Police have released the names of two of the people who died yesterday during a horror weekend where six people died and more than a were dozen injured.

Rescue helicopters from Gisborne and Hawke's Bay were called out this morning to take four people injured in a road smash north of Wairoa to hospital.

Two bikers were killed on a toy run for charity when about half a dozen riders were hit head-on by a van yesterday.

Greg Reynolds has seen too many young, inexperienced drivers, older drivers and those who should know better crash outside his business.

Four people have died and fifteen others injured after a series of horror crashes on the road today.

The motorcyclist killed in a fatal head-on-crash crash in the Bay of Plenty this morning has been identified as a 21-year-old farmer.

Pedestrians have suffered almost a quarter of all deaths on roads around Auckland this year, fuelling a call for greater protection from vehicles at intersections.

A three-year-old girl who was run over in a marae carpark near Dargaville on Saturday is in a stable condition in Starship Children's Hospital.

A 38-year-old man was killed when he was thrown into Ahuriri Lagoon in a head-on collision between two trucks on the Hawkes Bay expressway.

Mourners at a tangi watched in horror as a three-year-old girl was run over by a relative in a packed marae car park.

Donations for the family of a cyclist killed outside Dunedin Hospital on Monday have reached $7500.

Kayakers faced dangerous rapids and near-freezing water to clean the Waihohonu Stream of debris spilled from a fatal truck crash earlier this month.

Superstar chef Heston Blumenthal has pulled out of a gourmet food festival in Western Australia after two of his chefs died in a Hong Kong car crash.

A grieving father extended an olive branch of forgiveness to the man who killed his daughter and another driver during an emotional court address.

A cyclist run over by a stock truck outside Dunedin Hospital was a senior lecturer at the University of Otago's Faculty of Dentistry, a husband and father of two preschoolers.

Police want to speak with witnesses who saw an orange Ford Falcon in the hours before the driver was killed when his vehicle crashed into a tree in the Waikato.

A Northland man has started a two-and-a-half year jail term for killing his partner and a man when his unwarranted and unregistered car crashed into another.