A male cyclist has been killed after being hit by a truck and trailer unit outside Dunedin Hospital this morning.

A New Plymouth man is dead and another had to be cut out from a car after losing control while drag racing on a rural Taranaki road last night.

A Whangarei motorcyclist is in a serious condition after a collision with a car on State Highway 1 near Waipu.

A man has died after a car crashed into a drain near Hastings early this morning.

A man has appeared in court after being charged by police investigating a fatal hit-and-run in the Auckland suburb of Waterview early yesterday.

A two-year-old boy died after being hit by a vehicle in a driveway in Papakura, an incident believed to have happened at the home of the toddler's grandparents.

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 driver who died when his truck crashed into the Waihohonu Stream on the Desert Rd stream early yesterday has been named.

Dairy products are spilling into the Awakino Gorge on State Highway 3 after a serious milk tanker crash 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.