The family of Sonny Rawhiti Kemp, who died after the ambulance he was being taken to hospital in crashed, are making their way to the Far North to prepare for his tangi.

The 66-year-old man was rushed to Waikato Hospital after he was involved in a head-on collision with a car at 1.20pm, but died in hospital early this evening.

Sonny Rawhiti Kemp, 66, was on his way to hospital when the ambulance smashed into a power pole.

An investigation is under way after an ambulance taking a critically ill man to hospital crashed into a power pole. Shortly afterwards, the man died at the scene.

A St John paramedic involved in an ambulance crash in Northland this morning is now in a stable condition in hospital.

Police today said the 17-year-old youth would appear in Westport District Court on Thursday.

At the time of the crash, police said neither rider was wearing a helmet or any safety gear when their motorcycles collided killing one of them.

The motorcyclist found dead after a crash in Hamilton on Saturday morning was 29-year-old Raglan man Nathan William Nolan.

One person has been rescued from a car that went into a swamp in Avondale this morning.

A spike in the number fatalities on Northland roads has prompted police to call for motorists to slow down.

A meaty carcass has been scooped up off Auckland’s Southern Motorway this afternoon.

A 60-year-old's vehicle collided with a trailer being towed in the opposite direction, before colliding with a second southbound vehicle.

A car has crashed into a bus-stop on the corner of Albert Street and Wyndham Street in Auckland’s CBD this morning.

It was a tragic weekend on New Zealand roads with three people killed and a number badly injured in serious crashes.

A bus driver who was caught by strong winds and thrown under his bus is in a stable condition in hospital.

Three people lost their lives on New Zealand's roads this weekend.

Emergency services are at the crash scene near Clevedon.

Police say the motorcyclist died after a crash in Rotokauri, Hamilton.

A truck, bus and a number of cars have collided at a busy intersection in Central Auckland.

A cow was killed when it wandered on to a South Auckland road today and was struck by a car.

The family of a Northland driver trapped in a car 100m down a ravine believe she might not have been found if a smartphone app had not traced her location.

Viraj Goonasekera has been sentenced him to 200 hours of community work and disqualified him from driving for six months for an April hit-and-run incident.

Man who went to the rescue of a driver described hearing the “big f***ing bang” that woke him, and how nobody realised the man was impaled for up to 30 minutes.

A Hamilton man crashed head-on into a truck then fell off his bike before it burst into flames in the Waikato.

An eyewitness understood the man was impaled in the abdomen and it appeared a piece of fence had gone through the car.

A motorcyclist was injured after apparently skidding in heavy rain as he crossed Auckland's Harbour Bridge during last night's stormy weather.

Injured and dazed after crashing 100m down a bank, a Northland woman battled faltering cell phone reception and beeped her car horn to alert rescuers.

Dylan Chad was banned from driving for three years over the 2013 death of a mate. But he appeared in court last week on a charge of driving while disqualified.

A male motorcyclist who crashed head-on into a truck this morning became separated from his bike on impact before it burst into flames.

The accident occurred at the intersection of State Highway 57 and Waihou Rd about 8pm Sunday when a northbound and southbound vehicle collided.