A fire service spokesman said a man trapped in the car was released by staff before being transported to hospital by ambulance.

The partner of a man who was one of two killed in a Hamilton crash is pleased that driver licensing rules are being reviewed.

A person has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after a four-car crash on an Auckland motorway.

All lanes on State Highway 16 north of Kumeu have re-opened and congestion is now easing.

Waikato police are urging motorists to slow down after attending 10 crashes overnight.

Emergency services are using the jaws of life to cut a person free from a car after it tipped off a Hawkes Bay farm track and rolled 20m down a hill.

The Northern Motorway is now open following a truck crash that blocked two southbound lanes earlier this afternoon.

The partner of Sophie Langston vowed at her funeral to look after her twin sister for the rest of his life.

A poisons expert says carbon monoxide could be an "insidious" killer, leaving its victims little or no time to act.

The woman who died in a car crash in Otago on Friday has been named.

An elderly man was left lying in a pool of his own blood for half an hour, after two ambulances called to the scene were diverted to more urgent cases.

The father of three children found dead inside an Ashburton home with their mother cannot stop crying because he misses his "beautiful kids" so much.

A man has died in a single-car crash on Great North Road in Auckland tonight.

One person suffered serious injuries and two others were hurt in a fleeing driver incident in South Auckland this afternoon.

A missing Coromandel man who failed to return from an overnight hunting trip was located on Thursday evening down the bottom of a bluff near his home.

A person is dead after a crash between a car and truck on State Highway One near Cambridge today.

More than $22,000 has been raised to help pay for the funeral of an Auckland woman killed in a car accident while travelling home from a funeral.

Large crowds and emergency services gathered around the flaming wreckage shortly after the crash in the city of Medan, on Sumatra island.

A person is dead and two others are injured following a crash on State Highway 1 this afternoon.

The owner of a helicopter that "rolled over" on take-off in the mountains behind Hari Hari on Saturday, seriously injuring the pilot, does not yet know what caused the crash.

Mashed between a footpath and the side of a bus, Bruce Copeland says he had seconds to unclip his cycle cleats and jump to safety.

Safety inspectors are being sent to the remote site of a chopper crash which seriously injured a young pilot on the South Island's West Coast at the weekend.

A 70-year-old tramper was yesterday recovering in hospital after he and his wife were trapped in snow for a night.

A chopper crash in a remote part of the South Island’s West Coast has seriously injured the young pilot and hit the helicopter community hard.

Three people have survived a helicopter crash in Westland National Park this morning.

William Longbottom jokes that his new thumb looks "a bit Frankensteinish" because, after all, it is really a toe.

Six people have been injured this morning after a van carrying a shearing gang skidded on black ice and crashed in South Otago.

One person has died in a crash near Clevedon overnight.