An advertisement in which police falsely accused a truck driver of causing a crash is unlikely to cause widespread offence, the ASA rules.

The extension of the cycling network along the busy Dominion Road in Auckland has come one pedal rotation closer, with the New Zealand Transport Agency's approval to spend $3.2 million on the project.

The cause of a fatal multiple vehicle collision north of Cambridge yesterday is still to be determined.

One person has died and four others are injured after a four car crash south of Hamilton.

A tanker with some 16,000 litres of fuel on board overturned in Bay of Plenty this morning, leaking large quantities of petrol and diesel into the environment.

A motorcyclist who was seriously injured after crashing through a barbed wire fence told people at the scene he had been drinking before the crash, police say.

A motorcyclist is appalled a heartless thief stole her bike and rode off as she lay badly injured on the road after crashing into a 4WD.

The scene of a fatal motorcycle crash on the Brynderwyn Hills has now been cleared and traffic is free-flowing.

A man is dead after the car he was in crashed so violently that the engine was thrown 10 metres from the vehicle.

Two teenagers who pleaded guilty to manslaughter following the death of their friend in an illegal west Auckland street race will not go to jail.

A young Olympic snowboarding hopeful who was killed in a fiery car crash on Sunday would have celebrated his 18th birthday today.

Police have admitted they put out incorrect information about an incident where a female pedestrian was hit by a truck outside an Auckland supermarket.

A "bright and talented" teenage snowboarder killed in a fiery car crash was a contender for the Sochi Winter Olympic Games.

A motorcyclist is dead after crashing near Tauranga this afternoon.

A school principal prevented a likely fatal accident by jumping into a 29-tonne truck veering across State Highway 1 after its driver had passed out at the wheel.

After what Geoff Purcell has been through, you might think he wouldn't be heading out for any last-minute practice rides before this year's Colville Connection on the Coromandel.

'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.