'I've been sleeping.' 10-year-old cyclist Samantha Robertson is aware of how close she came to death in a crash with a car that left her in an induced coma.

Counties Manukau police have named the man killed in a head-on crash with a truck at Maungatawhiri on Monday.

A motorcyclist has been taken to hospital after colliding with a car in central Auckland.

The driver of the truck that collided with a school bus this morning has been taken to Tauranga Hospital.

Two motorcyclists were injured, one critically, when a large three-wheeled motorcycle crashed and rolled near Motueka overnight.

Northland police say the first significant rain in weeks is causing havoc on the roads today.

A diversion to look at the scenery turned tragic for a minivan load of tourists in Southland yesterday afternoon.

Particulates from the mystery object which killed a driver last year are now being studied by Otago University researchers after ESR tests weren't definitive.

The 19-year-old man killed when he was hit by a car in Taranaki this morning has been named.

A 10-year-old girl was last night in a serious condition in hospital after being hit by a car while riding her bicycle on a rural road - the latest in a series of bad cycling accidents.

The first officer on the scene of a crash, which police tried to blame on a truck driver for using his mobile phone, says there was never any suggestion the truckie was at fault.

Police have admitted a truck driver was wrongly blamed for causing a crash featured in a road safety campaign.

A driver has had what emergency workers dubbed a miraculous escape after surviving a 40-metre plunge off a bridge in his vehicle, which landed upside-down in a river.

An innocent victim who survived a crash featured in a new road safety campaign says police have misled people and unfairly blamed a truck driver involved.

A 3-year-old girl who suffered critical injuries in a Bay of Plenty road crash yesterday has been transferred to Starship Hospital.

Motorists travelling north for the long weekend should expect delays, police say.

A motorcyclist has been killed on a rural Hawke's Bay road.

A young Greymouth man says a car fleeing police would have smashed into him in his bedroom if he hadn't moved out earlier that day.

A horror highway smash has been caught on traffic video cameras and published by police in a hard-hitting new road safety campaign.

One person is dead and another seriously injured after a car fled police in Greymouth last night.

Ironman veteran Garth Barfoot is recovering in hospital with a broken femur after a car hit him while he was out cycling.

A Chinese man's holiday to NZ took an expensive turn when he crashed his $200,000 Aston Martin Rapide on Tamaki Dr, with another $14,000 bill for the light pole he hit.