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

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.

One person is critically injured after a two car crash on State Highway 2, south of Katikati.

One person is dead after a ute and a truck collided near Maramarua this morning, causing the ute to flip.