A bend in a busy Auckland road with a history of crashes has claimed its fifth victim in just two days.

Two people were killed on the roads in separate incidents during the weekend.

The funeral for a 14-month-old toddler who was fatally hit by a car in Kamo last week will be held today at the Pehiaweri Marae in Whangarei.

Two weeks ago, 11 people died on the roads in one weekend. Simon Plumb looks at the impact these tragedies have had on those who remain.

Mororway traffic has ground to a halt following a crash involving two vehicles near Pokeno, south of Auckland, this afternoon.

A driver has died after crashing a vehicle into a tree, just south of Hamilton, police say.

A female in her late teens was the sole occupant of a car which left the road and crashed down a bank in the Coromandel this morning.

An unlicensed driver who killed his friend after crashing an unwarranted car during a high-speed police chase has been jailed for five years.

Several cars have slid off the road after a large diesel spill in south Auckland this morning.

Two people have been taken to hospital following a crash involving a ute near Warkworth this morning.

A Transdev suburban rail network spokesman said it was company policy to automatically offer support in instances like this.

Sydney teen Josh Taylor held a loaded revolver to his head and pulled the trigger in a game of Russian roulette.

A man killed when his car plummeted off a bridge and into a river northwest of Whangarei last week has been named by police.

The mother of a 6-year-old hit by a car as he walked to school believes he owes his life to the actions of a Sikh man who removed his turban to stem the bleeding.

A pedestrian has been killed after they were hit by a train in Auckland tonight.

A tasty winter warmer is putting more and more Kiwi children in hospital with serious scalds and burns.

A man escaped a moving wall of terror when a Subaru crashed through his garage while he was inside vacuuming his car.

An experienced power line worker was last night fighting for his life after being flung from a live transformer in Auckland.

A man is in a serious condition after a car struck a power pole in Remuera this afternoon.

"He didn't care that his head was uncovered in public. He just wanted to help this little boy that he had no relation to."

Navdeep Kaur called out to her brother to come inside for dinner - then a car smashed into the garage, right where her brother had been just moments earlier.

A 5-year-old boy is now in a stable condition at Starship Hospital after he was hit by a car in South Auckland.

Richie McCaw's old rugby club has cancelled tomorrow's match in honour of a clubmate killed in a horror crash last weekend.

The man who helped load a corpse back into the hearse it fell out of at a busy Auckland intersection has had trouble sleeping since the spooky ordeal.

When his grandfather collapsed from a seizure, 5-year-old Max Murphy knew exactly what to do.

"I was just parked there and all of a sudden I saw the funeral car's boot open."

An unmanned rubbish truck has smashed through the front of a heritage building in Auckland this morning.

A father was driving past the wreckage of a car crash by chance when he learned his wife and son had died at the scene.

A teen pulled the battery from a crashed car to stop it being restarted as petrol spilled around.