A man has died after the car he was driving left the road and crashed into a rock in Westport this afternoon.

The woman most seriously injured of seven hurt in Friday's head-on car crash near Gisborne remains critically ill in the intensive care unit at Waikato Hospital.

When the driver of the car which struck and killed Shayne Hunter's longboarding son walked through his front door, he was greeted with a big hug and a few tears.

A longboarder who died while skating down a steep Kapiti Coast road was last night lovingly remembered by his family and friends.

The man who died in a longboarding accident on Friday night has been identified as 21-year-old Tristan Hunter.

Police have named 62-year-old Kusum Rohit Kenia as the person who died in a Central Otago crash yesterday.

Up to six motorcyclists were involved in a crash in the Manawatu region this afternoon.

Two children were among those injured in a serious crash following a police pursuit in Gisborne this morning.

Dunedin Police would like to hear from anyone who saw a car narrowly avoid colliding with a bus before crashing into a parked car in Glenleith.

Teenager who tragically died in a house fire last week missed celebrating his 20th birthday by three days.

The man was hit while on the Tauranga Harbour Bridge, on State Highway 2, just after 4:30am on Friday.

A man is in a critical condition tonight after being hit by a truck in the early hours of this morning in Tauranga.

Traffic remains heavy on Auckland's southern motorway after a rubbish truck hit an overbridge, and there is no sign of it improving for the next few hours.

Bus carrying six children flips on its side in Wellington.

A man has been flown to Tauranga Hospital after his car rolled down a bank in the wider Bay of Plenty.

Police in South Auckland want to hear from anyone who was at the scene of a crash in which a motorcyclist suffered fatal injuries.

A man has been taken to hospital after getting his legs caught underneath a digger in Te Awamutu today.

A man is in critical condition after falling from a truck at a wharf onto a boat below.

Surviving a horror boat accident which claimed the life of a friend has completely changed New Zealand woman Sarra Hunter-Weston's outlook on life.

An 18-month-old boy who was rescued from the Hauraki Gulf two days ago is still critically ill in hospital.

The bodies of two German teens killed when the car they were in was crushed by a giant beech tree in Fiordland have arrived home.

Denise Robinson Winskill was killed when her husband accidentally ran over her in his ute in October 2013.

Hemi James Rapaea "is of no fixed abode" and was apparently picked up by the driver as he was hitchhiking from Palmerston North to Napier.

A logging truck has flipped on its side and is blocking a main road to Hamilton Airport.

A previous owner of Dunedin student bar the Bowling Green Hotel has died after a motorcycle crash in Bali.

A member of a diving party says conditions were perfect for night-time diving when two men drowned at Great Barrier Island.

The names of two men who died off Great Barrier Island and were thought to have been freediving at night when they disappeared can now be reported.

Just a block away from where she died, Chantelle Giles was farewelled in Patea today.

Across the country flowers are being left out with the milk for tanker drivers to collect in memory of Michael Fairclough.

A Hamilton woman was killed instantly after losing control of her car in her driveway, speeding off and driving it through her neighbour's fence.