Two people have been taken to hospital with injuries after a three car crash in Coatesville this evening.

Firefighters had to free someone trapped in their car after it rolled in Auckland this afternoon.

Debris littered a suburban St Heliers road this morning after a car crashed into a parked vehicle.

Two people are in a critical condition, and three others have moderate injuries after a three-vehicle crash on State Highway 1 north of Puhoi.

A man became trapped in his car after hitting a tree in Browns Bay last night.

Motorists heading into Auckland from the North Shore this morning should expect delays on the motorway.

No serious road accident involving a visitor to this country represents good publicity for the tourism industry.

When Hannah Scott lay in Dunedin's intensive care unit in a coma in 2009, doctors told her parents to be "realistic" about her chances.

One person has been flown to hospital after suffering serious injuries when their vehicle collided with a milk tanker.

The boy fell from his motocross bike and was struck by another motorcycle in the Bay of Plenty.

The death of a motorcylist after his bike collided head-on with a car is the latest in a series of tragedies that happened over the weekend.

The accident happened in Waimana in the rural Bay of Plenty.

An Auckland man who lost a leg in a motorbike crash in the US says he has cheated death.

The 44-year-old man was walking with an associate alongside the road when he was hit by a truck.

A man who was killed when he was struck by a milk tanker near Te Puke last night has been named.

Two people were taken to hospital after a car went into a ditch in Morrinsville early this morning.

The injured patient was airlifted by Waikato Westpac Rescue Helicopter to Waikato Hospital.

Two trucks have crashed on State Highway 1 in Waikato, spilling some of their loads and prompting police to put diversions in place.

Nearly 30 more people have died on the roads so far this year than at the same time last year.

A Hamilton man will fight a serious driving charge over the death of his friend and fellow motorcyclist on the outskirts of the city earlier this year.

Two trucks have crashed in southeast Auckland, causing major traffic delays, police say.

A crash which killed a teenage girl this week is the second fatal accident to involve an Onyx rubbish truck in Birkenhead in recent years.

The older sister of the 19-year-old woman who was killed in a rubbish truck crash in Auckland says she was dreading seeing the site.

Emergency services are at the scene of a crash, near the intersection of Riccarton Rd and Clyde Rd in Christchurch this morning.

One person is dead and another injured after the rubbish truck they were in plummeted 10m down a bank.

Temperatures got as low as -6C in parts of Otago overnight, and councils throughout the South Island are warning of widespread black ice and severe frosts.

A code of practice has been finalised to better screen and educate tourist drivers before they hire a vehicle in New Zealand.

A teenager who killed his best friend in a street race two years ago has admitted breaching a three-year driving ban to get computer games.