A two-year-old boy has died in a farm accident inland from Gisborne after falling from a utility vehicle.

One person was seriously injured when a ute and a milk tanker crashed in the Bay of Plenty this morning.

One in three aspiring drivers are failing their learner licence theory test, new figures reveal, but that's actually an improvement.

The 14-year-old killed in a crash near Turangi on Sunday has been name as Roman Biddle from Taupo.

A father wants to thank those who tried to save his son's life after a crash early on Saturday.

At least one person has been taken to hospital after a crash between a car and a truck in Dunedin this morning.

Police believe a 14-year-old boy killed in a road crash in Turangi was driving at the time.

A 7-year-old Nelson boy is in a critical condition after being hit by a school bus he walked in front of this morning, police say.

A young woman dragged more than 50m by a hit-and-run driver early yesterday faces a long road to recovery but was able to speak to police this morning and is recovering "better than expected".

A 5-year-old girl was hit by a car outside a school in Rangiora, north of Christchurch, this morning.

Fifteen-year-old Brigitte Allan watched helplessly as her older sister and fellow cyclist Maggie collided with a van during a training ride, followed by four of their friends.

A young woman dragged for more than 50 metres by a hit-and-run driver in south Auckland kept calling for her mum as two good Samaritans tried to comfort her.

A young woman may have been dragged 50 metres by a hit and run driver early this morning, police say.

It was truly miraculous that a series of accidents involving some 130 cars on a fog-shrouded bridge in Kent did not result in deaths, British police said.

As Father's Days go, Robyn Cameron cannot remember one more low-key, or more precious.

Six people have been injured during two crashes near Huntly, one of them seriously. Traffic has been backed up on State Highway One for 14 kms.

A motorist temporarily blinded by sun-strike crashed into the back of a slow moving truck and trailer unit today, leaving him with spinal injuries and lacerations.

The 18-year-old who died after the van she was in plunged off an alpine highway had given birth last year.

The Methven resident was on his way home from Ashburton when he ploughed into three cows at about 7pm on Saturday.

Police are at the scene of a two car crash near Hamurana on the outskirts of Rotorua where one person had to be cut free of the wreckage.

A van that plunged down a cliff in the central South Island yesterday, killing a woman and injuring five others, did not have any back seats, investigators say.

Two women are dead after separate crashes on one South Island alpine highway yesterday.

A woman is dead and five others injured after a van rolled some 30m down a bank onto train tracks in the central South Island this morning, police say.

A woman was critically injured when her car overturned in a crash on Kaihere Road near Kerepehi, south of Thames.

A driver is in hospital after being ejected from his vehicle when it crashed into a bridge on the West Coast of the South Island.