There were feral scenes outside a Dunedin courthouse as associates of a learner driver jailed on two counts of manslaughter took their anger out on the media.

The Queen's Birthday holiday road toll stands at a minimum of three this evening, with potentially a further fatality, following a number of crashes over the weekend.

On the final day of the long weekend, motorists are being urged to prepare for their journeys home.

One person died and eight were injured on the roads in a chaotic start to the holiday weekend.

A toddler critically injured when he ran into the path of a car on Auckland's Mt Eden Rd had his third birthday this week in a rehab centre.

A bus passenger and a driver of a car were injured in a serious crash in East Auckland on Saturday afternoon.

A woman died after trying to do a U-turn when a logging truck struck her vehicle outside of Te Puke this morning, police say.

Police are hoping New Zealand will avoid a repeat of last year's Queen's Birthday road horror and have promised to put the brakes on bad drivers.

As he lay trapped under an SUV, a cyclist critically injured in a car accident in central Auckland was asking people to lift the vehicle off him.

A bend in a busy Auckland road with a history of crashes has claimed its fifth victim in just two days.

Two people were killed on the roads in separate incidents during the weekend.

The funeral for a 14-month-old toddler who was fatally hit by a car in Kamo last week will be held today at the Pehiaweri Marae in Whangarei.

Two weeks ago, 11 people died on the roads in one weekend. Simon Plumb looks at the impact these tragedies have had on those who remain.

Four people have been injured, two of them seriously, in a car crash this afternoon.

One person has been seriously injured after a truck rolled in the Waikato this afternoon. Emergency services were called to the scene at the junction of Waverly Rd and Seddon Rd about 2pm.

Mororway traffic has ground to a halt following a crash involving two vehicles near Pokeno, south of Auckland, this afternoon.

A man has been charged with causing the death of a Winton truck driver injured at a Christmas party in the town last year.

A female in her late teens was the sole occupant of a car which left the road and crashed down a bank in the Coromandel this morning.

The driver of a car that hit a 6-year-old boy on his way to school has given an emotional apology to the boy's family.

A 19-year-old woman driving a ute which skidded off the road and rolled into a paddock has told of the panicked minutes before she was rescued.

Two people have been taken to hospital following a crash involving a ute near Warkworth this morning.

A man killed when his car plummeted off a bridge and into a river northwest of Whangarei last week has been named by police.

A car has crashed into Burger King on Bader Drive in the South Auckland suburb of Mangere. Four occupants have been transferred to Middlemore hospital with moderate to serious injuries. An investigation by Serious Crash in underway to find out the cause of the accident.

A Dunedin builder smashed the rear window of a sinking car in Otago Harbour to drag its teenage driver to safety.

Navdeep Kaur called out to her brother to come inside for dinner - then a car smashed into the garage, right where her brother had been just moments earlier.

A 5-year-old boy is now in a stable condition at Starship Hospital after he was hit by a car in South Auckland.

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.