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.

Garth Barfoot has waived $11,000 in reparation a court ordered the woman who knocked him off his bicycle to pay him.

Matt Ruddell says it's the little things that are getting him through, as his two young children slowly recover from a horror car crash that killed his former partner.

State Highway 2 in the Western Bay of Plenty will be closed for about an hour after a truck ran off the road this morning.

'It's going to be the worst thing I've ever had to do.' The father of two young children injured in a crash that killed their mother is dreading telling them the truth.

A male pedestrian has been critically injured after being hit by a car south of Woodlands in Southland.

Two children continue to fight for their lives after a car crash that took the life of their mother yesterday.

Two children badly injured in a fatal crash in the Bay of Plenty may be taken to Auckland's Starship Hospital for further treatment.

A loving 28-year-old father who fell from his motorcycle in Waipukurau nine days ago has passed away in Wellington Hospital.

A woman who drank a bottle of wine before crashing head-on into an elderly couple, leaving them life-threatening injuries, is sentenced to 8 months home detention.

In the aftermath of a violent head-on smash, with her youngest child screaming for "mummy", Debbie Bell looked at her legs and knew she was in trouble.

Eight men have been injured, two critically, in a collision between a van and a logging truck in Hawkes Bay.

A 19-year-old has died after the car he was in, which was carrying four others, crashed south of Dunedin early today.

A young mother-of-four who "lived every day for her babies" was yesterday farewelled in a moving, tear-filled ceremony after she was killed on a notorious stretch of highway.

Three lives have been claimed on the Riversdale-Waikaia Road in Southland late last night, according to police.

There will be delays tonight for motorists using Auckland's North Western motorway as work begins to repair damage caused by a serious crash this morning.

A woman has described how a man bounced off the front of her car and on to her windscreen before rolling under a bus.

A former top police crash investigator was involved in a head-on smash in almost the exact spot where mother-of-four Lysette Brown was killed on Monday.

Police are warning drivers to pay attention on rural roads after a head-on collision near Paeroa yesterday morning.

Police investigating a fatal west Auckland car crash are looking into whether one car cutting off another began a deadly chain of events.

Detectives have joined officers from the serious crash unit to investigate the death of a 27-year-old Auckland businesswoman in a road smash.