The two people who died, Vernon Lawrence-Samuels and Ryan Wikaira, both 23, had been at rugby training before the accident.

A three-car collision involving a Porsche ended up with one car on the pavement in Westport's main street.

NZTA Auckland and Northland tweeted there had been a crash on the Southern Motorway north-bound after the Papakura off-ramp.

One person has died in Waipa after a truck and an SUV collided on State Highway 39 earlier this evening.

The Auckland police dog squad were called to help find the driver of a blood-stained crashed car early this morning near the Harbour Bridge.

One person has been airlifted to hospital in a critical condition following a crash in the central North Island which left five others injured, too.

A man has died in a crash in Selwyn, Canterbury after two cars collided on West Coast Rd in Kirwee shortly after 5pm.

A passenger was killed and the driver flown to hospital after the car they were in drove off the road and hit a tree in Kaipara Flats.

A person has died after their car hit a tree north of Auckland around 11.30pm.

Police have named the driver who was killed yesterday, after his car collided with a ute near Balclutha in South Otago.

A Canadian wept as he was sentenced today for careless driving causing the death of an 81-year-old woman near Owaka.

A Canadian safety officer wept as he was sentenced today for careless driving causing the death of an 81-year-old woman near Owaka.

One person has died after a car and a ute collided in Balclutha tonight.

Police make major breakthrough into the crash which killed four people near Hamilton Airport on Friday night.

A 58-year-old New Zealand man is dead after he was struck by a vehicle while working on a manhole.

An Auckland driver has been found guilty of careless driving causing the death an elderly woman as she walked home from a card game.

The driver of a ute involved in a collision with a tractor has died almost a week later from his injuries.

The driver of a red car who may hold information into a crash which claimed four young lives came forward after an appeal was made.

Police believe two motorcyclists involved in a head-on collision were patched Black Power members travelling in convoy to a Northland tangi.

The families of the four young people who died in a horror crash near Hamilton are beginning to pay tribute to their loved ones.

Waikato police say they are investigating whether two cars were racing each other and whether an altercation took place shortly before the fatal crash.

Police said the ambulance service was called to the scene, and one man had minor injuries.

A group of tourists had a lucky escape after crashing their car into a cow in Te Kuiti last week. The cow and the car were not so lucky.

A slip north on one of the country's most popular scenic highways is down to one lane and a second incident in Bay has left motorists navigating floodwaters.

Emergency services are currently at the scene of a two car collision near Rolleston, on the outskirts of Christchurch where a woman is trapped in a car.

A multiple-car crash is blocking the right-hand lane of Auckland's Northern Motorway.

Truck driver records moment car overtook him on bend, as oncoming driver has to take evasive action.

Sometimes a shortcut is not always the best road to take - as the owners of this car found out when they drove down a stairway and immediately got stuck.

This is what happens when a four-wheel-drive ute and a tractor collide on a narrow country road.