The community is rallying to help the family of the little girl who was run over in Te Kauwhata on Boxing Day.

One person has died and another two been badly injured in separate crashes as holiday traffic queues across the North Island.

Fund will help the people injured in Gisborne bus crash.

Family and friends of the three teens killed in a horror smash have been visiting the crash site in Canterbury all day today.

A car filled with adults and children has flipped on SH4 north of Whanganui.

The annual road toll has exceeded last year's grim total with four days before the period ends

Significant delays remain on State Highway 1 north of Wellsford after this morning's truck crash.

WARNING: GRAPHIC A post-Christmas camping trip ended with an 18-year-old woman trapped under the bonnet of a rolled car.

Tonga's deputy prime minister is focused on getting the schoolchildren involved in a Christmas Eve bus tragedy in New Zealand home.

The 11-year-old boy who died in the Christmas Eve bus crash was "quiet, kind and smiley" his sister says.

Firefighters freed two people from a vehicle this afternoon after it rolled down a bank on State Highway 29 in the Lower Kaimais.

Her smile always made him happy, says the widower of Gisborne bus crash victim.

Tongan community mourns two visitors' deaths in bus crash after brakes failed to work, survivors say.

A Herald investigation reveals the most dangerous roads during the Christmas holiday period.

The two people killed in the Christmas Eve bus crash near Gisborne last night have been named, as the driver of the bus says the brakes failed.

The shocking moment a three-year-old boy was hit by a truck in China has been captured on camera.

An elderly woman has died after being hit by a car in Takapuna, on Auckland's North Shore. She is believed to be the first person killed in holiday period.

One person has moderate to serious injuries after a car crash in rural South Canterbury this afternoon.

A man is dead and a woman in hospital after a car rolled into a paddock north of Christchurch this morning.

A boy is in critical condition after being hit by a car in Whangarei this afternoon.

Twins needed CPR after being pulled from a pool in Sydney.

A man has been taken to hospital in serious condition with spinal and rib injuries after a paragliding crash in Queenstown.

A truck carrying a large amount of gravel rolled this afternoon on one of the main routes to Auckland Airport.

A truck driver is flown to hospital after a crash north of Auckland this morning.

Changes to school toilets unlikely, despite death of 9-year-old boy.

Police name quad biker killed in Port Waikato crash.

Grandma mind the eggnog and little Timmy beware the shiny new skateboard, as Christmas Day is dangerous.

Helicopter crews used night-vision goggles to rescue a man who had a car crash in Waihi.

The families of a crash driver who killed two and injured two others are disgusted he has been released on parole.

Two people have been seriously injured after a head-on smash involving a car and a ute near Thames.