State Highway 2 in the Western Bay of Plenty will be closed for about an hour after a truck ran off the road this morning.

'It's going to be the worst thing I've ever had to do.' The father of two young children injured in a crash that killed their mother is dreading telling them the truth.

Donations are flowing in for two Tauranga children seriously hurt in a crash that killed their mother, Tracey O'Brien, as she was driving past a Bay of Plenty wedding venue.

A male pedestrian has been critically injured after being hit by a car south of Woodlands in Southland.

Two children continue to fight for their lives after a car crash that took the life of their mother yesterday.

Two children badly injured in a fatal crash in the Bay of Plenty may be taken to Auckland's Starship Hospital for further treatment.

A loving 28-year-old father who fell from his motorcycle in Waipukurau nine days ago has passed away in Wellington Hospital.

A woman who drank a bottle of wine before crashing head-on into an elderly couple, leaving them life-threatening injuries, is sentenced to 8 months home detention.

A woman has been killed in a crash near Kaiapoi in north Canterbury this morning.

One man remained in a critical condition at Hawke's Bay Hospital this morning after collision between a van and a logging truck in Hawkes Bay yesterday.

Eight men have been injured, two critically, in a collision between a van and a logging truck in Hawkes Bay.

A 19-year-old has died after the car he was in, which was carrying four others, crashed south of Dunedin early today.

A young mother-of-four who "lived every day for her babies" was yesterday farewelled in a moving, tear-filled ceremony after she was killed on a notorious stretch of highway.

Three lives have been claimed on the Riversdale-Waikaia Road in Southland late last night, according to police.

A woman has described how a man bounced off the front of her car and on to her windscreen before rolling under a bus.

A former top police crash investigator was involved in a head-on smash in almost the exact spot where mother-of-four Lysette Brown was killed on Monday.

Police are warning drivers to pay attention on rural roads after a head-on collision near Paeroa yesterday morning.

Police investigating a fatal west Auckland car crash are looking into whether one car cutting off another began a deadly chain of events.

Detectives have joined officers from the serious crash unit to investigate the death of a 27-year-old Auckland businesswoman in a road smash.

A woman has described her dramatic escape from her submerged car after it was swept off the road by raging floodwaters.

An elderly man who died after crashing his car into a tree in Auckland two days ago has been identified as Robert Nikora, 74, of Papatoetoe.

The husband of a woman killed in a four-car crash begged her to wake up and get off the road as their young son screamed in agony

Two people have died in separate crashes on Canterbury roads in the past 24 hours, taking the Easter Weekend road toll to four.