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.

Traffic was at a standstill this evening on Auckland's northwestern motorway following a four-car crash.

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.

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.

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.