Elizabeth Harrison is struggling with the senseless loss of her daughter, who was the passenger in a stolen car fleeing police.

Police say pair killed in a horrific Bay of Plenty crash yesterday were attempting to change a car tyre.

Parents of a 14-year-old girl killed in a hit and run have spoken of their anguish that no one has been held accountable for their daughter's death.

Up to four people were injured in a crash that closed part of Auckland's north-western motorway this afternoon.

A large spillage of chicken offal led to the closure of an Auckland motorway overnight.

State Highway 29A near Tauranga has re-opened after a double fatal crash this afternoon.

Injured 'Boy' actor James Rolleston is still in a stable condition at Waikato Hospital's intensive care unit after a car crash on Tuesday night.

Police say 14 primary school students were very, very lucky, after their school bus slammed into a concrete power pole near Dannevirke.

A pregnant woman has been taken to hospital after the stolen car she was in crashed while fleeing from police.

Messages of support for James Rolleston after vehicle he was travelling in hit a bridge.

Operation Habit targets not wearing a seatbelt or in an approved car seat as well as drivers using smartphones.

An ambulance is rushing to the scene of a three car crash outside Christchurch this morning, with reports of a person being trapped.

One person has been killed and another seriously hurt in a crash in Gisborne.

Three people have been injured - one seriously - in a car crash in Northland this afternoon.

Taupo Police have named the third person killed in a fatal car crash on the Desert Road on Monday morning.

Five people are suffering minor injuries after a bus with 39 people on board veered off the road near Central North Island's Tangiwai.

A woman among three people killed in a horror car crash on the Desert Road is being remembered as a beautiful young woman who was loved by all.

An emotionally charged sentencing at Taupo District Court this afternoon has ended with home detention for an 18-year-old charged with dangerous driving causing death.

A woman was cut free from her car that crashed into a ditch in Horowhenua this afternoon.

A man has been charged in relation to a crash at a Masterton petrol station.

An early morning hunting trip turned to disaster for two women when the quad bike they were on plunged over a cliff.

WATCH: Aerial footage. Three people have been killed after a car collided with a truck on the Desert Rd this morning.

Two teenage brothers killed in a car crash last weekend were "blessed with generous, caring and loving hearts", their mother says.

The main road in and out of Stillwater is cut off to all traffic this evening as the jaws of life are used to cut a person out of a car following a serious crash.

Two people have been injured, one critically, in a two-car crash in the Waikato tonight.

Police, ambulance and fire services are at the scene of the crash involving two cars and a truck, on State Highway 3 near Corbett Road.

A lane on Auckland's Northwestern Motorway has reopened after a crash but traffic will still be backed up as rush hour nears.

A speeding car crashed off a Dunedin motorway while its driver was fleeing from police tonight.

Aleesha Tait had just finished her morning shift on a farm and was heading home for lunch when her farm bike and a car collided in Waikato.

A head-on crash has injured four people in the Hauraki Plains area.