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.

The driver of a suspected stolen truck tried to ram a police car before travelling the wrong way down Auckland’s Southern Motorway during a police chase.

A crash that injured four people - including two children - and closed a busy Auckland road yesterday was caused by teens driving a stolen car.

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 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.

Facing a parliamentary select committee at the age of 10 and under the gaze of television cameras caused a few nerves, Sean Roberts admitted afterwards.

The two French tourists caught in a slip in the lower Buller Gorge a fortnight ago believe they have been unfairly charged an excess of $2000 for damage to their rental camper.

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 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.

A pedestrian whose hip was broken after being run down by a cyclist riding on a footpath holds no malice but is pleased police decided to lay charges.

The three American tourists killed in a crash near Hamilton were on their dream trip to New Zealand.

The IPCA has cleared police of any wrongdoing in a chase which resulted in the death of a passenger in a fleeing vehicle.

A man has been charged after a pedestrian was hit by a cyclist as he stepped out of his doorway on to the street last month.

An Auckland pedestrian was seriously injured when he was hit by a bus on Queen St yesterday.

The driver of a Toyota Starlet who died in a crash at Maraetai early yesterday morning has been named by police.

Pam McGarva was on her way to a quiz night when a car hit hers. Now eight months later, the woman driving the other car has been charged with her manslaughter.