Police divers have arrived to look for the driver of a van which plunged into Tauranga Harbour yesterday, as an officer who helped save a passenger is praised.

A police officer risked his own life to save a person from a river after a vehicle went off a bridge near Tauranga this evening.

A 21-year-old Christchurch man killed while riding in a buggy yesterday afternoon may not have been wearing a seat belt.

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.

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.

Cycle cameras have been slammed as "provocative" when used by cyclists venting online video frustration at dangerous driving.

Two teenagers have appeared in an Auckland court charged with manslaughter over an alleged street race which caused the death of another teen.

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.

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 Christchurch cyclist has spent some time under an 18-wheeler truck this morning after being hit at a busy intersection.

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.