An elderly man has been seriously injured after his mobility scooter and a truck collided in Mosgiel today.

Two men killed on Bay of Plenty roads this week have been named by police.

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.

A man who died after crashing his car into a tree in the Waikato was not wearing a seatbelt, police say.

A car crashed through a fence and just stopped short of a playground after a four-vehicle crash on State Highway 2.

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.

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 car has flipped while towing a trailer with another car in it on a motorway south of Auckland this afternoon.

The teenage driver killed in a crash in South Auckland yesterday was Brandon Rowe, 18.

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.