Milk tankers stopped collecting milk in the Far North after a 14-year-old boy was killed when his bicycle collided with a Fonterra tanker.

Police have now cleared the scene after a truck caught fire on Auckland's Southern Motorway.

A hit-and-run driver who nearly killed a professional New Zealand cyclist in the US has pleaded no contest and faces up to 10 years in jail.

The uncle of a late night hit and run victim believes the teenager who today pleaded guilty to killing him should go to jail for a long time.

A teenager has pleaded guilty to a late night hit and run in Christchurch last month, which killed one person and injured another.

A woman who was lost on the Rimutaka Hill for at least eight hours after her car veered off the road last night was "remarkably'' uninjured.

A mother was probably distracted for only a moment before a crash with a bus that claimed her three-year-old son's life, a coroner has found.

The tight-knit community of Kaikoura is mourning the loss of a man whose body was believed to have been found in a burnt-out van near a popular surf beach.

Children in their first two years of primary school will be legally required to be restrained in car seats, but experts say it's height that matters.

Child restraints will be mandatory for children up to the age of seven under new rules announced by Government today.