Police Commissioner Mike Bush has admitted there was some confusion around police’s summer road safety campaign.

A truck driver is in a serious condition after a truck and trailer unit carrying molasses rolled in the Coromandel, causing delays to traffic.

The Police Minister has defended his decision not to intervene in the police’s summer road safety campaign despite concerns it could be confusing and misleading.

The Police Minister has admitted he had concerns over the summer speed enforcement message before it went public, saying it was confusing and ambiguous.

Concerns have been raised about a crooked road sign and the role it may have played in a fatal crash in the Bay of Plenty which left two men dead.

Three people have walked away uninjured following a smash which left two cars on their sides in Waikato today.

The name of a Scottish man of who died in a car crash on Friday has been released.

It was a grim weekend for several families around the country, after four people - including a 9-year-old boy - died in vehicle-related accidents.

A motorcyclist has died after a collision with a car in Mangatawhiri, south of Auckland, this afternoon.

A Scottish tourist was killed and his wife and daughter seriously injured in a car crash near Havelock North.

Road crashes do not discriminate. They claim the lives of children, the elderly, mothers-to-be, teenagers, tourists, drunks, speedsters and sometimes whole families.

The man who mentored a friend of the Maori King's son says the teenager's death in a Boxing Day crash in Raglan is devastating.

Responses that promise an immediate and apparently ready-made solution to a problem have a seductive appeal.

Tourism leaders are appealing for Kiwis not to come down too hard on overseas drivers as police investigate a crash which has left two French visitors seriously injured.

The teen killed in a Boxing Day ute crash in Raglan was a friend of the Maori King's son, and a man who mentored him says the death is devastating.

A French woman is in a critical condition after a crash in Waikato yesterday in which six people were injured.

Three people were critically injured in two road crashes in the North Island last night.

The Kaimai Ranges road is closed following a head-on crash between a truck and van.

The police policy of targeting drivers as little as one kilometre an hour over the speed limit has been called ridiculous and ineffective. Is the Police 'zero tolerance' speed campaign working?

The death of a man in Christchurch overnight has brought the holiday road toll to 17 - more than double those of the last two years.

A logging truck driver suffered serious leg injuries when he fell from his truck this morning.

The holiday road toll has climbed to 16 after a passenger injured in a crash on Boxing Day died in hospital this morning.

Police say alcohol and speed are coming through as significant contributors to the holiday road.

Holiday road toll rises to 14 as family and friends mourn vibrant young woman who became first road death of 2015.

The number of people who died on New Zealand roads rose sharply last year to 297 - up 43 on 2013.

With a hot sun gleaming off the water on Manukau Harbour, it seemed the perfect summer's day to go fishing, but the holiday fishing trip was to end in tragedy.

One of the men who died while crossing the Manukau Bar yesterday has been described as "an awesome husband, dad and grandad" by his family.