A coroner says high visibility clothing should be compulsory for cyclists after the death of a senior police officer who was hit by a truck while riding his bike.

A truck driver is dead after a fully laden truck and trailer unit rolled down a bank leaving a timber mill in Whangarei.

Germany's Jacqueline Zech says she had the "best father ever" in an emotional tribute after her dad died in a motorcycle crash north of Wanganui.

The German tourist who suffered life-threatening injuries to his head and face when his motorcycle collided with a four-wheel-drive north of Wanganui yesterday afternoon died in Wanganui Hospital overnight.

An elderly man has died and two others have been cut from the wreckage of a two-car crash north of Christchurch this afternoon.

The family of a young man killed in a Waikato hit-and-run hopes an upcoming inquest will finally reveal how he died.

A man has been arrested over the fatal car crash in Auckland that left a passenger impaled on a steel rod.

An Auckland teenage driver has appeared in court today charged with causing the death of a passenger who died after he was impaled on a metal rod.

Bette Eavestaff's hopes of a quiet start to the day crashed in around her as a car ploughed into her bedroom yesterday.

Edwin Kidwell cannot remember his mother. But her death when he was 3 has had a "dark" impact on his life.

They should never have been on the bus. But a mix-up with their booking led to 36 people hopping aboard a dilapidated coach that would become a death-trap.

A man remains in critical condition after he was cut from the wreckage of his car following a serious crash in Southland.

A New Zealand woman described as a pharmacological nightmare will be deported from Australia after running over and killing two teenage boys while high on prescription medication.

The teenager driving in the fatal Bethlehem College crash would not have been legally allowed to drive the ill-fated van.

The teenage son of a Rotorua woman whose death in a car crash prompted a national campaign against texting and driving says more needs to be done to stop distraction behind the wheel.

The driver of a Fonterra milk tanker that ended up in a ditch at an intersection outside Kaitaia on Sunday morning is to be charged with careless driving.

New Zealand police will inform Kenyan authorities that the driver of a minivan that crashed killing four people was an 18-year-old Kiwi, not a local man.