A man has suffered head injuries after being thrown from his vehicle in an early morning police chase in Queenstown.

A person has died after being thrown out of their car in a crash on the Coromandel Peninsula this morning.

Seven people have been injured after two vehicles collided in National Park overnight.

A man crushed between two trucks at a Christchurch work site this morning has died in hospital, police have confirmed.

Six people, including two children, have been flown to hospital after a serious two-vehicle crash on the Te Anau-Milford Highway.

A 17-year-old Invercargill girl remained in intensive care at Dunedin Hospital this morning after a single-vehicle crash in Queenstown early yesterday.

Devastated partner of woman killed in head-on crash with oncoming traffic tearfully describes the moment he tried to avoid the smash.

A cyclist is in hospital after being struck by a car last night, and three others are injured after a two-car crash that left both vehicles "totally disintegrated".

Search and rescue volunteers say they completed a five-month taxpayer-funded training course at a polytechnic in one week.

A man who died after the truck he was in went over the edge of a wharf was a well-known and loved person in his local community.

Police have charged a 29-year-old man with driving dangerously causing death after a fatal vehicle crash near Herbert on Sunday.

A Northland man has died on a farm after his vehicle rolled this morning.

Three people have fortunately survived a crash near Otorohanga in which their car left the road, crashed into a post, flipped in the air and then rolled.

A car driving on the wrong side of the road caused a head-on collision in Hamilton earlier today.

Police say visitors' rental car crossed double yellow lines, apparently while overtaking.

Double-amputee hit with fine for parking his specialist van across two car spaces because he needed room to exit the vehicle in his wheelchair.

Sections of the Auckland motorway network were brought to a standstill last night after a series of crashes.

A rescue helicopter airlifted the 17-year-old woman to Tauranga hospital after the crash.

The bodies of all three remaining victims of the helicopter crash have now been airlifted from glacier.

Attempts to recover the remaining three bodies of people killed in the Fox Glacier helicopter crash have resumed this morning.

Recovery crews at Fox Glacier are frustrated by bad weather continuing to put a hold on efforts to retrieve the remaining victims.

It could be 18 months before the investigation into what caused Saturday's Fox Glacier helicopter crash is concluded.

Tributes are pouring in for the six tourists and one helicopter pilot killed in the Fox Glacier helicopter crash on Saturday.

The family of the pilot killed in the Fox Glacier helicopter crash know they may never get his body back, but they hope authorities can bring him home.

The car had crossed the centre line, smashing through the sign and rolling into the harbour.

A stolen car crammed full with seven young people flipped in a driveway after a high-speed police chase.

A Waikato motorist has had a miraculous escape after a collision with a truck that saw it mount the front of her car.

Nine-year-old Aryan Banerjee was strangled when his clothing caught on a window latch handle as he tried to climb out of a toilet.

A dangerous bend near Pukekohe which claimed four peoples lives six years ago has had its speed limit raised.

A New Zealand woman was flown to hospital with serious head injuries after a boating accident in an Australian tourist hotspot.