One person has died after crashing their car in a ditch overnight. Police found the man, near Te Te Aroha in the Matamata-Piako district, Waikato just after midnight.

A man accused of colliding with a group of cyclists near Hamilton last month - killing one and injuring two others - will plead guilty, his lawyer says.

The driver of an overloaded quad bike who crashed, seriously injuring his 6-year-old daughter, has avoided a prison sentence to help prevent his daughter suffering any further trauma.

Eight people have been taken to hospital – two with serious injuries – after two cars collided on the outskirts of Hamilton this morning.

A 14-year-old boy is in hospital with serious spinal injuries after an erratic driver hit three cars on Auckland's North Shore last night.

My 10 days as a cycle-commuting cameraman for the Herald captured incidents of dodgy driving.

A woman had to be cut from her vehicle after a head on crash near Paengaroa in the Bay of Plenty this morning.

A teenage boy was killed when he was hit by a car driven by his friends while playing a game of "possum" on a west Auckland road yesterday, says a resident.

At least one person has sustained serious injuries after a loaded campervan and a small truck collided in the Tasman region.

The drowsy driver who caused a head-on smash that killed Timaru financier Allan Hubbard has been left "totally shocked" by today's guilty decision.

Andy Earl, the driver accused of causing the fatal head-on car crash that killed Timaru financier Allan Hubbard, has been found guilty.

A trapped woman was rescued from a car after a crash which spilled hazardous paint over a west Auckland road this morning.

A mother whose son died after he was run over on a rural Waikato road says the driver responsible has yet to say he's sorry for what happened.

A motorist who drove over a pedestrian on a rural road didn't return to check what he had hit because he thought somebody else was taking care of it, an inquest has heard.

Two expert reports about an incident in which a wedding guest was run over on a Waikato road were ignored by a police crash analyst, a coroner's inquest has been told.

It is turning out to be a bad afternoon for Auckland commuters, as two motorway crashes near the central motorway junction disrupt traffic.

A truck and trailer unit has tipped over and hit a parked car in the Auckland suburb of Parnell.

A man who came across William Hoskins dying on a rural Waikato road last January says the driver who had run over him "put his foot down" and drove off from the scene.

A motorist has died in Manawatu this morning after an intersection crash between a truck and a car.