A victim of the horrific crash at Huntly and his Kiwi partner who survived the crash were "an example to most parents", their neighbour says.

A 33-year-old psychology student has admitted leaving a trail of destruction following a drunken wild ride through Mornington last month.

A 46-year-old Tokoroa woman has died after being hit by a truck and trailer unit while walking along State Highway 1 at Kinleith in

A victim of the horrific crash at Huntly was First Violinist with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.

A woman has been killed after being hit by a truck in South Waikato early this morning.

Motorists say lack of information about closed roads around Taranaki added more than six hours to their journey.

A wooden fence post fell off the back of a truck and went through the windscreen of a vehicle the driver was passing.

The bus driver and a 10-year-old child are among the four people killed after a bus carrying a junior college football team to its first game ever crashed.

A search operation was mounted after people were feared missing in a Christchurch river from a car wreck.

Police are looking to speak to a woman driver involved in a bike vs vehicle crash in Invercargill on Friday evening.

A male pedestrian has died after being hit by a logging truck pulling out of a gas station near Nelson.

A judge has labelled an Arrowtown road rage incident as an "appalling piece of behaviour" while a couple was assaulted while their kids were in the car.

One person has died after a crash near the Southland town of Mataura this evening.

A police spokeswoman said they were called to a two-car collision around 3.20pm.

Three people have been rescued from a car which went over a cliff south of Westport.

One person is a critical condition and two people have moderate to minor injuries following a serious crash south of Auckland.

A man who had been missing from his home in the Ohuka area inland from Wairoa for nearly a week was found this morning deceased inside his crashed utility.

A stolen car ploughed into a stationary police vehicle in the Waikato this afternoon as the officer laid road spikes to stop the fleeing driver.

A person has died in a serious crash between a campervan and car south of Thames this morning.

A man has died after being thrown from a 4x4 vehicle when it rolled, while an 11-year-old was also injured in separate incident after her motorcycle collided with a car.

SH1 north of Huntly has reopened after a motorcycle crash which left a man with life-threatening injuries.

The man was trapped in the wreckage and had to be cut free by firefighters.

A man has been critically injured after a motorbike crash in the Waikato this afternoon.

A crash on the Northwestern Motorway in central Auckland is causing major traffic delays.

An ambulance officer is being treated for moderate injuries after an ambulance hit ice and slid off the road on the Southern Motorway near Dunedin tonight.

A St John ambulance hit and injured three people outside Auckland Hospital.

A smash between two trucks left a lane blocked on Auckland's northern motorway this morning.

A mourning family is preparing for the possibility the man who pleaded guilty to causing a crash which killed Dunedin man Riley Baker may never serve prison time.

A person was flown to hospital in a critical condition after a two car crash in Taranaki earlier today. Police say the crash happened

More than 3700 police staff have asked for work-related trauma counselling in the last five years - with a senior association figure