Fund will help the people injured in Gisborne bus crash.

Morgan Tait talks to emergency staff about crashes in which people are injured and sometimes killed.

Motorists are being urged to "play their part" to prevent further road carnage after a grim start to the Christmas holidays that has already left 10 dead.

Family and friends of the three teens killed in a horror smash have been visiting the crash site in Canterbury all day today.

A car filled with adults and children has flipped on SH4 north of Whanganui.

Plans to recover a bus that plunged down a bank, killing two, have been delayed until tomorrow.

The annual road toll has exceeded last year's grim total with four days before the period ends

Significant delays remain on State Highway 1 north of Wellsford after this morning's truck crash.

Tonga's deputy prime minister is focused on getting the schoolchildren involved in a Christmas Eve bus tragedy in New Zealand home.

A car has struck a pole in the south Auckland suburb of Papatoetoe.

One person has been taken to hospital after a two-car crash on Auckland's southern motorway, between the southbound Greenlane and Market Rd off ramps.

A fatal crash in the Manawatu has brought the holiday road toll to eight this evening.

Firefighters freed two people from a vehicle this afternoon after it rolled down a bank on State Highway 29 in the Lower Kaimais.

The holiday road toll now stands at seven since Friday afternoon.

A truck has rolled on Desert Road, closing the route to traffic.

Tongan community mourns two visitors' deaths in bus crash after brakes failed to work, survivors say.

A Herald investigation reveals the most dangerous roads during the Christmas holiday period.

A young Kiwi missionary has died in a car accident in South Africa.

An elderly woman has died from injuries after being hit by a car in Takapuna this evening.

A 77-year-old man suffered suspected fractured ribs when he was knocked off his push bike in Kilgour Road, Greymouth, this morning.

A crash that closed the Terrace Tunnel in Wellington has been cleared and the tunnel has re-opened, NZTA Wellington said.

Traffic is heavy and slow on Auckland's Southern Motorway as holidaymakers and commuters begin the crawl south to escape the city for Christmas.

The family of a woman killed while walking outside an Auckland garden centre will go ahead with Christmas despite the pain of their loss.

Peng Wang, who allegedly crashed into Mediaworks journalist Karen Rutherford, has been denied the return of his Chinese passport.

A truck carrying a large amount of gravel rolled this afternoon on one of the main routes to Auckland Airport.

A truck driver is flown to hospital after a crash north of Auckland this morning.

Police name quad biker killed in Port Waikato crash.

A teen is in critical condition after the stolen car they were in with six others crashed during a police pursuit in Whanganui last night.

Cattle have died after a truck rolled, closing part of State Highway 23, Waikato.

One person has been left severly injured after they collided with a power pole.