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.

Hugh Foster faces an eight-week hospital stay after two alleged bank robbers in a stolen car smashed into the back of his ute on the Southern Motorway.

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.

A Kaitaia man accused of murdering a 28-year-old woman during a road vehicle incident on Tuesday will defend the charge.

A man who admitted careless driving, causing the death of a Hamilton cyclist had his sentencing delayed when he appeared in court this morning.

A man was killed when his car crashed into a power pole south of Auckland yesterday.

A woman was injured when her car hit a bank and rolled as a result of another vehicle dangerously changing lanes yesterday.

The name of the woman who died after being hit by a car in Kaitaia last night has been released by police.

A family from Hong Kong was lucky their rental van did not roll further than 40m down a gully after it came off the Remarkables access road and rolled several times, ripping a door off.

Police are treating the death of a woman who was run over by a vehicle near Kaitaia this morning as a homicide.

The Desert Road is expected to be blocked for several hours this morning after a truck has rolled.

A bus carrying 27 passengers rolled last night as its driver apparently tried to avoid a truck, leaving six people in hospital.