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.

A motorcyclist died when a vehicle collided with a group of bikers near Rotorua yesterday afternoon.

When Elliot Ikilei spotted a small car broken down on the fast lane of a busy Auckland motorway, he knew he had to help get its occupants out fast.

A Swedish woman working in New Zealand as a horse trainer has been sentenced to community work for causing a crash that killed a 50-year-old motorcyclist.

A woman has been critically injured when her vehicle left the road and ended up in a Counties Manukau paddock early today.

A truck carrying an oversized shed is causing delays on Auckland's southern motorway.

Rutger Hale's partner believes the mystery of his death from an unknown object could be solved if the driver of a white utility vehicle would just come forward.

One person has died after a car and a truck collided on Main South Road in Rolleston.

Traffic has been backed up for more than four hours after a truck carrying methanol rolled on the Napier-Taupo highway.