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Lane blocked after truck and trailer roll in Waikato
A truck and trailer rolled in Waikato overnight but the driver was not injured.
A truck and trailer rolled in Waikato overnight but the driver was not injured.
The mother of a 12-year-old boy hit by a car as he walked home from school is being chased for damages by the driver's insurance company.
Allan Hubbard died in a head-on car crash caused by his elderly wife, not by the other driver accused of careless driving causing his death, a court has been told.
A Kawakawa man is lucky to be alive after a spectacular crash in which his ute shot off a bridge, Dukes of Hazzard style, and landed on the far side of a river.
For the first time since records began there has not been a single road death during the Queen's Birthday weekend, and police say it is a "very positive" result.
Police were tonight hoping for the first-ever Queen's Birthday weekend without a single road death.
Police are urging motorists to drive to the conditions after a fatality-free start to Queen's Birthday Weekend.
It was a messy start to the long weekend for thousands of Aucklanders yesterday when a car crash closed part of the Southern Motorway, just before the official Queen's Birthday holiday period began.
The mother of two teenage sisters killed in a Christmas Day 2011 crash near Tauranga says she has forgiven the man responsible for their deaths.
Five people have died in crashes on the country's roads already this week, as police brace for Queen's Birthday weekend - a notorious period for road fatalities.
The driver of a vehicle that crashed near Tauranga on Christmas Day 2011, killing two children, has been sentenced to seven years and six months in prison.
A woman has been charged for driving drunk and causing the death of 17-year-old Shayna Kumitau in February.
The parts of the country which become more dangerous to travel through during Queen's Birthday weekend have been revealed in a police bid to cut the holiday road toll.
Maori elders blessed the scene of a fatal car crash in South Wairarapa this morning where the body of the 17-year-old crash victim lay covered on the road.
Industry groups accept more needs to be done to improve trucking safety after two fatal crashes in the 8 days since a campaign was launched to reduce fatal accidents.
A second fatal collision between two trucks in just over a week has left a union official asking what more can be done to stop people dying.
Two trucks are blocking State Highway 4 in the central North Island following a crash this morning.
One man has died after a head-on crash between two trucks in the Bay of Islands this morning.
The pair accused of bashing and abducting a man before stealing his car in the Kaimai Range - an event linked to the death of a Tauranga teen - will remain behind bars.
Whenever I see a white cross on the side of the road while I'm driving, it's a powerful reminder to take care.
A woman has been airlifted to hospital after reportedly being kidnapped and dragged behind a car in a domestic incident near Tokoroa this afternoon.
A woman was trapped when the car she was in left the road and crashed into some trees in Hamilton this morning.
A car has crashed through the front door of a petrol station on Auckland's North Shore.