A hangover is as dangerous for drivers as being drunk at the wheel, a study suggests.

A man is in critical condition after his car hit a power pole and rolled on the outskirts of Wairoa yesterday.

Forensic scientists have made "some progress" towards identifying the object which struck and killed motorist Rutger Hale near Lake Hawea seven weeks ago, police say.

Live power lines and a large number of agitated bees are posing problems for motorists and emergency services following a fatal crash in Waikato this morning.

Drivers who crash on open roads during the Christmas and New Year holidays are more likely to be injured than at other times of the year.

Police are currently attending a crash involving a truck and trailer unit on State Highway 90 about 5km south of Waikoikoi, near Gore.

A woman has been killed when her car crashed into a trailer carrying a house south of Ashburton this morning.

A bee appears to have caused a crash between two motorcycles near Milton yesterday.

A woman has died after her car crashed into a horse on a rural road near Christchurch.

A driver has been thrown from his truck when it rolled south of Auckland.

'It was trying to make a withdrawl.' A bus is stuck under the awning of the old ASB building in Auckland's CBD following a two-bus collision this morning.

A truck that rolled onto its side after hitting a bridge has blocked State Highway 29 near Matamata in both directions.

The distraught father of a 9-year-old boy who drowned when their car rolled into a dredge pond told those who came to his aid "my babies, I couldn't get them out''.

A man who hit a jogger with his car, took her body and dumped it in a reserve 10km down the road, will spend at least the next 13 years behind bars.

An overturned truck with two trailer units has rolled on State Highway 3 between Wanganui and Waverley this morning, blocking the road.

When Haumoana man Colin Wiggins drives to work, he's reminded of the afternoon he helped drag two injured people from their burning vehicles after a crash.

A 76-year-old man has died after a three-car collision south of Levin today, police say.

The sister of an Auckland woman killed by a drink driver said sending the man responsible to prison wouldn't bring back her sister.

Alice Scott-Jupp remembers nothing of the head-on crash which left her with 10 broken bones and seven weeks recuperating in hospital.

A Highway Patrol cop has been convicted of dangerous driving and disqualified for three months after a botched pursuit where he crashed a police car while driving at speed on the wrong side of the road.