Police believe a male motorcyclist killed in Christchurch today lost control of his bike.

One was a young man with his life ahead of him, the other a dad who shared his joy in nature and adventure with his two little girls.

Two people are dead and seven injured following a crash between Rotorua and Taupo involving a milk tanker and a van.

A 55-tonne crane and a boat have toppled and crashed into a North Shore house.

A young man who was behind the wheel of a ute that hit a commuter train in Wairarapa, killing his 15-year-old girlfriend, has been sentenced to 200 hours' community service.

An elderly woman who was riding a mobility scooter when she was hit by a truck in Katikati on Monday has died overnight.

Three heroes have been honoured for their bravery after they jumped into a freezing stream to rescue the passengers of a submerged car near Waimate.

'Luckily for me, the van was sturdy.' A Greymouth woman has recounted the moment a massive boulder crashed into the vehicle she was sitting in.

Five people are in hospital this morning after a driver fled police, rammed through an armed police roadblock, and crashed head-on with another car.

The family of slain up-and-coming rugby league star Luke Tipene are gathering for another farewell after his second cousin was killed in a car crash.

A teenager has been arrested and charged today after another teen was killed in a head-on crash.

One person has died after a crash between a car and truck near Christchurch this afternoon.

Police have named the woman killed in a crash outside Whangarei on Friday afternoon as mother-of-three Josephine Tipene.

A motorist who hit a cyclist and left him for dead has been described by the victim as "the lowest of the low".

Two people are dead and two others critically and seriously injured after a cluster of car crashes in Canterbury overnight.

The driver of a grey hatchback is being sought following a collision with a motorbike in Rotorua this morning.

A toddler who died yesterday after she was hit by a car driven by a relative in her West Auckland driveway has now been named by police.

A person has died in a crash between a car and a truck on State Highway 1 south of Whangarei.

A coroner says law changes are urgently needed to get more dangerous drivers off the road, after an inept foreign driver caused a crash killing two motorcyclists.

A man being treated for drinking petrol was killed after he jumped from an ambulance and into the path of a truck in the Hawkes Bay, police say.

An inspection of a bus has shown there were no mechanical faults to cause it to crash into a ditch with 50 school children on board.

Students were cold and shocked when they arrived at Thames Hospital after the bus taking them to camp on the Coromandel crashed early this morning.

A Hawke's Bay mechanic says he found two women - one unresponsive, the other trapped and covered in blood - as he rushed to the scene of a serious crash near Hastings yesterday.

A man in his 60s has died in a crash on the Northern Motorway, north of Auckland.