A serious collision between a car and truck has forced State Highway 1 to close through Te Horo, south of Otaki.

A man had just left his lounge when a car came flying through two fences, two walls of his house and landed on the couch he was sitting on minutes earlier.

Motorists are being advised to expect delays after an earlier crash on the Northwestern Motorway.

A woman who died in a car crash on the Haast Pass yesterday morning has been named by police.

Four people were injured in the two-car crash on State Highway 16, at Kumeu yesterday afternoon.

A person has suffered minor injuries after a crash involving a bus and a van.

Cyclist David Keys, who was left a quadriplegic after riding into a sinkhole, back home with the dog that helped save his life.

Dylan Chad was sentenced to 150 hours community work, six months supervision and another six months disqualification from driving.

A woman has died in a car crash on wintry roads in the Haast Pass this morning.

A car has flipped on State Highway 1 in Northland, leaving one person injured.

A teenage driver has died after a crash with a logging truck in rush-hour Christchurch traffic yesterday.

The crash reportedly happened when a car slid down a cliff in the Coromandel.

A police patrol car has crashed into a lamp post in Hamilton.

A motorcyclist who died after a collision with a car in Waikato last week had been the subject of a complaint about his riding only moments before the crash.

Police are still investigating an incident that has left a man critically injured after being hit by a car outside the Auckland Darts Masters.

A car has hit a pole in a crash that closed a part of State Highway 1B near Gordonton.

Police were called to State Highway One at Windy Ridge south of Warkworth shortly after 1.30pm. Officers arrived to find one person in a serious condition.

Firefighters are battling to free the person from the car and the extent of their injuries are unknown.

A suspected stolen car crashed into the front yard of a house in Mt Wellington early this morning, after an apparent police chase.

He was 44-year-old Pradeep Edirisinghe of Sri Lanka.

A tourist was airlifted to hospital yesterday evening after his rental van crashed and rolled on to its roof near Charleston, blocking State Highway 6 for about two hours.

Three people have died in crashes on the nation's roads since late last night and a fourth has been killed in a quadbike incident.

The crash involved two vehicles, and the male driver of one of the vehicles died in the collision, police said.

A young man who died in a crash in the Waikato last night was not wearing his seatbelt at the time of the crash.

There are reports of multiple crashes this morning.

Friends and family have paid tribute to the ''beautiful, vibrant and feisty young woman'' who died after a car crash near Mt Cook.

The 18-year-old was a passenger in a black Toyota hatchback which police think left Tasman Valley Rd at a slight bend and rolled early on Monday morning.

The collision saw a car wedged between two trucks on a busy state highway - but no-one was injured.

The crash between a van and people mover vehicle ended up with the van on the footpath.

The colleagues of a teenager who died in a single vehicle crash in Aoraki Mt Cook National Park early this morning say she will be "truly missed".