Drivers beware: Speed limit for Napier-Taupō road cut to 80km/h
The highway's claimed 25 lives in 12 years.
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Freak crash: Trailer comes off car on bridge, hitting car going other way
Freak crash injures two and causes large traffic build ups in both directions.
Speeding car's driver flees checkpoint, rolls and crashes
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Cop knocked out, man runs amok in Auckland motorway traffic
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Aussie ute driver survives mad dash across seven lanes of traffic
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Bikers take over Central Auckland streets
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Northland police investigating after boy, hit by truck and critically injured
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AT proposes speed limit changes to 800 Auckland roads
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Two cranes needed to remove truck that fell off Wellington street
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Road deaths soar in Auckland after bold new safety plan kicks in
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