A pilot who ran a stop and caused a car crash that seriously injured colleagues has today been ordered to pay $10,000 compensation to both victims.

Northbound Auckland traffic backed up beyond Mt Wellington after a six-car crash at Spaghetti Junction blocked several lanes yesterday.

A logging truck driver who led police on a "bizarre" high-speed chase after being pepper-sprayed was eventually subdued with a Taser.

The logging truck driver who led police on a "bizarre" high-speed chase after being pepper-sprayed is now facing nine charges.

Speed and alcohol are believed to have contributed to a fatal crash in Silverdale last night, police say.

State Highway 25 remains closed, after a collision between a motorcycle and a car left one person dead.

A pedestrian is in a serious condition in hospital this morning after being hit by a taxi in Auckland overnight.

Police are looking for the driver of a flat deck utility who may have witnessed a boy being struck down in Whakatane yesterday.

A police officer who followed a car that later crashed into a house on the West Coast, killing a passenger, has been cleared of any misconduct.

Thirteen people were treated at the scene of a crash yesterday after a car crossed the centre line in Waikato and ploughed into a vanload of people.

The morning sun glints off the Sentinel building towering above Takapuna and the citybound traffic is starting to thicken on the harbour bridge as I start up the southern span.

Police are still in the dark as to what caused a Dutch visitor to lie down on a dimly-lit Wanaka road before he was run over by a taxi and killed last weekend.

A 17-year-old boy was airlifted to hospital after suffering multiple injuries in a crash in the Hawkes Bay this morning.

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.

One person is dead after a vehicle rolled in Waikato this morning.

A high speed chase this morning saw the driver of a stolen car speeding towards oncoming traffic on the wrong side of Auckland’s Ponsonby Road.

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.