A Mainfreight truck has been left on the edge of a 15-metre cliff following an accident.

The health of Jerry Collins' baby daughter is improving as she fights for her life in hospital following the French car crash that killed her mother and father.

In a game full of hard men, Jerry Collins, the kid from Porirua, stood out head and shoulders - and 58cm biceps - above them all.

The passenger of a car that crashed in Feilding yesterday has died in hospital.

Children among four people hurt after truck rolls in the Bay of Plenty, with one of the four critically injured.

A car that struck a power pole cut electricity to 600 homes in Auckland this morning.

Two pedestrians have died and one is in hospital in a serious condition after being hit by vehicles in separate incidents in the past two days.

A person has been taken to hospital after being hit by a bus in central Auckland tonight.

An elderly woman has died after being hit by a van in Orewa this afternoon.

The mother of Mosgiel brother and sister Shannon and Danielle Kiriau has slammed the jail term handed to the pair's killer.

A reduced Queen's Birthday weekend road toll is still not good enough, say police.

The pedestrian who was hit by a truck on Fanshaw St in Auckland tonight has died.

A learner driver who killed two Mosgiel siblings - including his then girlfriend - has robbed a mother of seeing what her children would become, he was told this morning.

The country’s top road cop is lamenting the deaths of five people over the Queen’s Birthday holiday weekend, including a 5-year-old boy who died in hospital yesterday.

There were feral scenes outside a Dunedin courthouse as associates of a learner driver jailed on two counts of manslaughter took their anger out on the media.

The Queen's Birthday holiday road toll stands at a minimum of three this evening, with potentially a further fatality, following a number of crashes over the weekend.

On the final day of the long weekend, motorists are being urged to prepare for their journeys home.

One person died and eight were injured on the roads in a chaotic start to the holiday weekend.

A woman died after trying to do a U-turn when a logging truck struck her vehicle outside of Te Puke this morning, police say.

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.

One person has been seriously injured after a truck rolled in the Waikato this afternoon. Emergency services were called to the scene at the junction of Waverly Rd and Seddon Rd about 2pm.

Mororway traffic has ground to a halt following a crash involving two vehicles near Pokeno, south of Auckland, this afternoon.