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.

Three people were injured, one critically, in a two-car collision late yesterday near Lyell, reducing State Highway 6 through the

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.

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

Police are hoping a road speed guide passed before Christmas will help turn around an alarming rising trend in the road toll.

EXCLUSIVE: Family members recall how Leotisia Malakai - the third victim of a horrific bus crash near Gisborne - slipped into a coma and never woke up.

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.