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

Community support has been lauded after a crash in the Hakataramea Valley at the weekend in which six people were thrown from a four-wheel-drive vehicle.

A truck driver was taken to Southland Hospital with moderate to serious injuries last night after being trapped in his crashed truck for almost four hours.

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.

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

Two promising rugby players are fighting for their lives last night after they were thrown from a vehicle that crashed on a remote road after a party.

Warkworth man Karl McCallion, 46, died in a crash on SH1 near Satellite Station Rd intersection about 9.15pm Saturday, police said.

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 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.

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.