Police said in a statement that the 87-year-old woman suffered serious head injuries and taken to hospital.

At least one person is thought to be seriously injured after a three-car crash north of Auckland this morning.

Two horses had to be sedated in order to be freed when their float flipped in Taranaki this morning.

Police have named the man killed in a car crash north of Taupo last night.

The elderly woman was trapped and had to be freed by firefighters before being flown by rescue helicopter to Middlemore Hospital.

New Zealand's road toll is standing at 98, 13 more than this time last year.

People inside two cars have escaped without serious injury after a fiery, high-speed crash on the outskirts of Invercargill overnight.

A man is dead and two others have serious injuries after a car and a four-wheel-drive vehicle collided north of Taupo last night.

A man has appeared in court facing two charges relating to the car crash that killed popular Rotorua woman Stephanie McHale.

Barry Algie, 73, died after he was trapped between two vehicles at his home.

Two people have been taken to hospital after a crash between a car and cart in Taranaki this morning.

A man who died after being crushed between two cars was packing up his house to move.

The injured pedestrian was treated by firefighters before ambulance officers arrived.

Police will close a North Island highway at midday to investigate the death of teenager whose body was found on the side of the road yesterday morning.

Two people were trapped in a car that drove several metres down a bank in North of Wellington.

Emergency services are responding to what is understood to be a serious car crash near Whanganui.

A car crash has briefly blocked a lane in the Victoria Park Tunnel on Auckland's northern motorway this morning.

The father of the young boy who was accidently run over by his mother says his son is lucky to be alive, after the car narrowly missed his son's head.

The 4-year-old boy who was in serious condition after a head-on car crash near Gisborne on Good Friday remains in hospital.

One car appeared to have gone into the central barrier while a second car landed on its side in the outside of four lanes.

The son-in-law of a 68-year-old woman who was hit on a pedestrian crossing says he's been advocating for pedestrian safety to be improved in the area for years.

A 19-year-old who died after the car he was driving hit a tree on Good Friday is being remembered as a "big softy" with a "friendly and goofy personality".

The woman most seriously injured of seven hurt in Friday's head-on car crash near Gisborne remains critically ill in the intensive care unit at Waikato Hospital.

A woman seriously injured in a car crash following a police pursuit in Gisborne is now in a critical condition in hospital.

Police have named 62-year-old Kusum Rohit Kenia as the person who died in a Central Otago crash yesterday.

Up to six motorcyclists were involved in a crash in the Manawatu region this afternoon.

A teenage girl is in serious condition after a two vehicle crash on the West Coast tonight.

Firefighters had to cut four people from the wrecked minibus.