Eleven people have been injured - five seriously - in a horror three-car smash in west Auckland this evening.

Driver of a van that crashed - killing three people - may have only had 20 minutes of experience driving on NZ roads.

Auckland motorists can expect traffic delays on the State Highway 16 this afternoon after a car crashed near the Rosebank Rd exit, Point Chevalier.

The northbound lanes of Auckland's Southern Motorway just before the Papakura on ramp are now open following a serious crash involving multiple vehicles.

The driver has escaped serious injury, but between 7000 and 8000 litres of milk might have been lost from the tanker in Matamata.

A tanker carrying 30,000 litres of carbon dioxide has crashed on State Highway 1 in Northland.

A boyracer who drove over a passenger ejected from another car after a horror 150km/h street race crash fled the scene, fearing he had "just killed someone".

Two trucks have collided near Matamata and police are warning of delays in the area.

Two people remain in serious condition following a three-vehicle crash in Taupo today.

A truck driver was trapped in his cab for two hours after rolling a milk tanker and sliding hundreds of metres down a highway this morning.

A seven-year-old boy was flown to hospital after a car crash on a Northland beach tonight.

Rescuers risked their lives to pull a driver from his wreck after he smashed into a power pole, snapping it half and causing live wires to fall over the vehicle.

A truck from a building site in Pye's Pa rolled and crashed into a bathroom of a house in the Tauranga suburb this morning.

It's understood firefighters were trying to extricate a person from the car.

Drivers have been warned to avoid State Highway One near Lake Karapiro as emergency services keep battling to clean up a chemical spill.

A man is dead after he failed to take a corner and crashed his car off a bridge into the Waikato River.

An inquest into the horrific deaths of seven tourists has heard an appeal to Kiwis to stop blaming foreign drivers for the carnage on our roads.

A coroner's inquest will start today following the deaths of seven tourists in two separate car crashes earlier this year.

A truck driver rescued by other truckies after crashing into a fast-moving creek yesterday is recovering in hospital.

A person was critically injured when a car and truck collided in Otaua, southwest of Pukekohe, this morning.

One person was trapped in a car after the vehicle rolled on State Highway 1 in Auckland this morning.

A man has described how a group of truckies helped smash a window, freeing a trapped truck driver from a cab in a fast-moving creek.

A woman suffered serious injuries when she was struck by a vehicle on Karangahape Rd this morning.

A truck driver who escaped after crashing into a cold, fast-flowing creek is "a lucky boy", firefighters say.

One person has died in a collision between a car and a truck in the Waimana Gorge in the Bay of Plenty.

Police have named the man who died in a head-on collision on Sunday night near Dunsandel, Canterbury.

Emergency services and Muriwai locals have packed a car park at the west Auckland beach for a blessing ceremony at the scene of a quadruple fatal crash.

Emergency services were called out to Dunsandel after two cars crashed head on.

The girl had moderate injuries and was transported to Starship.

Police have confirmed that former All Black Ian Neill Uttley and his wife Christine "Tink" Lee Uttley were killed in a horror crash.