A young motorcyclist who police say died after colliding with a Chinese driver's vehicle in Otago on Saturday will donate organs to seven different people.

St John was required to send five ambulances to the scene.

The motorcyclist who died after a crash in East Otago was a talented and award-winning Dunedin photographer.

Two people have been freed after they were trapped in their vehicles in a crash at Timaru.

One person is dead after a car was discovered submerged in a culvert near Balfour, Southland.

A Tauranga man has been flown by rescue helicopter to Waikato Hospital, after his condition deteriorated rapidly following a motorcycle crash.

A person was trapped in a car for more than an hour after the vehicle crashed and rolled near Whakatane.

A pedestrian is in a critical condition after being hit by a car in Auckland this morning.

A truck driver suffered a likely medical event before his vehicle ploughed into two houses in South Auckland this morning.

A Chinese woman jailed for killing a motorcyclist is appealing her sentence.

Watch: A stream of people passed by an injured man struck in a busy street by a delivery truck, leaving him to die. WARNING: Graphic Content.

A volunteer firefighter who was at the scene of the crash that left James Rolleston in intensive care has described how "half the bridge" ended up in the car.

A person is trapped and an intersection is blocked after two cars collided in Whangarei.

Motorists rushed to help a cyclist sprawled in the middle of the road - but the person who bystanders say caused the collision kept on driving.

Friends of an Auckland teenager who died in a central city crash have paid tribute to his memory in a film that serves as a reminder of grief that comes with unnecessary tragedy.

COMMENT: How many teens are going to die unnecessarily in high-speed car chases before the police abandon their deadly pursuit policies.

The woman's small green Ford collided with a black Mitsubishi Mirage at the Barbadoes-Hereford Sts intersection in Christchurch at 11.37am.

Rotorua woman died in what has been described as another tragic crash that highlights the fatal risk of fleeing from police.

Emergency services are scrambling to prevent polluted waste spilling into waterways after a tanker crashed in South Auckland.

A young woman is dead after the car she was driving crashed into a stream during a police pursuit in Rotorua.

A person died after their car flipped and became submerged in water in Rotorua shortly after midnight.

Heartbroken mother of a biker who died in a fireball crash has released a video of the final moments of her son's life as a warning to others. WARNING: Graphic content.

A man has been critically injured in a crash between a car and a truck in Christchurch this afternoon.

A woman is in a critical condition after a serious crash in Rangiora this morning.

Three people have suffered serious injuries after a car crash in South Auckland.

An 8-year-old hit by a car in Hamilton picked himself up and continued walking to school.

A collision between a truck and a motorcycle has seriously injured one person this evening.

Three trucks have crashed on State Highway 1 near Kaikoura, blocking the road and injuring two drivers.

Police warn motorists to take care as snow blankets the country's roadways and tragedy struck in Katikati last night, the latest in a string of fatalities.

A woman has been flown to hospital after she was run over by her own car on Great Barrier Island yesterday.