The man who died after a motorcycle crash in Taranaki has been identified.

One person was taken to Waikato Hospital in serious condition and another person was taken in moderate condition, a St John Ambulance spokeswoman said.

A man was airlifted to Wellington Hospital with serious injuries after a northbound truck crossed the centre line and collided with a tree.

She's too young to realise it yet, but 7-year-old Elyse Brown is helping her dad, Heath, keep it together.

Six people were injured, two critically, in a head-on crash this afternoon.

An arterial route in Auckland has been reopened following a fatal collision between a car and a truck this afternoon.

One person suffered serious head and chest injuries after a ute crashed into a ditch in Waikato this afternoon.

A drink driver who mowed down pedestrians in Christchurch on Good Friday has pleaded guilty in court today.

Vehicle swerved to miss a school bus before colliding with another vehicle, police say.

A man drives into a bridge and a city grinds to a halt. Such is the impact of a crash on Auckland's vulnerable motorway system.

A car is on fire and two lanes are blocked after a crash on the Southwestern Motorway in Auckland.

A motorcyclist has sustained serious injuries to his legs following a motorbike and car collision earlier this evening.

A female pedestrian was fatally struck by a car near Palmerston North tonight.

Barry and Kristin Loggenberg ran from their vehicle to help after coming across crumpled wreck.

The milk tanker driver who died after driving off the road south of Nelson after being stung by a bee has been named as Eric Heath.

Derrick Jackson was getting ready for work this morning when a car blitzed through his fence and smacked into his bedroom wall.

Emergency services are arriving at the crash scene which is on one of Auckland's busiest arterial roads.

A milk tanker has rolled on the Kohatu-Kawatiri Highway in the Tasman region.

Getting stuck in traffic became a literal problem today when a truckload of PVA glue fell onto the road.

A van crashed into wandering stock this morning on a Waikato road.

A truckie who didn't know the heavy digger he was hauling was 20cm too tall brought Auckland's main motorway to a standstill yesterday.

Woman knocked off her scooter by a car leaving a driveway.

For the second time this year, Papatoetoe resident Gita Patel was woken in the middle of the night by a car ploughing into the block of shops she calls home.

The car driver who died in a crash on the lower Kaimai ranges on Saturday has been identified as 29-year-old Dion Pollero.

The Central Motorway Incident Response crew gets a new base

Two "good Samaritans" dived into the Waikato River yesterday to help save a woman after the car she was travelling in crashed into the river.