A young woman whose car crashed "head first" down a 60m bank before flipping managed to crawl out of the vehicle and phone emergency services and family.

A 21-year-old Hamilton woman has serious injuries after her car left the road and crashed down a slope about 100m long in Waitomo this afternoon.

A young West Auckland plumber has been sentenced to almost two years in prison after the deaths of two of his friends while he was driving drunk last year.

Crowds at the CRC Speedshow got a spectacular but safe demonstration of the power of a head-on crash at 60km/h when cars were dropped from a crane yesterday.

A truck driver is thought to have been on the phone to his nephew the moment his vehicle plunged down a cliff near Kaikoura, his brother says.

Two families will never be the same again. Shane Summerfield lost his wife, Sally, and his 12-year-old daughter, Ella; Sam Summerfield lost his mother and his little sister.

A Taumarunui mum is serving a life sentence. Her gut instinct told her it wasn't safe to hold her baby in her lap and put the carseat in the boot , but Mary Navacilla did it anyway, just this once.

A person has died after a motorbike crash north of Auckland.

One person was taken to hospital in a critical condition after a crash on Auckland's Tamaki Drive this morning.

A search will continue this morning for a truck driver who has been missing since his vehicle crashed off a bank south of Kaikoura early on Wednesday.

A search will continue throughout the evening for a truck driver who has been missing since his vehicle crashed off a bank south of Kaikoura more than 24 hours ago.

A hit a tree south of Gore this morning, and the impact was enough to split it in two.

A Napier truck driver negotiating the steep Otira Viaduct for the first time probably experienced brake failure, a coroner has ruled.

A crane arrived this afternoon at the scene of a truck crash on the Kaikoura coast in which the driver has been missing since this morning.

An 18-year-old woman who was thrown 15 metres in a crash in Apiti on Friday died in hospital.

The first of a series of new fixed speed cameras has gone live today.

A man was killed on the Moutere Highway, Nelson, after being struck by a vehicle.

A young woman was thrown 15 metres from a vehicle following a crash in the Manawatu region early today.

A woman is in hospital on life support following a crash in the Manawatu region in the early hours of this morning.

Two men are in hospital, with one in critical condition, after a crash early today.

What was meant to be the start of a long-awaited family holiday turned into every parent's nightmare.

Three teenage boys are in hospital following a police pursuit which ended with the car they were in slamming into a pole on Auckland's North Shore.

The daughter of a cyclist killed after being hit by a courier van on Monday said her mother was "very safety conscious" and would be "incredibly missed".

The young man whose vehicle collided with a train on Northpark Rd, just north of Ashburton, has died in hospital.