An immigrant taxi driver charged with careless driving after his wife lost their unborn baby in an accident says he still has faith in the New Zealand justice system.

Rutger Hale and Danielle Oylear's love story began with a chance meeting in a bar, but it was a cruel twist that tore them apart, his funeral service was told yesterday.

A 50-year-old tourist who died after being hit by a car in Queenstown last night had gone outside to look at the stars, police said.

A motorcyclist suffered life-threatening injuries in East Auckland yesterday after colliding with a vehicle and being flipped into the path of another rider.

Hopes for the first-ever Labour Weekend without a single road fatality were dashed when a 16-year-old boy was killed in the Bay of Plenty early this morning.

A zero road toll this Labour weekend would break a 36-year record, but police say it's not just the number of fatalities they want to cut.

A fleeing driver rammed a police patrol car then crashed into the back of a roadworks truck following a dramatic pursuit involving armed police.

A heavy goods vehicle and a car have collided on the north-western outskirts of Christchurch, and an occupant of the car is being treated for injuries.

One person has been injured in a single vehicle crash near Lake Hawea in Central Otago.

A taxi has smashed into a south Auckland driveway after being hit by a car travelling on the wrong side of the road.

A late-model Aston Martin worth as much as $330,000 did not look so luxurious after crashing into a lamp post on Auckland's waterfront early yesterday.

There has been a second crash on the stretch of southern motorway this afternoon, where traffic is backed up from Manurewa to Manukau.

A collision between a bus and a car on Auckland's North Shore has left one person with serious injuries.

Three Boston University students who died after a car crash near Taupo would likely have survived were they wearing seatbelts, a coroner has found.

One person is in a life-threatening condition following a road smash in South Waikato.

A 6-year-old girl and her 18-month-old sister were trapped helplessly for hours in the wreckage of their car, alongside their mum who would die of her injuries.

A "distraught" father searched along a Waikato road for hours, before finding his partner's car had gone over a bank, killing her and injuring their two children.

A man has been taken to hospital in serious condition after a truck crash in Manawatu.

The motorcyclist knocked from a bridge into a flooded river by an out-of-control truck is out of hospital and aware he's lucky to be alive.

The drowsy driver who caused a head-on smash that killed Timaru financier Allan Hubbard has been fined $2500.