A crew member on a bin lorry that killed six Christmas shoppers in Scotland punched the unconscious driver as it careered across a busy square and screamed, "You're killing people, Harry", an inquiry has heard.

A crash involving three vehicles and a horse has left the animal dead and a car trapped under live electrical wires in Horowhenua last night.

A driver of a car is seriously injured after a late night pursuit ended rapidly when a speeding car collided with a truck.

Two people were taken to hospital in a critical condition after a crash on Swanson Road in West Auckland early this morning.

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.

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 man is seriously injured following a crash between a cyclist and a truck in Wellington early this morning.

One person is in serious condition and two others injured following a crash in south Auckland early 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.

Emergency services are at the crash scene near Clevedon.

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

The former All Black flung himself across the car seat to save his baby's life, French officials investigating the crash believe.

A 25-year-old driver smashed into a fence, taking out a tree along the way, and was wedged against the fence with timber pinning his head down.

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.