Traffic & Crashes

Diesel spill in Mount Maunganui

Update 10.00am: Firefighters are at the scene of an oil spill from a truck in Mount Maunganui. Fire and Emergency New Zealand communications northern shift manager... Read More

Truck lands on car bonnet in Judea

A rubbish truck has ended up on the bonnet of a car in a Tauranga cul-de-sac. A SunLive reader reports that an EnviroWaste truck has rolled onto a black Honda... Read More

Road safety advocates “devastated” by road toll

Young Kiwi road safety advocates from Kaitiaki o Ara - SADD are devastated at the level of deaths on New Zealand's roads for the 2022/23 holiday period and... Read More

Ex Cyclone Hale forces road closures in Coromandel

The storm system created by ex-Tropical Cyclone Hale has caused flooding and slips on State Highways in the Coromandel, Napier and Gisborne regions. Tairāwhiti... Read More

Crash on SH29 near Oropi

Emergency services are responding to a vehicle crash on State Highway 29. Police were advised at 6.30pm that a car has rolled on SH29A, near the intersection... Read More

SH25A closes due to slip

A slip has closed State Highway 25A Hikuai to Kopu. "Due to a slip on SH25A the road is blocked between Hikuai and Kopu," says a Waka Kotahi NZTA spokesperson. "Contractors... Read More

Ex-Cyclone Hale: Further road closures expected

UPDATE 2.40PM: Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is advising motorists that State Highway 35, between Ruatoria and Tolaga Bay, will be closed at 7pm tonight. This... Read More

Crash reported on SH29

Reports are coming in of a crash on State Highway 29. A caller to the 0800 SUNLIVE news hotline says a car and truck have crashed on SH29, near McLaren Falls... Read More

Fatal crash: Police release Rotorua man‘s name

Police can now name the man who died in a crash on State Highway 33 near Paengaroa last year. Emergency services were called to the single-vehicle crash on Wednesday,... Read More

SH2 reopens following serious crash at Tahawai

UPDATE 5.46PM: State Highway 2 at Tahawai, north of Katikati, has reopened following a crash at the intersection of Tuapiro Road earlier today. Police would... Read More

Back to work at the Pāpāmoa East Interchange

Construction of a new interchange over the Tauranga Eastern Link - TEL - is recommencing today. Traffic management will remain in place until April 2023. The... Read More

TTOC: Watchful eye keeping our city safe

If you ever get the feeling you're being watched, you might be right. With more than 900 CCTV cameras operating in the cities of Tauranga and Rotorua, Taupō,... Read More