A truck driver’s head was held above water for by a passer by after his vehicle slid off a bridge into the Keyburn river in Central Otago.

A massive slip near Otira closed the Arthur's Pass highway just after midday today.

A woman has been taken to hospital with head injuries after being hit by a van in central Wellington this afternoon.

New Zealand has been praised at a global forum for slashing its road toll last year, after the ignomy of edging up an international hit parade of carnage in 2012.

Two people were killed this afternoon when a car was struck by a train on a rail crossing at Rotokohu, east of Reefton.

A woman has died after being struck by a reversing car whose driver wedged her jandal between the brake and accelerator, police say.

A serious crash near Auckland International Airport has caused major traffic delays during the Monday rush hour this morning.

The names of a brother and sister killed when an unroadworthy car crashed at high speed in Dunedin on Saturday night have been released.

One man has died after his car left a rural road near Hastings and ended up in a stream.

The two people killed when an unroadworthy car crashed at high speed in Dunedin last night were brother and sister, police say.

A 19-year-old man is in a critical condition after being hit by a car near Gore last night.

The quick response and heroic actions of a group of Bureta women helped save a 58-year-old Tauranga woman whose car plunged over a two-storey bank.

The driver pictured here was travelling on a motorway, with one hand cupping a phone to his ear and the other holding a cigarette.

The passenger who walked away unscathed from a fatal Ferrari crash on Sunday had been looking forward to a ride in his "dream car''.

A 61-year-old Napier car enthusiast, husband and father, killed when his Ferrari crashed, built a career in swimming pools, including several at Sea World.

A Ferrari driver who died yesterday after hitting a wall on a race track was estimated to have been driving at 190km/h at the time.

Emergency services are responding to a report of a person involved in a car, sinking in a body of water south of Te Puke.

A woman injured when the car she was driving toppled from a car park building in Christchurch has now been released from Christchurch Hospital.

A lucky escape for the driver of this vehicle at a shopping mall in Christchurch after the vehicle exited the carpark through a barrier on the 2nd floor.

Auckland motorists are being urged to avoid the Ash Street area of Avondale in Auckland after a car hit a tree.

The father of two preschoolers badly injured in a crash that killed their mother wants to start a campaign to stop people texting while driving.

Motorists heading into Auckland from the North Shore are facing traffic queues backed up to the Harbour Bridge following a crash earlier this morning.