Police are hoping New Zealand will avoid a repeat of last year's Queen's Birthday road horror and have promised to put the brakes on bad drivers.

As he lay trapped under an SUV, a cyclist critically injured in a car accident in central Auckland was asking people to lift the vehicle off him.

Emergency services assess the scene of a Delta truck, which came off McMeeking Rd, on the Otago Peninsula, and rolled yesterday.

Harman Singh says act of cradling young boy who had been hit by car helped him cope with father's death. "If he could see me right now, I think he would be proud."

A bend in a busy Auckland road with a history of crashes has claimed its fifth victim in just two days.

Two people were killed on the roads in separate incidents during the weekend.

The funeral for a 14-month-old toddler who was fatally hit by a car in Kamo last week will be held today at the Pehiaweri Marae in Whangarei.

Two weeks ago, 11 people died on the roads in one weekend. Simon Plumb looks at the impact these tragedies have had on those who remain.

Four people have been injured, two of them seriously, in a car crash this afternoon.

A man has been charged with causing the death of a Winton truck driver injured at a Christmas party in the town last year.

A female in her late teens was the sole occupant of a car which left the road and crashed down a bank in the Coromandel this morning.

An unlicensed driver who killed his friend after crashing an unwarranted car during a high-speed police chase has been jailed for five years.

Several cars have slid off the road after a large diesel spill in south Auckland this morning.

The driver of a car that hit a 6-year-old boy on his way to school has given an emotional apology to the boy's family.

A 19-year-old woman driving a ute which skidded off the road and rolled into a paddock has told of the panicked minutes before she was rescued.

Two people have been taken to hospital following a crash involving a ute near Warkworth this morning.

A man killed when his car plummeted off a bridge and into a river northwest of Whangarei last week has been named by police.

A car has crashed into Burger King on Bader Drive in the South Auckland suburb of Mangere. Four occupants have been transferred to Middlemore hospital with moderate to serious injuries. An investigation by Serious Crash in underway to find out the cause of the accident.

A 5-year-old boy is now in a stable condition at Starship Hospital after he was hit by a car in South Auckland.

Richie McCaw's old rugby club has cancelled tomorrow's match in honour of a clubmate killed in a horror crash last weekend.

Community support has been lauded after a crash in the Hakataramea Valley at the weekend in which six people were thrown from a four-wheel-drive vehicle.

A truck driver was taken to Southland Hospital with moderate to serious injuries last night after being trapped in his crashed truck for almost four hours.

A father was driving past the wreckage of a car crash by chance when he learned his wife and son had died at the scene.

Eight people, including five students, have been taken to hospital after two buses collided on Auckland’s North Shore this morning.

A prominent conservationist is reflecting on his good fortune he was chasing a possum and not sitting in his ute when it was hit and shunted off the road and over a 100m bluff.

A rubbish truck has overturned in central Wellington after a collision with a taxi.

Jarrad Ethan Blackler is being remembered as an ''ultimate rugby player'' for the Kurow club with a love of the hills.

A teen pulled the battery from a crashed car to stop it being restarted as petrol spilled around.

The family of a keen rugby player who died yesterday, several days after a crash near Kurow in Canterbury, say he had made many plans for the future with them.

The family of a keen rugby player who died following a crash near Kurow in North Otago says he made many plans for the future with his family.