A driver involved in a Dunedin crash rushed to give CPR to a dying teenager who lay unconscious in the back seat of the other car.

Police said the 25-year-old driver of the second ute went straight in and pulled a 35-year-old woman and four-year-old boy from the vehicle.

Traffic is backed up on Auckland's on north-bound lane.

Central Dunedin residents have told how they were woken by a sickening T-bone crash in which a teenager was killed early this morning.

A diesel spill stretching for about 15km on a Northland road has been mopped up this morning.

A former Pike River Mine worker died when a van did a u-turn in front of him - bringing yet another tragedy to the mining community.

A Westport woman has admitted to careless driving causing the death of 66-year-old Seddonville woman Marie Evelyn Johnston, after initially denying the charge.

A West Coast man killed in a fatal crash near Christchurch on Sunday evening was a former Pike River miner.

A motorcycle and car have collided on the Northern Motorway this morning, slowing down the commute for city-bound drivers.

A tourist driver who killed an Oamaru 5-year-old girl in a crash will have to wait another two weeks for the result of an appeal against his jail sentence.

Two people had a lucky escape when a car they were in plunged into a river today.

Canterbury Police are at the scene of a fatal crash that occurred in Christchurch.

Police are appealing for witnesses from an incident which saw a speeding vehicle crash in Taumarunui.

People are trapped in a car after it crashed off a bank in Murupara early this evening.

A 26-year-old man lost control of his motorcycle on Waitarere Beach.

One person suffered minor injuries after their car struck a light post in Tauranga this afternoon.

A section of State Highway 12 near the Northland settlement of Ruawai is closed this morning after truck struck and killed a cow about 9am.

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.

Police today said the 17-year-old youth would appear in Westport District Court on Thursday.

At the time of the crash, police said neither rider was wearing a helmet or any safety gear when their motorcycles collided killing one of them.

The motorcyclist found dead after a crash in Hamilton on Saturday morning was 29-year-old Raglan man Nathan William Nolan.