The sister of an Auckland woman killed by a drink driver said sending the man responsible to prison wouldn't bring back her sister.

Alice Scott-Jupp remembers nothing of the head-on crash which left her with 10 broken bones and seven weeks recuperating in hospital.

A Highway Patrol cop has been convicted of dangerous driving and disqualified for three months after a botched pursuit where he crashed a police car while driving at speed on the wrong side of the road.

Police have released the names of the two people who were killed in a motor vehicle crash at Bankside, south of Dunsandel, on Monday.

The driver of a vehicle that crashed in Samoa - killing two Kiwi men - is set to face charges later this week.

Police have warned summer drivers caught over the reduced speed tolerance of 4km/h in December and January to be prepared for the consequences.

Singer Willie Nelson has suspended his tour after three members of his band were hurt when their bus plowed into a bridge pillar in East Texas during rainy conditions.

Rush hour traffic has ground to a halt in Auckland this evening after serious crashes on both the Southern and Northern Motorways and a major arterial road. Two cars collided on Tamaki Drive near the Parnell Pool this afternoon, police said. The road was closed to all traffic between The Strand and Ngapipi Road.

Rush hour traffic has ground to a halt in Auckland this evening after serious crashes on both the Southern and Northern Motorways and a major arterial road.

One person has serious injuries after a crash that has authorities warning motorists to delay their journeys home on the Southern Motorway.

A truck driver was trapped in his cab for more than an hour after crashing into a rock wall north of Nelson overnight.

A man was critically injured when his motorbike struck a sheep on a road south of Hastings yesterday.

A drunk driver breezed through a police breath test despite being almost four times over the drink-drive limit - and was killed in a crash shortly afterwards.

It was a moment of stupidity that almost cost Greg Watts his life - and made headlines around the world. We meet the man who fell from a motorised bar stool.

A teenager had just learned that a friend was on life support in hospital when he was struck by a car and killed just before Christmas last year, a coroner has found.

A teenager who stole a car, got involved in a police chase before smashing head-on into another car caused the accident that killed him, an independent watchdog finds.

Police are looking for youths seen throwing rocks off a motorway overbridge at cars, as forensic tests get underway on an object that killed driver Rutger Hale.

Scenes of destruction in Christchurch are unfortunately nothing new - but how this house came to be ruined is somewhat novel.

Motorists are being told to expect delays around Matamata this morning after a heavy truck and trailer rolled in the early hours of this morning.

Concern over safety of Kmart bicycle after wheel buckles, tossing woman in front of car