The retired violin teacher of a Kiwi orchestral musician who survived Monday's triple fatality said she was the best pupil he ever taught.

A police serious crash investigator's report into a fatal accident on the Ladies Mile highway near Queenstown last year was criticised by two peer reviewers.

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 young woman killed in a fatal crash in Southland on Thursday has been named as 18-year-old Hayley Taylor.

A newborn baby was among the children who were thrown from van.

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.

An elderly pedestrian has been seriously injured after he was struck by a vehicle in South Auckland this morning.

A dump truck filled with soil has crashed backwards down a bank crashing into a parked car.

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.