A little peace came yesterday for the family of Carolina Patron Costas when her mother, father and brother visited the scene of her death last week following a crash on one of the Wakatipu's busiest roads.

Police are looking for a damaged station wagon after a pedestrian was hit by a vehicle and killed in Auckland early this morning.

A 17-year-old has been flown to Waikato Hospital after suffering severe injuries in a motorcycle crash.

A 22-year-old man is dead and three others seriously injured after an overloaded car lost control and landed in a ditch in Northland early this morning.

The body of a truck driver killed in a crash this morning on the Desert Road has been found.

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.