Three people have died in crashes on the nation's roads since late last night and a fourth has been killed in a quadbike incident.

A young man who died in a crash in the Waikato last night was not wearing his seatbelt at the time of the crash.

A person is dead after a quad bike accident on a farm in Waikato this morning.

An 84-year-old woman trying to park her car outside the Kurow Four Square yesterday morning instead crashed through the store window.

The stretch of road along State Highway 4, near Kopaki, has been closed after logging truck ran off the road, and lost its load.

A Palmerston hunter used his T-shirt and duct tape as a tourniquet before hobbling more than 200m to meet rescuers after impaling his leg in the Maungatua Range.

Two people have been taken to hospital with injuries after a three car crash in Coatesville this evening.

Firefighters had to free someone trapped in their car after it rolled in Auckland this afternoon.

An ambulance spokeswoman said the Westpac Rescue Helicopter had been dispatched to a rural location in Dairy Flat.

Hundreds of Hamiltonians woke up with no power today after a driver fleeing police crashed into a power pole.

Richard Neville was sprayed with shrapnel and glass when he caught in the cross-fire.

The motorcyclist killed in a crash near Puhoi yesterday was David Francis Cruickshank, 53, of Wellsford.

The boy fell from his motocross bike and was struck by another motorcycle in the Bay of Plenty.

The death of a motorcylist after his bike collided head-on with a car is the latest in a series of tragedies that happened over the weekend.

The accident happened in Waimana in the rural Bay of Plenty.

An Auckland man who lost a leg in a motorbike crash in the US says he has cheated death.

Residents living near Tianjin have expressed fears for their safety after reports there could be hundreds of tonnes of dangerous chemicals at the site.

A man who was killed when he was struck by a milk tanker near Te Puke last night has been named.

A Hamilton man will fight a serious driving charge over the death of his friend and fellow motorcyclist on the outskirts of the city earlier this year.

A crash which killed a teenage girl this week is the second fatal accident to involve an Onyx rubbish truck in Birkenhead in recent years.

The older sister of the 19-year-old woman who was killed in a rubbish truck crash in Auckland says she was dreading seeing the site.

Emergency services are at the scene of a crash, near the intersection of Riccarton Rd and Clyde Rd in Christchurch this morning.

One person is dead and another injured after the rubbish truck they were in plummeted 10m down a bank.

A team of surgeons are battling to save the remaining leg of a young Kiwi almost killed in a motorbike crash in the US.

France has launched a hunt for more wreckage from the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 off Reunion Island.

The man who spent the night out in the open after his car came off the road in the Coromandel has his friends to thank for his rescue.

Police have named the truck driver who died in a three-vehicle crash near Levin last night.

Traffic is easing for evening commuters on Auckland's Southern Motorway after two crashes caused headaches this afternoon.

The owner of a Papamoa superette says his mum is lucky to be alive after a car smashed through dairy's wall and tore the store apart.