Require every repeat drink driver and those caught at extremely high levels to have an alcohol interlock put in their car, writes Mike Noon.

Drink-drive convictions have fallen by a third in five years but the percentage of repeat offenders has remained almost the same.

A 9-year-old child has been injured in a crash involving a car and truck north of Auckland this morning.

A family narrowly escaped serious harm when the car they had been driving through the Kaimai ranges exploded in flames minutes after they jumped out.

A motorcyclist captured the terrifying moment a car came around a bend on the wrong side of the road.

The bodies of two German teens killed when the car they were in was crushed by a giant beech tree in Fiordland have arrived home.

A man is in critical condition after the car he was in left the road and rolled in the Bay of Plenty this evening.

A man alleged to have fled a fatal crash in which he is thought to have been the driver has been interviewed by police.

A cyclist suffered minor back injuries when they were hit by a car in Mt Eden this evening.

A boy was run over by a trailer with a car on it.

Hemi James Rapaea "is of no fixed abode" and was apparently picked up by the driver as he was hitchhiking from Palmerston North to Napier.

A logging truck has flipped on its side and is blocking a main road to Hamilton Airport.

The man, in his 60s, was cycling down a hill in when he swerved to avoid an oncoming truck and fell 15 meters down a bank in Onetangi, Waiheke.

A previous owner of Dunedin student bar the Bowling Green Hotel has died after a motorcycle crash in Bali.

WATCH: Raphael Giles tells the Herald about praying in the ambulance after the Patea truck crash that nobody else would die.

The funeral for an 18-month-old Hauraki toddler who died after being hit by vehicles outside his house was packed today.

A motorcyclist has been seriously injured in a collision with a car in Christchurch.

The Chinese community has rallied around the family of a man who was killed by a drink driver after discovering the culprit was one of their own.

Across the country flowers are being left out with the milk for tanker drivers to collect in memory of Michael Fairclough.

A Hamilton woman was killed instantly after losing control of her car in her driveway, speeding off and driving it through her neighbour's fence.

Elyse Brown is a quiet little girl, but her father says he'll make sure they keep talking about her mother and brother, who died in a horror car crash near Te Kuiti last week.

The husband of a woman killed in a head-on car crash in Putaruru last week has been charged in relation to her death.

Raphael Giles' plea follows seven days of carnage on the roads. Up to 17 people have died, taking the year to date's road toll to 65 last night.

One person is dead and another is in serious condition after a two vehicle crash on State Highway 14, west of Whangarei, police said.

A father has shared memories of his "shining star" who was killed in head-on collision.

One person has been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries following a two vehicle crash at Kaeo in Northland.

Death toll at 64 so far this year, an increase of 16 per cent compared with 2015.

Speed may have been a factor in a crash that killed a 32-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman in Canterbury yesterday afternoon.