Student in the Spain bus crash describes waking up with "everyone on the floor" and trying to crawl out with broken vertebrae.

A tree has fallen across State Highway 3 in the Waikato, blocking both sides of the road.

A St John spokesman said one person was taken to Auckland Hospital in serious condition.

The 42-year-old local man died at the scene in Tasman.

Senior Sergeant Denton Grimes said the accident happened on State Highway One at Halletts Bay, South of Taupo, at about 4pm.

A 21-year-old man is in a critical condition after a hit and run in Mangere Bridge.

Two people are in a serious condition after a major crash near Mosgiel.

A female pedestrian died at the scene after being struck by a vehicle in Wellington last night.

Drink-drive convictions have fallen by a third in five years but the percentage of repeat offenders has remained almost the same.

A 9-year-old child has been injured in a crash involving a car and truck north of Auckland this morning.

A family narrowly escaped serious harm when the car they had been driving through the Kaimai ranges exploded in flames minutes after they jumped out.

A motorcyclist captured the terrifying moment a car came around a bend on the wrong side of the road.

The bodies of two German teens killed when the car they were in was crushed by a giant beech tree in Fiordland have arrived home.

A man is in critical condition after the car he was in left the road and rolled in the Bay of Plenty this evening.

Police have released the name of a woman who died after a 4WD driven by her husband plunged 300m down a slope in a ''remote'' location near Omarama yesterday.

A cyclist suffered minor back injuries when they were hit by a car in Mt Eden this evening.

A boy was run over by a trailer with a car on it.

Hemi James Rapaea "is of no fixed abode" and was apparently picked up by the driver as he was hitchhiking from Palmerston North to Napier.

A logging truck has flipped on its side and is blocking a main road to Hamilton Airport.

The man, in his 60s, was cycling down a hill in when he swerved to avoid an oncoming truck and fell 15 meters down a bank in Onetangi, Waiheke.

A previous owner of Dunedin student bar the Bowling Green Hotel has died after a motorcycle crash in Bali.

WATCH: Raphael Giles tells the Herald about praying in the ambulance after the Patea truck crash that nobody else would die.

The funeral for an 18-month-old Hauraki toddler who died after being hit by vehicles outside his house was packed today.

Nearly 40 per cent of people who died in fatal crashes last year weren't wearing a seat belt.

A farm fence panel sliced through the driver's side door of a car during a crash which killed a young driver.

A motorcyclist has been seriously injured in a collision with a car in Christchurch.

The Chinese community has rallied around the family of a man who was killed by a drink driver after discovering the culprit was one of their own.