A pensioner who lay dead in a car next to his trapped and injured wife for 15 hours has been named as Alan Henry Skittrup, 94, of Taradale.

One person has died and two others are injured after a stolen car crashed in the Hutt Valley.

An 89-year-old woman who survived the impact of a car crash, spent 15 horrific hours trapped and injured beside her husband's body.

An elderly woman lay trapped and badly injured overnight next to her dead husband after their car left a driveway and rolled up to 30 metres down a steep bank.

Phoenix Ruddell keeps himself occupied with cartoons and smartphone apps while his little sister Faith works on her colouring-in book.

A motorcyclist has been taken to hospital with critical injuries after colliding with a car north of Auckland.

A 34-year-old Hawea man has died after the car he was driving flipped several times on Cemetery Road, Hawea Flat.

A man was trapped in his crushed vehicle about 200m down a steep bank for about three hours before he was spotted, emergency services say.

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.

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.

State Highway 1 near Warkworth will be closed from 7.30pm to remove wreckage of a large truck that crashed earlier today south of Pohuehue.

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

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