One person has suffered serious injuries after a train and a car collided in Hawkes Bay this afternoon.

Two people suffered minor injuries when a car and a tour bus, with 24 passengers, collided in Fiordland today.

Neighbours who alerted a family to a burning truck in their front yard early yesterday say it was only luck the house didn't burn down.

A prison van that collided with a crane on State Highway 2 is blocking traffic near Katikati.

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.

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.

There has been a three-car crash north of Wellington this morning, resulting in the death of a cow.

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.