One person is trapped after a car hit a power pole south of Auckland this morning.

An 18-year-old is dead and three others, including a baby, are in hospital following a spate of crashes around the Bay of Plenty yesterday.

A woman was thrown from the back of a 4WD ute when it rolled on an Auckland beach.

Three cars have crashed near a rail bridge north of Wellington - causing a backlog of traffic along SH1.

A request for fried chicken is a promising sign hit-and-run victim Jesse Minnell is making progress.

Man killed while taking part in Street Races went everywhere with his parrot Reggie who squawked and flapped when his best mate crashed and later died.

A man has died after driving off an embankment in a rural town 45km southwest of Auckland central this morning.

The police serious crash unit is investigating after the woman was hit on Hillside Rd, near the intersection of Law St, about 10.30am this morning.

A pedestrian has suffered serious injuries after being hit by a car in South Dunedin.

One east-bound lane remains closed after a crash in which three people suffered injured ranging from critical to moderate.

An 11-year-old boy was injured after crashing his motorbike into a cow.

The Labour weekend road toll stands at one tonight after an early-morning crash in Auckland today. A motorcyclist was also killed

The person was critically injured in the crash at Greymouth Motorcycle Street Races, and died on their way to hospital.

Jasmine White's body was discovered in South Australia in a crushed car with catastrophic injuries but now there are claims she was dead before the crash.

A digger is understood to have crashed into the Penrose overbridge on Auckland's Southern Motorway.

Two people have been seriously injured in a car crash in Northland last night.

A Hastings woman has been charged with causing the death of an 8-year-old boy after a crash into traffic queued at roadworks this year.

A pedestrian hit by a truck at the top of Newton Rd this morning is in hospital with moderate injuries.

A man has been injured after the truck he was driving lost control and went over a bridge in Oxford, North Canterbury. Emergency

The devastated sister of a 15-year-old quad bike victim Jossie Wetini says she "just wants to wake up from the nightmare".

A pickup truck plummeted 60 feet from a San Diego overpass, crushing and killing four people who were attending a festival and injuring nine.

A teenage girl has been killed in a quad bike accident in Taharoa, while another person who was seriously injured is stable in hospital.

Police have confirmed the man who was found dead in his crashed ute had been missing for 10 days.

The driver of a truck has been flown to hospital with serious injuries after a crash on State Highway 2 west of Maramarua.

Jethro Keast, 20, who died in Matakana crash this week was a "great" man, and a bright young chef who was a big part of his community.

An injured man had to spend the night in his car after crashing through a fence and down a 100 metre hill before his dog helped raise the alarm.

The man killed in a crash on State Highway 2 near Pongakawa yesterday morning has been named as Martin John Ferry of Tauranga, police said.

The Fire Service is looking at what the conviction of a firefighter on the way to an emergency means for the future.

A man was seriously injured when his car rolled backwards down a New Plymouth driveway before crashing and flipping.

Overnight a driver drove over the edge of Aramoana Rd into the Otago Harbour at Deborah Bay (near Dunedin) and this morning a people mover collided into the back of a mini-bus on King Edward St in South Dunedin.