Two people escaped serious injury after their car and caravan veered off the road and crashed down a bank yesterday afternoon.

The mother of a teen-boy killed in a triple-fatality car crash in Canterbury has forgiven the young man who was behind the wheel on December 26.

Mike Middleton hasn't touched his motorbike since February 7, 2016 - the day his son, Rhys, was killed.

The 2017 road toll already stands at nine.

Motorcyclists dying on country's roads are likely to be older people, who have got more time and cash on their hands to ride deceptively powerful machines.

Three people have died on New Zealand roads so far this weekend, adding to the summer holiday road carnage.

Police said State Highway 2 south of Katikati was completely blocked this afternoon but has now been reopened.

A person is dead after a van crashed into a bridge and became submerged in water in mid-Canterbury this morning.

A cyclist has been killed after a collision with a car on the Taupo Expressway.

Five people have been injured and one person is in serious condition after a car rolled in Northland.

A motorcyclist has died after a collision with a car on the road south of Cardrona near Queenstown.

Three people were injured, one critically, in a two-car collision late yesterday near Lyell, reducing State Highway 6 through the

When the official holiday period finished at 6am yesterday there had been 15 fatal crashes on New Zealand roads since the Friday before Christmas.

Two riders seriously injured in Coromandel crashes.

Two people are being airlifted to hospital following a two car crash in Geraldine.

A bank manager was in a geocaching area when his car collided with a milk tanker.

An 8-year-old is in hospital in a serious condition after his child-sized motorbike collided with an SUV.

A man has died from his injuries in a car crash in Manawatu yesterday.

A man is in critical condition after a two-truck crash in Palmerston North, which has closed the road as freight spilled across both lanes.

Bad weather and the risk of rockfalls has forced the closure of State Highway 1 south of Kaikoura.

A motorist is dead after a single car crash south of Christchurch this afternoon.

Police have released the name of the man killed in a fatal crash just out of Christchurch on New Year's Eve.

A wife who found her husband with a younger woman has been accused of ramming his van off the road before smashing into his lover's vehicle too.

Man died after a truck rolled on Thornton Rd in Whakatane on January 1.

A person has been injured in a car crash in Manurewa, South Auckland, this morning.

Nineteen people lost their lives on New Zealand roads over the Christmas and New Year period. The youngest victim was 2-years-old.

A single-car crash is blocking an off-ramp on Auckland's Southern Motorway this evening. Police, ambulance and fire crews are at

A person is in a critical condition in Middlemore Hospital after a car crash south of Auckland this afternoon. Emergency crews were

Police are hoping a road speed guide passed before Christmas will help turn around an alarming rising trend in the road toll.