A male driver is said to have been hysterical after learning a child had been badly injured in a crash last night.

Two promising rugby players are fighting for their lives last night after they were thrown from a vehicle that crashed on a remote road after a party.

Warkworth man Karl McCallion, 46, died in a crash on SH1 near Satellite Station Rd intersection about 9.15pm Saturday, police said.

John Key says blanket lowering of speed limits not the answer to making roads safer after weekend in which ten people died in crashes.

A planned Mother's Day reunion has ended in tragedy for an Auckland family who lost three relatives in a horrific car crash.

A number of people are dead after a fiery vehicle crash in the Bay of Plenty tonight. One of the vehicles was engulfed in flames and it was not yet known how many people have died.

Police want to speak to the driver of a van after two people died in a head-on crash on State Highway Three near Marton this afternoon.

The woman is understood to have been travelling with her daughter into Hahei township, while the second vehicle - carrying two foreign tourists - was leaving.

A two-car crash near a busy interchange has obstructed traffic this morning.

Two trucks have collided at an intersection outside of Christchurch this morning.

A man is being treated for minor injuries after a rather spectacular crash which saw his car land in the middle of a busy Hamilton roundabout.

Residents of a south Auckland street have been advised to stay indoors after a car crashed into a house and ruptured a gas main this morning. Emergency services were called to the scene of the crash on Ballycullanie Place, Dannemora, about 9.45am, a fire service spokesman said.

Residents of a south Auckland street have been advised to stay indoors after a car crashed into a house and ruptured a gas main this morning.

A motorcyclist was critically injured when his bike crashed into a fence in Whanganui tonight.

A truck has jack-knifed near Dunedin this morning closing city-bound lanes on State Highway 1.

State Highway 8 is down to a single lane just north of Omarama following a crash early this morning.

A person has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after being struck by a car on Victoria Street in central Auckland.

Five deadly crashes in Mercer, New Plymouth, Rotorua, and in Whakatane claimed six lives over the long weekend.

A vehicle with two occupants sideswiped another vehicle before losing control and crashing into the Mt Albert Pak’N’Save on New North Road.

I saw a really cute toddler last Monday afternoon. She had cute little pigtails, a pink onesie and no one with her, writes Matt Heath.

The owner of a busy central Auckland restaurant is unsure when he can reopen after a car smashed through the front window last night.

A car has smashed through a glass window into a busy central Auckland restaurant tonight. Police were called to the scene at 8.50pm, to find the Holden commodore inside Paradise Garden restaurant on Vogel Lane, near the Skytower. A police spokesman said there were about 15 people in the restaurant at the time, but neither customers, nor the car's male driver were injured.

A male pedestrian is in serious condition after he was hit by a car as he crossed the road in Tauranga tonight.

One person has died following a crash involving two cars and a truck in Canterbury this afternoon.

A New Zealand Herald delivery driver could have survived an early morning crash today if he had been wearing his seatbelt, police say.

A driver who crashed a stolen car into a suburban house was among several people caught up in car crashes and police pursuits overnight.

A man who died after his car crashed off a bridge and plunged down to a car park below has been named by police.