The National Park fire chief has described the scene of this morning's Tongariro National Park bus crash.

Fatal crash blocks stretch of Southland highway this morning.

The road is closed after a motorcycle collided with a car and a power pole in South Auckland this afternoon.

One man had serious injuries and had to be airlifted to hospital.

Police attended two crashes near Thames and motorists had significant delays.

One person has died after a car and truck collided on State Highway 3 in Manawatu this evening.

The sister of a Marton man who died after a road accident in Palmerston North last Wednesday has described him as "my idol, my rock".

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.

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.

The driver of a ute that crashed into three lamp posts and rolled in Northland yesterday has been charged.

The crash resulted in the death of a motorcyclist. It occurred on SH1 around 4pm just east of Pukerau.

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.

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.

Readers discussing the holiday toll have suggested the solutions lie in law improvement rather than law enforcement.

The last thing Phil Kilmister expected or wanted to see as he drove home from his family Christmas celebrations was a fatal crash. But that is exactly what happened.

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.