Two expert reports about an incident in which a wedding guest was run over on a Waikato road were ignored by a police crash analyst, a coroner's inquest has been told.

It is turning out to be a bad afternoon for Auckland commuters, as two motorway crashes near the central motorway junction disrupt traffic.

A truck and trailer unit has tipped over and hit a parked car in the Auckland suburb of Parnell.

A man who came across William Hoskins dying on a rural Waikato road last January says the driver who had run over him "put his foot down" and drove off from the scene.

A motorist has died in Manawatu this morning after an intersection crash between a truck and a car.

Four people were injured, two seriously, when two cars collided in Lower Hutt this afternoon.

A 24-year-old woman was killed when her car left the road and crashed into a ditch off State Highway 1 in Manawatu last night.

Two people were trapped after a head-on collision between a car and logging truck in which one person was critically injured near Taupo this morning.

The family of a woman killed in a cycling accident are "stunned and horrified" no one will be charged over her death.

An elderly cyclist has died in hospital after being hit by two cars in Mairehau, Christchurch yesterday.

A man who saved the life of a toddler trapped in a car submerged in a Nelson river has been hailed as a hero.

A woman has died and two others injured when the car they were in submerged in Saltwater Creek in Nelson.

A man escaped with minor injuries after the Fulton Hogan truck he was driving rolled 50m down a bank into a Brighton creek near Dunedin yesterday.

When a Rotorua woman who drove into two pedestrians tried to explain to a judge she'd only had two glasses of wine, he asked 'What were they - buckets?'

Eileen Veronica Sealy, 52, was thrown from her car on State Highway 30, near the junction of Maraeroa Road, at Benneydale, early on Monday.

The police watchdog has raised concerns about officers' actions while pursuing a drunk driver through south Auckland, which ended in a crash that left a passenger dead.

A woman has died in a crash in Waitomo early today. The crash happened on State Highway 30, near the junction of Maraeroa Rd, at Benneydale, about 3.30am, police said.

A 19-year-old woman is seriously injured after she was crushed against a house by a car in west Auckland last night.

In October 1989 a scooter accident changed Lee Warn's life forever - but not in the way you would expect.

A pedestrian who died after being hit by a truck on State Highway One in Raumati, north of Wellington, early this morning, was hitch-hiking in dark clothing, police believe.