The New Zealand Transport Authority is warning motorists heading across to the North Shore to expect delays and to pass the crash scene with care.

Four people have been injured after a van rolled at an intersection in the Manawatu District this evening.

A 10-year-old had been taken to hospital with injuries following the incident with a water tanker on a Canterbury property.

Police are appealing for the driver of a white utility vehicle to come forward after a man was killed when a car and truck collided in rural Waikato today.

A rider of a scooter was trapped under a car in Napier after colliding with a car.

The man responsible for the death of Rotorua woman Stephanie McHale has pleaded guilty to two charges of careless driving.

Police are asking for the public's help in tracing the movements of a Hamilton man before his body was discovered in a car found crashed in a stream.

The chase began in Whitford about 12.15pm and the vehicle was chased by police as far as the Razorback Rd area, north of Pokeno in Auckland.

Traffic is beginning to ease on Auckland's northern motorway after two crashes caused gridlock.

A man who was rescued after his car plunged 100m over a cliff in West Auckland has been charged in relation to the incident.

One man is in intensive care after a head-on crash on the main road between Blenheim and Nelson that injured seven people.

City bound traffic is heavily congested on the Northwestern Motorway back to Hobsonville after a crash near Rosebank Rd.

The thought of never meeting his unborn son fuelled Peter Redmond's fight for his life when he was hit and dragged 20m by an SUV.

A woman remains in a critical condition this morning after crashing her motorcycle in Hawkes Bay.

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested following a hit-and-run incident in the Wellington region last week.

A driver has walked away uninjured after the car they were driving in crashed into a tree in west Auckland this afternoon.

A motorcyclist is in critical condition after colliding with a car on State Highway One in Northland.

A person died after the car they were driving collided with a truck in west Auckland.

A young boy has died after a serious car crash on the Hawke's Bay Expressway this morning.

An elderly driver of a car has smashed through the front window of a medical lab in a Torbay shopping area.

Waikato police have released the name of an American woman who was killed in a car crash near Matamata on Monday.

A woman is in a serious condition in hospital after the car she was driving crashed into a taxi in central Auckland.

Police are on the lookout for the driver of a vehicle that was found crashed into a fence in Auckland this evening.

A friend of the mother who died in a crash along with her 8-month-old son said she was a very careful driver.

The two people who died in a two-car smash near Twizel in the South Island have been named.

A logging truck became airborne and shunted a hatchback 20m off the road in a collision that left a 22-year-old dead and her parents injured near Matamata.

The force of the impact between a car and a logging truck which crashed was so intense the truck and trailer unit briefly became airborne.

A person is dead as emergency services deal with two serious truck crashes in the North Island this morning.

Two people have been freed from the wreckage of a crash that closed a major Wellington road this morning.