A serious car crash left Rebekah Holt with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This week she turned to a Kiwi motorsport legend for help.

Two people are dead in a truck-on-car collision on State Highway 4 near National Park this morning.

Families who have lost loved ones in crashes involving foreign drivers horrified at two more deaths.

A police officer was almost in tears after stopping a four-wheel drive crammed with 13 people.

Plummeting numbers of drivers caught speeding in the South Island have coincided with the deadliest year on southern roads in a decade.

Four years ago Abby Benge was as good as dead after a drunk driver ploughed into the car she was driving. Now she's one step closer to her dream.

A Chinese tourist has been fined over a Waitangi Day crash which left a man and woman with serious injuries after being thrown from a motorcycle.

Young drivers are baiting police into initiating high speed pursuits - all to secure dramatic footage, the national police roading manager says.

The son of a Hamilton woman, who was texting and driving before she was killed in a crash, is pleading with drivers to put their mobile phones away.

Police have named the man who was killed in a crash on State Highway 25 at Kopu yesterday.

The mother of a teen-boy killed in a triple-fatality car crash in Canterbury has forgiven the young man who was behind the wheel on December 26.

Motorcyclists dying on country's roads are likely to be older people, who have got more time and cash on their hands to ride deceptively powerful machines.

When the official holiday period finished at 6am yesterday there had been 15 fatal crashes on New Zealand roads since the Friday before Christmas.

Readers discussing the holiday toll have suggested the solutions lie in law improvement rather than law enforcement.

The hair-raising footage viewed almost 20,000 times showing a car weaving down a NZ highway has been condemned by police.

Police are hoping a road speed guide passed before Christmas will help turn around an alarming rising trend in the road toll.

Five people were lucky to escape from a serious crash in the Lewis Pass without life threatening injuries, due to wearing seatbelts.

A Norwegian tourist has penned a piece saying NZ roads are too dangerous and the speed limit should be changed on narrow and winding roads.

Watch: Five months after a crash in which he and his best mate were seriously injured, James Rolleston still struggles to do simple things.

Morgan Tait talks to emergency staff about crashes in which people are injured and sometimes killed.

Plans to recover a bus that plunged down a bank, killing two, have been delayed until tomorrow.

What's behind the horror on our roads? A look into the factors that are causing crashes.

The driver was one of many engaging in "dangerous" behaviour in the past couple of days, police say.

There could be up to 111 fewer police on New Zealand roads this summer.

A Herald investigation reveals the most dangerous roads during the Christmas holiday period.

Brenda Wheatley knows the heartache caused by a driver's decision to use a cell phone while behind the wheel.

The shocking moment a three-year-old boy was hit by a truck in China has been captured on camera.

Dashcam footage has revealed a close call as an SUV and trailer spin out of control on a Nelson road.

As Uber begins using self-driving cars in San Francisco, Nick Allen takes a ride and decides humans are much better company.

Road safety barriers have proved their worth, preventing almost 50 cases of potential serious injury and death in a year.