The driver of a car that hit a 6-year-old boy on his way to school has given an emotional apology to the boy's family.

A 19-year-old woman driving a ute which skidded off the road and rolled into a paddock has told of the panicked minutes before she was rescued.

Two people have been taken to hospital following a crash involving a ute near Warkworth this morning.

A man killed when his car plummeted off a bridge and into a river northwest of Whangarei last week has been named by police.

A car has crashed into Burger King on Bader Drive in the South Auckland suburb of Mangere. Four occupants have been transferred to Middlemore hospital with moderate to serious injuries. An investigation by Serious Crash in underway to find out the cause of the accident.

A Dunedin builder smashed the rear window of a sinking car in Otago Harbour to drag its teenage driver to safety.

Navdeep Kaur called out to her brother to come inside for dinner - then a car smashed into the garage, right where her brother had been just moments earlier.

A 5-year-old boy is now in a stable condition at Starship Hospital after he was hit by a car in South Auckland.

Richie McCaw's old rugby club has cancelled tomorrow's match in honour of a clubmate killed in a horror crash last weekend.

A father was driving past the wreckage of a car crash by chance when he learned his wife and son had died at the scene.

Eight people, including five students, have been taken to hospital after two buses collided on Auckland’s North Shore this morning.

A prominent conservationist is reflecting on his good fortune he was chasing a possum and not sitting in his ute when it was hit and shunted off the road and over a 100m bluff.

A rubbish truck has overturned in central Wellington after a collision with a taxi.

Jarrad Ethan Blackler is being remembered as an ''ultimate rugby player'' for the Kurow club with a love of the hills.

A teen pulled the battery from a crashed car to stop it being restarted as petrol spilled around.

The family of a keen rugby player who died yesterday, several days after a crash near Kurow in Canterbury, say he had made many plans for the future with them.

The family of a keen rugby player who died following a crash near Kurow in North Otago says he made many plans for the future with his family.

A male driver is said to have been hysterical after learning a child had been badly injured in a crash last night.

John Key says blanket lowering of speed limits not the answer to making roads safer after weekend in which ten people died in crashes.

A planned Mother's Day reunion has ended in tragedy for an Auckland family who lost three relatives in a horrific car crash.

A number of people are dead after a fiery vehicle crash in the Bay of Plenty tonight. One of the vehicles was engulfed in flames and it was not yet known how many people have died.

Police want to speak to the driver of a van after two people died in a head-on crash on State Highway Three near Marton this afternoon.

The woman is understood to have been travelling with her daughter into Hahei township, while the second vehicle - carrying two foreign tourists - was leaving.

A Sri Lankan national has admitted he struck a woman while driving a rental car and talking on a mobile phone, then fled the scene.

A person is dead and one other seriously injured after a car crashed near a highway this morning.

A two-car crash near a busy interchange has obstructed traffic this morning.

Two trucks have collided at an intersection outside of Christchurch this morning.

A man is being treated for minor injuries after a rather spectacular crash which saw his car land in the middle of a busy Hamilton roundabout.

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.