The sister of a woman killed in a cycling accident has made an emotional plea at her funeral for motorists to share the road with cyclists.

A cyclist has been struck and killed by a truck near Taupo.

Firefighters had to pull a chunk of metal wedged into a man's leg in order to remove him from a wrecked campervan north of Auckland yesterday.

An 18-year-old man is in Christchurch Hospital after being hit by a truck in Kaikoura this morning.

A man is in critical condition after his campervan collided with a trailer on a bridge north of Auckland this afternoon. Both lanes remain closed to traffic.

One person is dead after a car crash north of Christchurch early this morning.

Optometrists are calling on cyclists to wear reflective bands on their ankles and knees because traditional reflector vests are not safe enough at night.

David Ware, managing director of publicly listed mobile radio company TeamTalk, wrote an editorial in the latest company newsletter railing against cyclists.

An Auckland teenage driver has appeared in court today charged with causing the death of a passenger who died after he was impaled on a metal rod.

Crossing the road is among the most dangerous of everyday activities - and police say even the slightest loss of concentration could have disastrous, if not fatal, results.

A man remains in critical condition after he was cut from the wreckage of his car following a serious crash in Southland.

A rockfall at Ruamahunga Bay on the Thames Coast Road SH25 has closed the road overnight and another large slip has disrupted traffic on the Karangahake Gorge road SH2. Video / Facebook - Thames-Coromandel District Council

Kiwi motorists are among the most likely to die on roads, despite having one of the more frequent road-testing regimes in the world, reports show.

Most boy racers seem to be learning their lesson, with only 127 convictions for illegal street racing being racked up by repeat offenders over the past three years.

The Lance Armstrong scandal has got Shelley Bridgeman considering what a very strange sport road-cycling is.

Motor industry lobbyists say lives and jobs will be lost as a result of changes to the warrant-of-fitness system that will see six-monthly checks become annual inspections for cars registered after 2000.