A 62-year-old man has died in a single vehicle crash in Southland last night.

A 31-year-old man has life-threatening injuries after his car left the road on an Auckland motorway onramp and crashed onto the shoreline.

A driver has been injured and diversions are in place on a state highway after a truck and trailer overturned this morning.

A 33-year-old man arrested over an alleged hit and run in Welcome Bay Rd has appeared in court facing one count of murder.

A man died last night after he was struck in an apparent hit-and-run on Welcome Bay Rd near Tauranga at about 11pm.

Emergency services say a small child who was trapped in a car that had hit a power pole south of Tauranga was taken to hospital, but later died.

The man who died when he stepped in to the path of a truck on State Highway 2 at Te Puna yesterday has been named.

A pedestrian has died near Tauranga, one man was found dead in his car near Palmerston North and four people were injured in a head-on collision in south Waikato.

A man is trapped in a car and critically injured after a truck and car collided on State Highway 1 south of Whangarei.

Police say a motorcyclist likely died on impact when he slid into the path of an oncoming van on State Highway 50 yesterday.

Police are seeking witnesses after reports a car veered across the centreline outside Christchurch this morning and crashed head on into a truck and trailer.

Two men were injured after a truck rolled in Canterbury yesterday.

One person died and another suffered serious injuries following a crash west of Palmerston North yesterday, which saw a car flip onto its roof.

Police urge motorists to take extra care after two people die on Waikato roads within four hours of each other.

The driver of a light truck who died in a three-vehicle collision on State Highway 2 in Tauranga yesterday has been named by police.

The driver of a truck that smashed through a barrier, plunged down a bank and landed on a motorway 7m below reckons he's had worse injuries during his jockey days.

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'Would you rather have distressed kids in the back of the car, or dead kids splattered across the windscreen?' A man defends taking keys off a tourist driver.

A tunnel near Christchurch was closed last night after a truck blew its turbo engine, causing the tunnel to fill up with thick black smoke.

Ironman competitors rushed to perform CPR on a man who crashed to the ground, bloodying his face, after he came off his bike during the event in Auckland.

A three-car smash on Auckland’s Harbour bridge has left a lane blocked, and traffic building up.

A truck driver who crashed through a barrier in a dramatic Auckland motorway smash yesterday morning says the crash is "a blur".

A member of the public stopped a tourist driving a rental car on the Lindis Pass and took the vehicle's keys, after narrowly avoiding a head-on collision.

"The hero in this story is the truck, that he was able to survive the impact and a fall like that." A driver credits his survival to airbags.

A car smashed through a fence into a suburban house early this morning.