A Dargaville man charged over the deaths of three people in a crash near the town has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

People have shared heartfelt condolences on social media to the families affected by Monday's horror smash in Huntly.

The road is closed between Te Aroha Rd in Paeroa and Dean Cres in Waihi.

A vehicle has crashed south of Paeroa, closing one lane of traffic as police investigate.

The retired violin teacher of a Kiwi orchestral musician who survived Monday's triple fatality said she was the best pupil he ever taught.

A police serious crash investigator's report into a fatal accident on the Ladies Mile highway near Queenstown last year was criticised by two peer reviewers.

A victim of the horrific crash at Huntly and his Kiwi partner who survived the crash were "an example to most parents", their neighbour says.

A 33-year-old psychology student has admitted leaving a trail of destruction following a drunken wild ride through Mornington last month.

A 46-year-old Tokoroa woman has died after being hit by a truck and trailer unit while walking along State Highway 1 at Kinleith in

Motorists say lack of information about closed roads around Taranaki added more than six hours to their journey.

A wooden fence post fell off the back of a truck and went through the windscreen of a vehicle the driver was passing.

The bus driver and a 10-year-old child are among the four people killed after a bus carrying a junior college football team to its first game ever crashed.

A search operation was mounted after people were feared missing in a Christchurch river from a car wreck.

The young woman killed in a fatal crash in Southland on Thursday has been named as 18-year-old Hayley Taylor.

A newborn baby was among the children who were thrown from van.

Police are looking to speak to a woman driver involved in a bike vs vehicle crash in Invercargill on Friday evening.

A male pedestrian has died after being hit by a logging truck pulling out of a gas station near Nelson.

A judge has labelled an Arrowtown road rage incident as an "appalling piece of behaviour" while a couple was assaulted while their kids were in the car.

Three people have been rescued from a car which went over a cliff south of Westport.

One person is a critical condition and two people have moderate to minor injuries following a serious crash south of Auckland.

A man who had been missing from his home in the Ohuka area inland from Wairoa for nearly a week was found this morning deceased inside his crashed utility.

A stolen car ploughed into a stationary police vehicle in the Waikato this afternoon as the officer laid road spikes to stop the fleeing driver.

An elderly pedestrian has been seriously injured after he was struck by a vehicle in South Auckland this morning.

A dump truck filled with soil has crashed backwards down a bank crashing into a parked car.

A person has died in a serious crash between a campervan and car south of Thames this morning.

A man has died after being thrown from a 4x4 vehicle when it rolled, while an 11-year-old was also injured in separate incident after her motorcycle collided with a car.

SH1 north of Huntly has reopened after a motorcycle crash which left a man with life-threatening injuries.

The man was trapped in the wreckage and had to be cut free by firefighters.

A man has been critically injured after a motorbike crash in the Waikato this afternoon.

A crash on the Northwestern Motorway in central Auckland is causing major traffic delays.