Government road builders in the thick of the country's largest transport upgrade are designing yet another project for Auckland's western ring route.

An Auckland woman, whose careless driving resulted in the death of a pedestrian, has been sentenced to 12 months supervision and disqualified from driving for nine months.

A man seriously injured in a motorcycle crash in central Auckland on Friday night lost control of his motorbike.

Emergency services workers helped a man from his car as it hung precariously from the back of his hillside garage in Normanby, Dunedin, yesterday.

A car bursts into flames near the Birkenhead off-ramp of the Auckland Harbour Bridge yesterday moments after the driver jumped out.

We think of death on the roads as something that happens to other people. But when that other person is someone we feel we know, it rams home the reality, writes Paul Thomas.

A trailer being towed by a ute flipped on a Canterbury motorway this afternoon, spilling chemicals onto the road, and slowing traffic.

The tourist driver who caused the death of Oamaru 5-year-old Ruby Marris is appealing his jail sentence.

''Today Mr Cao has received his sentence, but it doesn't matter what it is, as nothing will bring our Ruby back,'' a statement from the couple said.

A close friend of Alana Madill has paid tribute to a woman she says was an "exceptionally vibrant person".

A teenager was critically injured and had to be cut from his car after a crash left it wrapped around a tree.

Nearly $14,000 has been raised for the daughter of former All Black Jerry Collins.

About 1500 people rallied in Narbonne late last night to pay tribute to former All Black Jerry Collins and his Canadian partner Alana.

A person is dead and another seriously injured after a crash in south Canterbury this afternoon.

A Mainfreight truck has been left on the edge of a 15-metre cliff following an accident.

The health of Jerry Collins' baby daughter is improving as she fights for her life in hospital following the French car crash that killed her mother and father.

In a game full of hard men, Jerry Collins, the kid from Porirua, stood out head and shoulders - and 58cm biceps - above them all.

A car that struck a power pole cut electricity to 600 homes in Auckland this morning.

Two pedestrians have died and one is in hospital in a serious condition after being hit by vehicles in separate incidents in the past two days.

A person has been taken to hospital after being hit by a bus in central Auckland tonight.

An elderly woman has died after being hit by a van in Orewa this afternoon.

Auckland police have named the pedestrian killed after being hit by a truck in the central city last night.

An empty school bus and car collided on a corner trapping the driver of the car and blocking a Northland road this morning.

The mother of Mosgiel brother and sister Shannon and Danielle Kiriau has slammed the jail term handed to the pair's killer.

A reduced Queen's Birthday weekend road toll is still not good enough, say police.

The pedestrian who was hit by a truck on Fanshaw St in Auckland tonight has died.

A learner driver who killed two Mosgiel siblings - including his then girlfriend - has robbed a mother of seeing what her children would become, he was told this morning.

The country’s top road cop is lamenting the deaths of five people over the Queen’s Birthday holiday weekend, including a 5-year-old boy who died in hospital yesterday.

There were feral scenes outside a Dunedin courthouse as associates of a learner driver jailed on two counts of manslaughter took their anger out on the media.