One person is in serious condition and two others injured following a crash in south Auckland early this morning.

The New Zealand man critically injured in a scooter crash in Thailand has been moved to a ward as he continues his recovery from a coma.

Three people lost their lives on New Zealand's roads this weekend.

Emergency services are at the crash scene near Clevedon.

More than 300 people were injured when two passenger trains crashed in South Africa yesterday.

Police say the motorcyclist died after a crash in Rotokauri, Hamilton.

The former All Black flung himself across the car seat to save his baby's life, French officials investigating the crash believe.

A roofer who plummeted head-first two storeys on to concrete says it has not put him off the job.

A 25-year-old driver smashed into a fence, taking out a tree along the way, and was wedged against the fence with timber pinning his head down.

A cow was killed when it wandered on to a South Auckland road today and was struck by a car.

Australian rock icon Nick Cave's son Arthur sent this photo to a friend just hours before he died after falling from a cliff in East Sussex, England.

Viraj Goonasekera has been sentenced him to 200 hours of community work and disqualified him from driving for six months for an April hit-and-run incident.

Man who went to the rescue of a driver described hearing the “big f***ing bang” that woke him, and how nobody realised the man was impaled for up to 30 minutes.

An eyewitness understood the man was impaled in the abdomen and it appeared a piece of fence had gone through the car.

A bacterial lung infection is an "acute" development for a New Zealand man in a coma in Thailand after a scooter crash.

Paul 'PJ' Lupi suffered severe facial injuries in the incident in the popular holiday destination of Phuket last week.

Injured and dazed after crashing 100m down a bank, a Northland woman battled faltering cell phone reception and beeped her car horn to alert rescuers.

Murray Michie was thinking of his own grandchildren as he cut two girls and a woman from their burning SUV.

The accident occurred at the intersection of State Highway 57 and Waihou Rd about 8pm Sunday when a northbound and southbound vehicle collided.

A bus and a car have crashed in Takapuna, Auckland but no one has been injured.

The support crew of a Kiwi man who remains unconscious in a Thai hospital say they have been encouraged by his progress this weekend.

A truckie who cut trapped passengers free from a burning vehicle moments before it exploded in a fatal crash says he was in the right place at the right time.

Two vehicles collided at the intersection of State Highway 57 and Waihou Road.

The crash happened on Constable Road, Waiuku, shortly before six.

A Kiwi woman's dream winter getaway to one of Europe's best holiday hotspots has ended in tragedy.

Police have released the name of the man who died when a tractor rolled yesterday.

A woman whose house was smashed by a suspected stolen vehicle is thankful her baby daughter wasn't hurt.

After careering through a safety barrier, the driver of a truck chock full of animal blood remained moored in his cab for up to an hour as it dangled over a cliff.

Skiers and other holiday makers planning to use a popular Waikato backroad between Auckland and the Central Plateau's mountains are being warned to expect delays.