Since the start of the official holiday road toll there have been 373 crashes on New Zealand roads and four deaths.

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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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.

The crash happened on Ngongotaha Road at about 4.30pm when two cars collided.

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.

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

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.

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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.

A crash involving five cars has closed off a section of State Highway 1, south of Christchurch.