One person is in Dunedin Hospital with serious injuries after two cars collided shortly before 10pm on Tuesday night.

A 33-year-old Dunedin psychology student appeared in court yesterday in relation to a wild car ride which left a trail of destruction in Mornington.

A three-car nose to tail collision on Auckland's Southern Motorway early this morning has seen one women taken to hospital with moderate injuries.

A woman in her 30s has been taken to hospital in a serious condition.

A road is closed in Christchurch after a pedestrian was struck by a car early this morning.

A local cyclist was killed in a collision with a light truck just north of Hokitika this morning.

Four cars were involved in a crash in which one car overturned outside Bucklands Beach Intermediate.

Chinese national Limin Ma has admitted causing the death of Dunedin man Riley Baker in a head-on crash when he crossed the centre line to view the ocean.

Chinese national Limin Ma has pleaded guilty over the crash which killed young Dunedin photographer Riley Baker.

A man is in a serious condition after a motorbike accident on a property in Kinleith.

One person is in critical condition after a two-vehicle crash south of the Bombay Hills early this morning.

Actor James Rolleston remains in a stable condition in a ward in Waikato Hospital after a horror car crash nearly a month ago.

Emergency services were called to the scene about 2.30pm, a Fire Service spokeswoman said.

A truck driver and his female passenger have been seriously injured after a two truck crash in Brookby, Auckland.

A car and truck collide trapping a person inside a vehicle in Remuera this morning.

A woman is injured after two cars collided in Dunedin.

A crash that blocked part of Auckland's busy central motorway is now clear.

A driver has been seriously injured after a freight truck rolled in Otorohanga early today.

Two people have been taken to hospital after colliding with a parked truck in Auckland. Meanwhile, a person was trapped after car rolled.

A tourist driver has had her appeal heard in the Napier High Court this morning after being jailed for killing a young motorcyclist earlier this year.

A young motorcyclist who police say died after colliding with a Chinese driver's vehicle in Otago on Saturday will donate organs to seven different people.

St John was required to send five ambulances to the scene.

The motorcyclist who died after a crash in East Otago was a talented and award-winning Dunedin photographer.

Two people have been freed after they were trapped in their vehicles in a crash at Timaru.

One person is dead after a car was discovered submerged in a culvert near Balfour, Southland.

A Tauranga man has been flown by rescue helicopter to Waikato Hospital, after his condition deteriorated rapidly following a motorcycle crash.

A person was trapped in a car for more than an hour after the vehicle crashed and rolled near Whakatane.

A pedestrian is in a critical condition after being hit by a car in Auckland this morning.

A truck driver suffered a likely medical event before his vehicle ploughed into two houses in South Auckland this morning.

A motorcyclist was critically injured in a crash with a car in Otago this afternoon.