Beverley Potts feared the worst for her little grand-daughter while waiting in agony to be cut free of her wrecked car at a notorious South Auckland crossroad.

The drivers of two cars were killed after one is believed to have drifted across the centre line and collided with the second vehicle head-on last night.

One of two young girls hit by an alleged drink driver in the Bay of Plenty yesterday has been transferred to Auckland for treatment.

An alleged drink driver has struck and injured two young girls while reversing from a driveway in the Bay of Plenty.

Two people were injured as a car was crushed between two buses in an Auckland suburb this morning.

A driver in a crash that killed a young Otago man has been sentenced to two years and eight months in jail and disqualified from driving for four years.

A grieving mother has made an emotional plea to a mystery motorist linked to the crash that killed her teenage daughter.

Two of New Zealand's top musicians are mourning a relative who died after being knocked down at a dangerous Auckland road crossing on her way to a karaoke club night.

A man has told of a teenage boy's desperate attempts to get help for his girlfriend who died when the car they were in crashed this morning.

Speed and alcohol are not thought to have been factors in a horror accident in which a Waikato jogger was crushed to death by an out-of-control 4WD, police say.

A female jogger was killed after being struck by a 4WD and pinned against the wall of a nearby house in Morrinsville this afternoon, police say.

Two people have suffered moderate injuries after their vehicle crashed in Northland this morning, trapping one of the occupants.

A refrigerated truck and trailer carrying meat and vegetables has rolled in south Otago, blocking State Highway 1.

Thinking her husband was dead, Nina Bartlett scrambled out of bed to get to her newborn baby seconds after a stolen car ploughed through their bedroom at 150km/h.

A stolen car sought by police in connection with an assault ploughed into a large road sign pole in Hamilton, critically injuring a teenager.

An 83-year-old woman driver died after her BMW and a stock truck collided on the outskirts of Hamilton yesterday afternoon.

A driver died after their car collided with a stock truck in Hamilton this afternoon.