to cause it to crash into a ditch with 50 school children on board.

A Hawke's Bay mechanic says he found two women - one unresponsive, the other trapped and covered in blood - as he rushed to the scene of a serious crash near Hastings yesterday.

A man in his 60s has died in a crash on the Northern Motorway, north of Auckland.

A woman who spent 14 hours alone with the wreckage of her car after she crashed down a bank had to set her car on fire to attract attention.

A mother who endured the Canterbury earthquakes and then lost her 12-year-old daughter in a horrific car crash will give a keynote talk about resilience later this month.

Police are investigating whether another vehicle was involved in the crash which flipped a rubbish truck, killing its driver.

One of Auckland's busiest motorways could be closed for hours after a fatal rush-hour crash. One truck driver died after the cab of the recycling or rubbish truck he was driving separated from the truck and "ended up on the opposite side" of the Southwestern motorway.

It was 5.30 in the morning when this truck crashed over a bank and became entangled in vegetation. Rescue workers are surprised the driver is still alive.

A motorcyclist was killed when his bike and a truck collided near Tauranga this evening.

The three tourists from Hong Kong were killed when their rental van and a truck and trailer unit collided in Central Otago.

Five tourists were injured when their Toyota Land Cruiser rolled down a bank in Otago yesterday.

A French family travelling near Mount Cook had to be rescued out the back of their upturned campervan after it flipped in strong winds.

A Maheno teenager is fighting for his life after being struck by a milk tanker near Maheno in Otago early yesterday.

An Auckland family are devastated at the death of a man who was struck by a car while lying on an unlit rural road early this morning.

A male pedestrian was hit by a truck and seriously injured on State Highway 1 in Otago last night.

Police say human error was to blame in three fatalities on roads during the Labour weekend holiday.