The school attended by a teenage boy who shot himself in a tragic hunting accident will close on Thursday as a mark of respect.

Jamie Johnston never got the chance to give his mother Ginny her Mother's Day present after a duck hunting trip went horribly wrong.

A male driver is said to have been hysterical after learning a child had been badly injured in a crash last night.

Two promising rugby players are fighting for their lives last night after they were thrown from a vehicle that crashed on a remote road after a party.

Warkworth man Karl McCallion, 46, died in a crash on SH1 near Satellite Station Rd intersection about 9.15pm Saturday, police said.

A planned Mother's Day reunion has ended in tragedy for an Auckland family who lost three relatives in a horrific car crash.

The deaths of 10 people on New Zealand roads this weekend, including in a pair of triple-fatality crashes, have been lamented by police as a “preventable tragedy”.

The Bay of Plenty crash took the weekend's road toll to seven after three other fatal crashes.

A number of people are dead after a fiery vehicle crash in the Bay of Plenty tonight. One of the vehicles was engulfed in flames and it was not yet known how many people have died.

Police want to speak to the driver of a van after two people died in a head-on crash on State Highway Three near Marton this afternoon.

A St John Ambulance officer has been reprimanded after a woman fell on concrete and her husband was called a "fat man".

A Sri Lankan national has admitted he struck a woman while driving a rental car and talking on a mobile phone, then fled the scene.

An 18-month-old girl run over in the driveway of her Paeroa home remains in a serious but stable condition in Waikato Hospital's intensive care unit.

A cyclist has been taken to hospital after it is believed he was hit by a car on St John's Hill.

Police say there was no foul play to a car fire near Nelson in which a person was dead.

A two-car crash near a busy interchange has obstructed traffic this morning.

A minor crash on State Highway 20 near Onehunga is causing delays for motorists, police say.

Landcorp says it's a "terrible coincidence" both quad bike deaths in its 27-year history have happened on the same Buller farm.

A man is being treated for minor injuries after a rather spectacular crash which saw his car land in the middle of a busy Hamilton roundabout.

Investigators are still piecing together the movements of a woman who was found dead in the middle of a highway.

It took just 15 minutes for Ian McDonald's sore shoulder to turn into pain so excruciating it felt like a knife cutting into his spine.

A motorcyclist was critically injured when his bike crashed into a fence in Whanganui tonight.

Authorities are still trying to identify a man who was struck and killed by a train in Auckland today.

A person has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after being struck by a car on Victoria Street in central Auckland.

A man has been rushed to hospital with serious injuries after his car smashed into the back of a truck in Auckland tonight.

Thick, black oil washed up on properties as far as Mangatapu last night after a spill in Tauranga Port yesterday - with fears for surrounding wildlife.