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.

A man has been rushed to hospital with serious injuries after his car smashed into the back of a truck in Auckland tonight.

A 33-year-old man suffered life-threatening injuries in a head-on collision on State Highway 33 at Paengaroa last night.

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

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.

A man who allegedly hit a woman in the rental car he was driving, then fled the scene, has been named.

The man killed in a head-on collision on a Coromandel highway yesterday has been named by police.

A French tourist who backed her rental car over a cliff above Lake Wanaka early yesterday afternoon had a lucky escape from serious injury.

A seriously injured driver was trapped in his vehicle after it and an empty fuel tanker collided in Invercargill today.

It felt like half of Michele Foster-Chambers' body was crushed when she was hit by a car on an Auckland street.

The number of people killed on NZ roads so far this year is 20 per cent higher than at the same time last year, with a "spike" in the number of passengers killed.

Two French tourists whose hired camper van was struck by a landslide on never heard back from Wicked Campers about why the pair were charged more than $2500.

An 8-year-old girl was hit by a car on State Highway 1 today after the car she was in pulled over so the occupants could take photos north of Kaikoura.

One person is dead and another critically injured and trapped inside a car following a head-on collision in the Coromandel this morning.

After a year living in Mexico it's fair to say the roads were chaotic there. But, I truly believe Mexican drivers were better than Aucklanders, writes Sam Judd.

The learner driver of an illegally modified Honda has admitted killing two Mosgiel siblings, as further details of the horror crash emerge.

The crash took place on the Northern Motorway at Dairy Flat around 4.30am.