Two women have died in separate Hawke's Bay crashes just hours apart.

Corbin Morgan, 16, was killed in a car crash while travelling back from a farm where he worked with three friends to raise funds for a rugby trip to Argentina.

Shocked friends and schoolmates pay tribute to teenager killed after the car he was travelling in crashed near Matamata.

Emergency services are at the scene of a crash on SH2 in Hastings.

A man who died after his motorbike and a car collided in Hamilton has been named by police as Richard James Bennett.

DISTRESSING CONTENT WARNING: The family of a mother and 3 kids killed when a truck driver smashed into them on the phone have talked of their "utter devastation".

Paramedics and police have been called to a crash in South Auckland tonight.

A man is dead after a car and a motorbike collided in Hamilton.

One person is dead after a car with trailer and motorbike crashed five kilometres north of Eketahuna, police say.

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.

The Labour weekend road toll stands at two today, after a woman critically injured in a Paekakariki crash died in hospital.

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 truck carrying paint thinner, sulphuric acid and other dangerous chemicals, has rolled on State Highway Two.

A man has been charged with dangerous driving causing death, six months after a mother and her baby son were killed in a two-car crash.

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".