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.

The youth is charged with dangerous driving causing the deaths of Hoani Korewha and Pacer Willacy-Scott, both 15, on January 31.

A motorcyclist died when his motorbike and a van collided near Motueka yesterday.

Student in the Spain bus crash describes waking up with "everyone on the floor" and trying to crawl out with broken vertebrae.

A tree has fallen across State Highway 3 in the Waikato, blocking both sides of the road.

A St John spokesman said one person was taken to Auckland Hospital in serious condition.

The 42-year-old local man died at the scene in Tasman.

Senior Sergeant Denton Grimes said the accident happened on State Highway One at Halletts Bay, South of Taupo, at about 4pm.

A 21-year-old man is in a critical condition after a hit and run in Mangere Bridge.

Two people are in a serious condition after a major crash near Mosgiel.

A 21-year-old woman was seriously injured after the car she was in struck the back of a stock truck in Southland early this morning.

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.

Police have released the name of a woman who died after a 4WD driven by her husband plunged 300m down a slope in a ''remote'' location near Omarama yesterday.

A woman has been taken to hospital after the car she was driving collided with a truck.