One person is dead and two injured after a car crash near Motueka early this morning. Police say speed was possibly the cause of the crash.

Motorists are being urged not to let the festive season impair their judgment when travelling on the roads today.

A teenager is in a serious but stable condition after her car was hit by a ute and spun into a station wagon near Paihia yesterday.

A young driver who crashed into a truck carrying stock feed might have been blinded by dust on the rural road, police say.

The motorcyclist who died after hitting a fence yesterday afternoon was riding with a group that included his family and friends.

Several people have been taken to hospital after a crash in South Otago.

A van carrying alcohol rolled on Auckland's South Western Motorway causing traffic mayhem today.

The road toll now stands at six after a person died in a crash between a car and a truck in near Christchurch this afternoon.

A police spokesman said the fire service had cut three people from vehicles.

Two women died in a head-on crash after leaving a whanau get-together and police are working to establish if driver in fatal crash was using phone.

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Emergency services were called to an extremely remote area east of Raglan where a motorbike crash occurred

Since the start of the official holiday road toll there have been 373 crashes on New Zealand roads and three lives have been lost.

The holiday road toll stands at one and so far there have been 251 crashes across New Zealand.

Crash data from a notorious piece of road popular with Auckland holidaymakers could hold clues on how to lower New Zealand's road toll.

A Christmas Day crash in Northland has brought the holiday road toll to one, dashing hopes for zero fatalities.

A person has died after a three-vehicle collision near Whangarei this evening.

One person has been critically injured in a road accident in Ranui.

Police are repeating calls for motorists to slow down after a spate of crashes since Christmas Eve.

Police are seeking witnesses of a hit-and-run crash involving a cyclist.

An 84-year-old man was airlifted to Christchurch Hospital yesterday following a collision on State highway 7.

Two seriously injured young children crawled to safety as their father lay dead in their car after a crash on Ashburton Gorge Rd last night.

Robert Su, with whom Karen had been together for eight years, was crossing Fanshawe St when a truck ploughed through a red light and hit him.

A father of two young children who was killed in a car crash will miss out on seeing his daughter and son grow up.

A 22-year-old man killed in a head-on crash in Te Awamutu was in breach of his learner's licence, police say.

There's been more trouble for motorists on State Highway 1 after a single-vehicle crash on the road used as a diversion due to an earlier crash.

A man has died and two others have multiple injuries after a head-on crash in Te Awamutu, leaving the road temporarily closed.

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Detours are in place after truck crash on the Desert Road early this morning.