A car crash on the Northern Motorway is causing traffic woes in Auckland tonight.

One person has been taken to the emergency department following a three-way car crash in Palmerston North this morning.

A 19-year-old woman who died when her farm bike was struck by a ute has been named by police.

A man is in a critical condition after a two car crash on the Hawke's Bay Expressway this evening.

The only survivor of a Hamilton crash which killed four others is home and on the road to recovery.

The Manawatu Gorge road has reopened following the recovery of a truck that plummeted off the road and into the river on Friday.

A fatal crash at Kaiwaka has closed SH1. Emergency services are at the scene and diversions will be put in place.

Traffic is congested coming into Auckland city from the North Shore after a crash on the Harbour Bridge.

Two car crashes on an icy South Island highway have left seven people injured this morning.

A man has died after coming off his motorcycle in Waikato this morning.

The mum of one of two hero police officers who helped save the lives of two people when a truck plunged into the Manawatu Gorge praised her son.

Two teenage brothers killed in a central North Island crash have been remembered as loveable boys who wore their hearts on their sleeves.

Two teenaged brothers died in the double-fatal crash near Taupo on Friday night.

A brawl broke out on Auckland's Southern Motorway after a driver took exception to the way another motorist was changing lanes, police say.

Traffic is heavy on the Auckland Harbour bridge after a truck broke down, causing delays.

The chopper pilot behind yesterday's Manawatu River crash rescue has told of a "bloody great team effort" to save lives.

Two males died when a car hit a tree and rolled near Taupo late last night.

Two people died when their car hit a tree and rolled in rural Tirohanga, near Taupo on Friday night.

A logging truck's trailer has rolled in Waikato, sending logs sprawling across both lanes.

Two people are injured after a car hit a parked car outside a Christchurch dairy.

Two people are in hospital, one after becoming trapped in a two car crash in Karaka, south Auckland.

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.