A woman has been killed after being hit by a truck in South Waikato early this morning.

Motorists say lack of information about closed roads around Taranaki added more than six hours to their journey.

A wooden fence post fell off the back of a truck and went through the windscreen of a vehicle the driver was passing.

The bus driver and a 10-year-old child are among the four people killed after a bus carrying a junior college football team to its first game ever crashed.

A search operation was mounted after people were feared missing in a Christchurch river from a car wreck.

The young woman killed in a fatal crash in Southland on Thursday has been named as 18-year-old Hayley Taylor.

A newborn baby was among the children who were thrown from van.

Police are looking to speak to a woman driver involved in a bike vs vehicle crash in Invercargill on Friday evening.

A male pedestrian has died after being hit by a logging truck pulling out of a gas station near Nelson.

A police spokeswoman said they were called to a two-car collision around 3.20pm.

Three people have been rescued from a car which went over a cliff south of Westport.

One person is a critical condition and two people have moderate to minor injuries following a serious crash south of Auckland.

A man who had been missing from his home in the Ohuka area inland from Wairoa for nearly a week was found this morning deceased inside his crashed utility.

A stolen car ploughed into a stationary police vehicle in the Waikato this afternoon as the officer laid road spikes to stop the fleeing driver.

An elderly pedestrian has been seriously injured after he was struck by a vehicle in South Auckland this morning.

A dump truck filled with soil has crashed backwards down a bank crashing into a parked car.

A person has died in a serious crash between a campervan and car south of Thames this morning.

A man has died after being thrown from a 4x4 vehicle when it rolled, while an 11-year-old was also injured in separate incident after her motorcycle collided with a car.

A man has been critically injured after a motorbike crash in the Waikato this afternoon.

A crash on the Northwestern Motorway in central Auckland is causing major traffic delays.

An ambulance officer is being treated for moderate injuries after an ambulance hit ice and slid off the road on the Southern Motorway near Dunedin tonight.

A St John ambulance hit and injured three people outside Auckland Hospital.

A smash between two trucks left a lane blocked on Auckland's northern motorway this morning.

A mourning family is preparing for the possibility the man who pleaded guilty to causing a crash which killed Dunedin man Riley Baker may never serve prison time.

A person was flown to hospital in a critical condition after a two car crash in Taranaki earlier today. Police say the crash happened

More than 3700 police staff have asked for work-related trauma counselling in the last five years - with a senior association figure

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A woman has died following a crash on State Highway 2 at the intersection of Hebden Crescent, Lower Hutt.

Motorists heading south in the City of Sails have been told to expect delays.

The blaze sent a plume of black smoke into the air above the South Western Motorway.