Sentencing of an American tourist who admitted causing the deaths of two Northland women in a car crash has been put off until next Saturday.

The drivers of both vehicles suffered injuries and have been transported to hospital, police said.

One person is in a serious condition after their car left the road and landed in a paddock near Whangarei.

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A Twizel woman who lost control of a vehicle leading to the death of her husband and injuries to her daughter has been discharged without conviction.

Two people have been taken to hospital this evening following a two-car crash on Dilworth St, Christchurch.

Traffic has resumed to normal after two crashes that took place within five minutes of each other on either side of the State Highway 1 near Rolleston.

Traffic has finally cleared after being bumper-to-bumper for several hours on the Northern Motorway in Auckland following five traffic incidents.

A vehicle on State Highway 1 north of Taihape appeared to have gone over a bank and caught fire last night.

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.

One person is dead after a crash between a car and truck in the Dome Valley.

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.

The New Zealand Transport Authority said the accident was blocking a right lane just before the Constellation off-ramp.

A scene investigation's underway south of Nelson after a milk tanker went off the road this afternoon, killing the driver, after he'd been stung by a bee.