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

A Waikato man says he can still hear a mother's "blood-curdling screams" as she arrived to the scene of a horrific crash which left her children fighting for their lives.

Both the holiday road toll and last year's entire toll are the worst they've been in years.

The road toll is now at 18 after a fatal crash in Whakatane.

Five people were lucky to escape from a serious crash in the Lewis Pass without life threatening injuries, due to wearing seatbelts.

Two people are being flown to hospital after a Southland car crash.

Police have issued an arrest warrant for Jamie Lesley Jones in connection with an alleged hit and run that left a cyclist in a critical

The man killed in a motorcycle crash near Gore on Tuesday was convicted of raping and killing a South Otago woman in 1993.

There is chaos on the roads with multiple crashes on SH1 in Waipu, south of Whangarei.

Three years after a red-light runner killed her daughter at a Hamilton intersection, Joy Bray tells of the enormity of her grief.

A truck was blocking State Highway 1, north of Wellington, after it rolled.

A Norwegian tourist has penned a piece saying NZ roads are too dangerous and the speed limit should be changed on narrow and winding roads.

Boxing Day crash victim remembered as one of the "most amazing people" .

A man reportedly tried to take the keys off a group of teens in the lead-up to a Boxing Day crash which killed three 15-year-olds in Canterbury.

Disappointed police boss says all the fatal crashes over the holidays were avoidable.

Road toll now equal to last summer's following death of motorcyclist.

A person is seriously injured after an early morning crash in Mt Maunganui.

Could driverless cars be the answer to New Zealand's abysmal road toll?

The Tongan brass brand which lost two members in a Christmas Eve bus crash performed a tribute concert tonight as the holiday road toll climbed to 11.

Watch: Five months after a crash in which he and his best mate were seriously injured, James Rolleston still struggles to do simple things.

The funeral arrangements of two of the teenagers killed in a horror smash in the early hours of Boxing Day have been released.

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