Traffic on Auckland's Southern Motorway is now flowing free, after a cement truck and a car collided earlier this morning.

A man has been seriously injured after his car crashed into a tree in Wairarapa overnight.

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.

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.

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.

A 51-year-old man died after being flung into the path of an oncoming vehicle in a crash in Waikato over the weekend.

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 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.

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.

Peter Larmer's quiet Sunday at home on his Levin farm was shattered when a car crashed through two fences and a verandah post, and came to rest upside down on his lawn.