Debris is strewn across the road and a white Toyota Prado SUV with a damaged front and a red sedan are blocking the southbound car.

Xingyu Shang, 27, was sentenced to nine months home detention yesterday for causing a crash which killed a man and fleeing the scene.

Heavy rain and a slippery road are to blame for a crash involving a Range Rover and tourist bus near Queenstown, police say.

The incident happened in the Hunterville Court cul-de-sac, parallel to Ladies Mile, just after 5pm.

In a heartwarming and earnest letter to a local paper, a truckie apologised for his mistake which forced the closure of a bridge

A commercial truck driver was pulled over in Stratford, Taranaki, this morning at about 6.30am.

Waikato Police are investigating a crash in which a person died last night on State Highway 2 at Mangatarata.

The girl is in hospital after the car she was in struck a power pole.

A person died late last night in a collision between a truck and a car in the Waikato.

A police spokesman said a person had been taken to hospital in a serious condition after being struck by a vehicle on Auckland's North Shore.

Newly released figures show crushing boy racers' is working. Now Judith Collins is talking up the possibility of a similar law for drivers fleeing police.

A motorcyclist has died after a collision with a truck in South Auckland overnight.

Whanganui firefighters are recovering after "a night from hell".

A young family's holiday ended abruptly when their 18-month-old fell off a picnic table and landed on his head.

Hundreds of students from Wairarapa schools will be attending a driving awareness programme, following the deaths of two teenagers in a Masterton crash last month.

A female tourist has been charged with careless driving causing injury after a two-car collision wrote off a classic American muscle car and put the driver in hospital.

Drunk and medicated motorcyclist killed teenager Natalia Austin.

It's a slow start to the working week in Auckland.

Dunedin Police are looking for the driver who crashed their car into a power pole this morning, and then took off.

Pregnant mother of one, Emily Hurley, 20, of Whanganui was one of two drivers killed in a crash in Kaitoke yesterday.

An 18-year-old female and a 47-year-old male have died following a head-on collision south of Whanganui.

Emergency services are responding to reports of a fatal crash near Taylor's Mistake in eastern Christchurch.

A man who allegedly led police on a high-speed chase with a five-month-old baby in the back of his car will remain in custody.

Every time Sophia Perera looks at her newborn daughter, she's reminded of her first-born, whose life was cut short.

A 14-year-old boy has appeared in court charged with causing the deaths of two Featherston boys.

A man is being air-lifted to Whangarei Hospital in a critical condition after he became pinned under his work-truck.

A year from this weekend, Rhys Middleton was to be married to his long-time sweetheart, Laura Settle.