The teen girl behind the wheel of a car that crashed during a police pursuit has been discharged from hospital while one of her passengers fights for her life.

In their final moments, two teenage sisters sat together in the back of a speeding car on their way to a family cemetery - one pleading with the driver to slow down.

"Alcohol-fuelled madness" on a Tauranga road led to the deaths of two young teens on Christmas Day 2011, a court has been told.

Two of four teenage girls involved in a crash during a police pursuit late on Sunday remain in a critical condition in Auckland City Hospital.

Police say they are "comfortable" with the actions of officers involved in a one-minute pursuit that resulted in four teenage girls fighting for their lives in hospital.

The parents of three-year-old Aiden Lints were told he would never walk again after a major car crash, but the determined toddler is putting one leg in front of the other.

Screams of "I can't feel my legs ... I'm going to die" were heard by a witness shortly after a crash in Kohimarama involving four teen girls who fled a police stop.

One person is dead after a car crash north of Christchurch early this morning.

More than 120 young people were caught driving illegally during a week-long police campaign targeting high schools.

One person has been killed and three people injured in a bus crash in Auckland this afternoon.

The wife of a Wellington man charged with careless driving, resulting in the death of their unborn baby, is devastated about the charges and does not want court action to continue, a court was told today.

A woman was killed on a Waikato farm yesterday when the vehicle she was driving rolled down a bank.

A man was watching the end of an international cricket match in his lounge when a police pursuit came to a dramatic end outside his doorstep.

A Whangarei man was taken to hospital after crashing into a power pole shortly after police abandoned a pursuit of his car.

A man is in intensive care at Dunedin Hospital after he was hit by a car near Dipton last night.

A man who crashed his ute on the outskirts of Hamilton this morning could have been trapped for hours if a witness hadn't seen the vehicle career across a paddock and into a creek.

A Go Bus driver who was carrying 19 Bethlehem College students when he collided with a ute on State Highway 2 has been convicted of careless driving and discharged.

A woman died in a head-on smash between people-mover and an articulated truck in Ormond township, near Gisborne, early this morning.

The Westpac Rescue helicopter is on the way to pick up a seriously injured cyclist after a crash involving a car near Whitianga.

The Australian soldier who died after being struck by a truck and trailer on Saturday, February 16, has been named.

The man who was killed when his ute crashed into a tree north of Turangi on Wednesday night has been named by police.

Police have made an urgent appeal about racing cars linked to a crash which killed a Napier teen only hours before she would have started a hairdressing course.

Every time Mosgiel resident Nick Vermeulen looks in the mirror, the consequences of his actions are reflected in the asymmetry of his face.

Police are investigating whether a space-saver wheel played a part in the crash which killed a Rotorua mother.

An elderly woman is in a critical condition at Middlemore Hospital after a car ploughed into the bus shelter she was waiting in with her two grandchildren in Auckland yesterday.

Police have named a man who died after his car plunged more than 150m off a bank in the Marlborough Sounds on Monday.