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 parents of a baby who died after allegedly being unrestrained in a car that crashed have been charged.

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

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.

Police are investigating whether another vehicle was involved in the crash which flipped a rubbish truck, killing its driver.

One of Auckland's busiest motorways could be closed for hours after a fatal rush-hour crash. One truck driver died after the cab of the recycling or rubbish truck he was driving separated from the truck and "ended up on the opposite side" of the Southwestern motorway.

It was 5.30 in the morning when this truck crashed over a bank and became entangled in vegetation. Rescue workers are surprised the driver is still alive.

A 6-year-old boy died during a horror day on North Island roads yesterday.

A man is dead after his motorbike collided with a ten tonne truck last night.

A motorcyclist was killed when his bike and a truck collided near Tauranga this evening.

The three tourists from Hong Kong were killed when their rental van and a truck and trailer unit collided in Central Otago.

Five tourists were injured when their Toyota Land Cruiser rolled down a bank in Otago yesterday.