Mystery object that killed Rutger Hale while he was driving on State Highway 6 last year almost certainly came from an oncoming vehicle, inquest hears.

An LPG tanker that caught fire early today is blocking a Waikato road, police say.

A Dutch pedestrian killed when he was hit by a taxi in Wanaka at the weekend may have been lying on the road at the time, police say.

Police have not ruled out that a man struck and killed by a car in Wanaka overnight was lying in the road when he was hit.

A young woman suffered numerous injuries when she was pinned by a vehicle that crashed in Manawatu yesterday.

One person died in a crash between Nelson and Murchison this morning.

A teenager who died in an early morning crash on Monday was one of two siblings in the car - and his mother had to break the news to his brother in hospital.

Two bloodied and panicked teenagers stumbled from a car wreck moments after a crash killed their 14-year-old mate, pleading, "Please help, please help."

A 14-year-old boy who died when a car crashed into a power pole on Te Atatu Peninsula this morning, injuring two 16-year-olds, has been named.

Five people were taken to hospital after a crash in Kaiapoi, Canterbury, this morning.

A 14-year-old girl was injured when the vehicle she was in rolled near Takaka overnight.

Motorists in Auckland are being warned to avoid a busy highway following a chemical spill from a truck.

More than three months after a drunk woman allegedly caused a fatal head-on crash, driving the wrong way down an Auckland motorway, charges have been laid.

A woman suffered serious injuries when her car crashed down a 30-metre bank and landed in a swamp in South Taranaki.

A 24-year-old woman has died after being hit by a car in Wellington in the early hours of this morning.

Riandri De Bruyn will never forget the night of the crash. She and her friends were at a party in Auckland's Glen Innes, at the home of a friend of Riandri's older brother, Chris.

A serious crash has injured two people - one critically - and closed part of State Highway 1 just north of Warkworth.

A 30-year-old man has died following a motorbike crash in Dannevirke overnight.

A motorcyclist had a lucky escape after crashing off his bike and skidding beneath a truck in Tairua.

A woman spent two hours trapped in a car as rescuers desperately tried to free her - without dislodging it from a perch 30m below a Q'town road.

Two people have suffered from moderate injuries after their vehicles crashed on State Highway 3 in Taranaki early this morning.

A woman has admitted causing the death of popular Auckland business leader Chris Heilbronn in a road smash.

A man has been cut out of his truck after it crashed on the West Coast this morning, injuring both his legs.

Two elderly women who were killed when a car lost control and crashed into a ditch in Manawatu early this morning have been named by police.