Police were called to State Highway One at Windy Ridge south of Warkworth shortly after 1.30pm. Officers arrived to find one person in a serious condition.

Firefighters are battling to free the person from the car and the extent of their injuries are unknown.

Firefighters had to free an injured motorist after a two-car crash in St Johns, Auckland.

A pedestrian is in a critical condition after being struck by a car in west Auckland last night.

A suspected stolen car crashed into the front yard of a house in Mt Wellington early this morning, after an apparent police chase.

He was 44-year-old Pradeep Edirisinghe of Sri Lanka.

A tourist was airlifted to hospital yesterday evening after his rental van crashed and rolled on to its roof near Charleston, blocking State Highway 6 for about two hours.

Three people have died in crashes on the nation's roads since late last night and a fourth has been killed in a quadbike incident.

The crash involved two vehicles, and the male driver of one of the vehicles died in the collision, police said.

Friends and family have paid tribute to the ''beautiful, vibrant and feisty young woman'' who died after a car crash near Mt Cook.

The 18-year-old was a passenger in a black Toyota hatchback which police think left Tasman Valley Rd at a slight bend and rolled early on Monday morning.

The collision saw a car wedged between two trucks on a busy state highway - but no-one was injured.

The crash between a van and people mover vehicle ended up with the van on the footpath.

The colleagues of a teenager who died in a single vehicle crash in Aoraki Mt Cook National Park early this morning say she will be "truly missed".

The stretch of road along State Highway 4, near Kopaki, has been closed after logging truck ran off the road, and lost its load.

A motorcyclist critically injured in a crash in Auckland yesterday was a woman in her 40s who was thrown into a ditch after the collision.

Two people have been taken to hospital with injuries after a three car crash in Coatesville this evening.

Firefighters had to free someone trapped in their car after it rolled in Auckland this afternoon.

Two people are in a critical condition, and three others have moderate injuries after a three-vehicle crash on State Highway 1 north of Puhoi.

A man became trapped in his car after hitting a tree in Browns Bay last night.

Motorists heading into Auckland from the North Shore this morning should expect delays on the motorway.

No serious road accident involving a visitor to this country represents good publicity for the tourism industry.

When Hannah Scott lay in Dunedin's intensive care unit in a coma in 2009, doctors told her parents to be "realistic" about her chances.

Hundreds of Hamiltonians woke up with no power today after a driver fleeing police crashed into a power pole.

The motorcyclist killed in a crash near Puhoi yesterday was David Francis Cruickshank, 53, of Wellsford.

One person has been flown to hospital after suffering serious injuries when their vehicle collided with a milk tanker.

The boy fell from his motocross bike and was struck by another motorcycle in the Bay of Plenty.

The death of a motorcylist after his bike collided head-on with a car is the latest in a series of tragedies that happened over the weekend.

The accident happened in Waimana in the rural Bay of Plenty.

An Auckland man who lost a leg in a motorbike crash in the US says he has cheated death.