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 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 a screech of tyres and a "thud" as a car hit and killed a 7-year-old boy running across a road outside a Wellington school yesterday.

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.

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.

Waitomo crash survivor Kirsten Steinke is on her way home to Colorado after a month in hospital following the crash that killed her new husband.

Mystery surrounds the removal of a hit-and-run victim's body to a site 10km from where she was hit while jogging.

The country's top road cop says the road toll of seven so far this Labour Weekend is disappointing.

Two mothers are among the victims of a horrific holiday weekend on the roads - one dying in a fiery crash caused by a suspected drink driver, the other in a hit and run.

Police have named one of the people killed in the Gisborne car accident in which three others also died last night.