A 25-year-old man suffered a serious head injury after an alleged car-surfing incident in Mosgiel last night.

The Queenstown Road off-ramp on the Auckland's south-western motorway is to be closed for at least the next two hours following a motor accident.

A Canadian man has been charged over the death of a Canadian woman in a T-bone collision in eastern Waikato.

A 4-year-old boy was saved by his child seat and restraints when the car he was in and a full milk tanker collided on State Highway 1 near Palmerston.

Herbicide leaked from spilled containers after a heavy truck carrying freight crashed on State Highway 8 near Tarras, near Wanaka, early yesterday.

Sergeant Juliet Burgess of the Huntly Strategic Traffic Unit said emergency services were called to a 100km/h stretch of SH1 by the intersection with Kelm Rd about 5.18am.

A truck driver was trapped in his vehicle when it crashed on Lindis Pass early this morning, blocking the major Otago highway for several hours.

A motorcyclist who died near Rangiora in Canterbury on Friday night has been named as Shane Mark Boyd, 32, of West Eyreton.

A crash involving a passenger bus, a logging truck and two other vehicles has left a person injured in Mt Maunganui this morning.

A witness has described how there was a screech of tyres and a "thud" as a car killed a 7-year-old boy running across a road just outside a Wellington school today.

The driver of a Nissan Skyline involved in a crash with a van near Reporoa which injured nine tourists has been found by police.

The man accused of killing New Plymouth jogger Anne McCullough has had the charge against him upgraded to murder.

A motorcyclist was thrown into the air when he was hit by a 13-year-old boy fleeing police in a stolen car.

The sole survivor of a fiery crash which killed four people, including his son and partner, was getting over a recent tragedy but excited after getting engaged.