Police are desperate to prevent further deaths and have appealed to people to make smart decisions to ensure they are driving responsibly.

The man who died after his car plunged into a Southland river was a family man, his brother says.

A 7-year-old boy suffered serious injuries in a fall from a motorcycle in Otago this evening.

One person has been seriously injured in an accident in rural Canterbury tonight.

A Dunedin man was "very lucky" to escape serious injury after his car rolled down a bank at Lee Stream near Outram this morning.

One person is injured after a crash in the Kauaeranga Valley, behind Thames.

Seven people have been injured in a car crash in central Christchurch at lunchtime today.

Truck crash spills waste onto Southern Motorway.

Friends and family have made heartfelt tributes to the three young victims of a fatal crash.

Police have confirmed that a two-year-old girl has died following a crash on the HB Expressway.

The man was one of 16 people injured -- two of them critically -- in the accident on New Year's Eve.

A man was airlifted to hospital with neck and back injuries after his car rolled in the Tasman region this afternoon.

A man who had a leg severed in a horrific crash last week in Auckland remains in critical condition.

A pregnant woman and two children were among the injured after a bus and a car collided on Auckland's Hibiscus Coast this afternoon.

The family of a motorcyclist killed in Hamilton this week has paid tribute to a loved husband and treasured dad.

A 13-year-old Oamaru girl involved in a fatal crash has described the harrowing moment a car hurtled down the footpath towards her.

A police investigation has been launched after a man's body was found in a car submerged in a Southland river.

Bystanders have described as "horrendous'' the scene after an elderly driver's car mounted a kerb at speed and hit three pedestrians before colliding with two cars.

A 67-year-old man died and five others were injured after a vehicle drove on to a footpath and then collided with two cars in Oamaru.

A cyclist was taken to hospital after he ran into a car stopped at a pedestrian crossing.

A person has died after a logging truck collided with a car on State Highway 1 near Oakleigh, south of Whangarei, this morning.

The fatal crash happened at 11:30 this morning, at the corner of Thames and Eden Sts in the North Otago town.

Four people in hospital in Oamaru.

A neighbour who tried to save the life of a preschooler hit by a car in a farm driveway near Tokoroa was too distressed later to talk about the fatality.

A drunken crash shattered George Cairney's life, leaving him with a loss of sight, taste, hearing and smell, and no memory of a year either side of the crash.

Emergency services are at the scene of a two-car crash on Auckland's Southern Motorway.

When the Christmas-New Year period ended for accident statistics on Tuesday morning, 12 more people had died on the roads.

Sheep were hurled from a stock truck which rolled on a central North Island highway this afternoon.

Emergency services were called to a two-car crash on State Highway 1 near Huntly about 12.45pm this afternoon.

A drink driver who fled police, sparking a chase which left a power pole damaged, now faces being charged the cost to replace it.