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.

Hundreds of Hamiltonians woke up with no power today after a driver fleeing police crashed into a power pole.

The motorcyclist killed in a crash near Puhoi yesterday was David Francis Cruickshank, 53, of Wellsford.

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.

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.

An ambulance spokesperson said the child was taken to hospital with minor injuries.

The crash that killed a teenage worker in Auckland this week has prompted calls for tighter safety rules.

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 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.

The man who spent the night out in the open after his car came off the road in the Coromandel has his friends to thank for his rescue.

A volunteer firefighter is mourning the loss of his son who was killed when the motorbike he was riding and a truck collided near Matamata last night.

Emergency services were called to the crash but were unable to save the man who died at the scene shortly afterwards.

Police have named the truck driver who died in a three-vehicle crash near Levin last night.