A teenager and a 20-year-old died in an after-party crash caused by the unlicensed driver reaching 145km/h while racing his overloaded vehicle, a coroner has found.

A man has today handed himself into police over the hit and run of a teenage boy crossing a road in Auckland at the weekend.

Rugby player Chris Eaton paid an emotional tribute to his wife Hannah at her funeral in Napier, saying words could not describe the love he had for her.

Auckland diners on Dominion Road watched in horror as a teenager crossed a busy street and was hit by a car whose driver failed to stop and is still at large.

UPDATED Police are still searching for a car involved in a hit and run that has left a teenage boy in an Auckland hospital overnight.

A teenage boy has been hospitalised with serious injuries after a hit and run in Auckland this evening.

A man has been seriously injured after falling off the back of a ute in the Tasman region early this morning.

Just hours before being fatally struck by a car on a dark highway, 18-year-old Jovaan Graham was urged by her cousin to stay with her in Rotorua.

A pregnant woman was among those hit when an elderly woman accidentally drove her car into a bank in central Tauranga this morning, witnesses say.

Two people were injured this morning in a four vehicle crash in Tauranga which blocked State Highway 2 near the southern end of Welcome Bay Rd.

Hannah Eaton was known as the wife of rugby star Chris Eaton, but she had a life of her own as a mum, a part-time model and in the last month, a midwifery graduate.

The official Easter holiday period ended at 6am today with three deaths too many, according to the country's top traffic officer who said the figure "shouldn't be tolerated".

The Easter holiday road toll has risen to two following a fatal crash north of Taupo early today.

The group leader of a Bay of Plenty college's mission trip to Kenya was asleep when a driver-swap put a teen behind the wheel in a minivan crash that killed four people.

A 19-year-old man who rolled his ute called his own ambulance after laying trapped for two hours with spinal injuries.

A cyclist hit and killed by a car in east Christchurch yesterday has been named by police.

A male cyclist is in critical condition after being hit by a car in Christchurch this afternoon.

Emergency services say it is a miracle that a Napier man walked away with minor injuries from a serious truck crash near Gisborne yesterday.