A man has appeared in court facing two charges relating to the car crash that killed popular Rotorua woman Stephanie McHale.

Ambulance staff found the man dead inside the crashed car.

It is believed 17-year-old Ocean Heke was struck by a car while walking home from a friend's 18th birthday party.

Barry Algie, 73, died after he was trapped between two vehicles at his home.

Two people have been taken to hospital after a crash between a car and cart in Taranaki this morning.

A man who died after being crushed between two cars was packing up his house to move.

The injured pedestrian was treated by firefighters before ambulance officers arrived.

Police will close a North Island highway at midday to investigate the death of teenager whose body was found on the side of the road yesterday morning.

A car crash has briefly blocked a lane in the Victoria Park Tunnel on Auckland's northern motorway this morning.

A Wellington mother and her two-week-old baby were uninjured when the car she was driving fell several metres down a bank.

A woman is in a serious condition and two children have minor injuries after two cars collided in Christchurch.

The father of the young boy who was accidently run over by his mother says his son is lucky to be alive, after the car narrowly missed his son's head.

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.

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.

A teenage girl is in serious condition after a two vehicle crash on the West Coast tonight.

Firefighters had to cut four people from the wrecked minibus.

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.