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.

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.

The motorist who died after a crash between her car and a truck and trailer unit in the Waikato has been named by police.

Police and safety investigators are looking into a fatal farm accident in Southland.

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.

The man who died in a crash near Clevedon last Thursday was Shaan Singh.

The driver of a truck has been pulled out of the cab uninjured after colliding with a train.

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.