The driver has escaped serious injury, but between 7000 and 8000 litres of milk might have been lost from the tanker in Matamata.

A tanker carrying 30,000 litres of carbon dioxide has crashed on State Highway 1 in Northland.

A boyracer who drove over a passenger ejected from another car after a horror 150km/h street race crash fled the scene, fearing he had "just killed someone".

Two trucks have collided near Matamata and police are warning of delays in the area.

Two people remain in serious condition following a three-vehicle crash in Taupo today.

A truck driver trapped in his cab for two hours miraculously survived after his milk tanker rolled, spilling thousands of litres of milk onto the road.

Three people were flown to hospital by helicopter after a car crash in the South Island last night.

A truck driver was trapped in his cab for two hours after rolling a milk tanker and sliding hundreds of metres down a highway this morning.

A seven-year-old boy was flown to hospital after a car crash on a Northland beach tonight.

It's understood firefighters were trying to extricate a person from the car.

Drivers have been warned to avoid State Highway One near Lake Karapiro as emergency services keep battling to clean up a chemical spill.

A man is dead after he failed to take a corner and crashed his car off a bridge into the Waikato River.

An inquest into the horrific deaths of seven tourists has heard an appeal to Kiwis to stop blaming foreign drivers for the carnage on our roads.

A coroner's inquest will start today following the deaths of seven tourists in two separate car crashes earlier this year.

Three young men were in a vehicle when it went off a road, rolled and flipped at least eight times, and ended up at the bottom of a ravine.

A man was killed when he thrown from a car that lost control and struck a bank near Taupo last night.

A truck driver rescued by other truckies after crashing into a fast-moving creek yesterday is recovering in hospital.

A person was critically injured when a car and truck collided in Otaua, southwest of Pukekohe, this morning.

A woman suffered serious injuries when she was struck by a vehicle on Karangahape Rd this morning.

A truck driver who escaped after crashing into a cold, fast-flowing creek is "a lucky boy", firefighters say.

One person has died in a collision between a car and a truck in the Waimana Gorge in the Bay of Plenty.

Police have named the man who died in a head-on collision on Sunday night near Dunsandel, Canterbury.

Emergency services and Muriwai locals have packed a car park at the west Auckland beach for a blessing ceremony at the scene of a quadruple fatal crash.

Emergency services were called out to Dunsandel after two cars crashed head on.

The girl had moderate injuries and was transported to Starship.

Police have confirmed that former All Black Ian Neill Uttley and his wife Christine "Tink" Lee Uttley were killed in a horror crash.

He thought they had stolen his leg and he was having none of it.

A power line is lying across a Northland road and traffic is down to one lane after a car smashed into a power pole this morning.

A tourist driver who lost control on an icy road and caused a crash that killed his front-seat passenger has today been forgiven by the dead woman's family.

Police said it appeared the elderly driver was surprised by an approaching vehicle and took evasive action while travelling towards Napier.