Police have named a family of five killed in a Waikato crash, whose bodies were found today, shortly after another fatal accident in the region.

Nabbing speeding drivers in Northland used to be a rather covert affair, but in a drive to make the region's roads safer a speed camera van is no longer incognito.

An Auckland motorway tunnel has reopened after a truck crash forced its closure earlier this afternoon.

New Zealanders are dying and being seriously injured in crashes that could have been avoided with a lower drink-drive limit.

The driver of a Fonterra milk tanker was killed yesterday when his truck crashed into a drain near Dargaville. The man died at the scene, said Northland fire service spokesperson Tania Matthews.

A young driver who mowed down a pedestrian, killing him instantly, before speeding off narrowly avoided jail today.

An 18-year-old who pleaded guilty to a fatal hit and run in September will be sentenced later this morning.

The two tourists killed in yesterday's horror crash in Malborough had only just met and were sharing a ride, police say.

Rescue helicopters from Gisborne and Hawke's Bay were called out this morning to take four people injured in a road smash north of Wairoa to hospital.

Two bikers were killed on a toy run for charity when about half a dozen riders were hit head-on by a van yesterday.

Greg Reynolds has seen too many young, inexperienced drivers, older drivers and those who should know better crash outside his business.

Four people have died and fifteen others injured after a series of horror crashes on the road today.

The motorcyclist killed in a fatal head-on-crash crash in the Bay of Plenty this morning has been identified as a 21-year-old farmer.

A Westport man has been airlifted to Nelson Hospital after the car he was a passenger in collided with a row of trees this morning.

Pedestrians have suffered almost a quarter of all deaths on roads around Auckland this year, fuelling a call for greater protection from vehicles at intersections.

A 38-year-old man was killed when he was thrown into Ahuriri Lagoon in a head-on collision between two trucks on the Hawkes Bay expressway.