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 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 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.

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.

The man accused of killing New Plymouth jogger Anne McCullough has had the charge against him upgraded to murder.