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.

A woman in her 70s is dead after the vehicle she was driving hit a fence in Remuera.

A man was killed when his car hit a tree on a Wellington residential street last night.

A woman who was popping in to town to pick up fish and chips for dinner has been airlifted to hospital after she was involved in an accident.

Friends and family of a young soldier killed in a vehicle crash in South Otago have posted tributes following his death.

Arborist keen to climb trees again after Los Angeles motorcycle accident cost him his limb.

Crashes that left two people fighting for their lives were among at least four in the top half the North Island today.

A section of State Highway 25 in the Coromandel is closed after a crash in which three people were injured, one critically.

Police are urging motorists to practise safe-driving procedures in a bid to keep down the number of crashes, injuries and deaths.

Police said the teen died when his car left the road and struck a bank.

Sober drivers must remain completely alcohol-free this festive season, says a charity that works with crash victims.

The deaths of three foreign tourists should act as a catalyst for an increased safety focus at known danger areas on Southern roads, a Coroner has recommended.

The man has been disqualified from driving for two months and ordered to do 120 hours of community work.

Former King's College prefect killed in a motorbike accident, 12 years after his sister was tragically hit and killed by a motorcyclist on the tiny Pacific Island.

Police were alerted to the crash on the corner of Mcannalley St and Great South Rd in Manurewa, about 11.20am.

Police said the boy had been hit by a kindergarten van doing pick-ups in the Flaxmere cul-de-sac.

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Kevin Raymond Ambler, 60, from the Coromandel, died when his car hit a bridge on the Thames Coast Road on Thursday.

David Hills was killed on Saturday travelling back to Palmerston North with friends in a crash with a truck that left their car barely recognisable.

Three young lives ended when their car collided with a truck on State Highway 1.

Police are pleading with motorists to take care after at least seven people died over the weekend taking the year's road toll to 303.

At least seven people have died on the country's roads this weekend, with a crash near Carterton the latest.