An elderly woman has died after being hit by a van in Orewa this afternoon.

Auckland police have named the pedestrian killed after being hit by a truck in the central city last night.

An empty school bus and car collided on a corner trapping the driver of the car and blocking a Northland road this morning.

The mother of Mosgiel brother and sister Shannon and Danielle Kiriau has slammed the jail term handed to the pair's killer.

A reduced Queen's Birthday weekend road toll is still not good enough, say police.

The pedestrian who was hit by a truck on Fanshaw St in Auckland tonight has died.

A learner driver who killed two Mosgiel siblings - including his then girlfriend - has robbed a mother of seeing what her children would become, he was told this morning.

The country’s top road cop is lamenting the deaths of five people over the Queen’s Birthday holiday weekend, including a 5-year-old boy who died in hospital yesterday.

There were feral scenes outside a Dunedin courthouse as associates of a learner driver jailed on two counts of manslaughter took their anger out on the media.

One person died and eight were injured on the roads in a chaotic start to the holiday weekend.

A toddler critically injured when he ran into the path of a car on Auckland's Mt Eden Rd had his third birthday this week in a rehab centre.

A bus passenger and a driver of a car were injured in a serious crash in East Auckland on Saturday afternoon.

A woman died after trying to do a U-turn when a logging truck struck her vehicle outside of Te Puke this morning, police say.

Police are hoping New Zealand will avoid a repeat of last year's Queen's Birthday road horror and have promised to put the brakes on bad drivers.

As he lay trapped under an SUV, a cyclist critically injured in a car accident in central Auckland was asking people to lift the vehicle off him.

Emergency services assess the scene of a Delta truck, which came off McMeeking Rd, on the Otago Peninsula, and rolled yesterday.

Harman Singh says act of cradling young boy who had been hit by car helped him cope with father's death. "If he could see me right now, I think he would be proud."

A bend in a busy Auckland road with a history of crashes has claimed its fifth victim in just two days.

Two weeks ago, 11 people died on the roads in one weekend. Simon Plumb looks at the impact these tragedies have had on those who remain.

Four people have been injured, two of them seriously, in a car crash this afternoon.

One person has been seriously injured after a truck rolled in the Waikato this afternoon. Emergency services were called to the scene at the junction of Waverly Rd and Seddon Rd about 2pm.

Mororway traffic has ground to a halt following a crash involving two vehicles near Pokeno, south of Auckland, this afternoon.

A man has been charged with causing the death of a Winton truck driver injured at a Christmas party in the town last year.

A female in her late teens was the sole occupant of a car which left the road and crashed down a bank in the Coromandel this morning.

An unlicensed driver who killed his friend after crashing an unwarranted car during a high-speed police chase has been jailed for five years.

Several cars have slid off the road after a large diesel spill in south Auckland this morning.

The driver of a car that hit a 6-year-old boy on his way to school has given an emotional apology to the boy's family.

A 19-year-old woman driving a ute which skidded off the road and rolled into a paddock has told of the panicked minutes before she was rescued.

Two people have been taken to hospital following a crash involving a ute near Warkworth this morning.

A man killed when his car plummeted off a bridge and into a river northwest of Whangarei last week has been named by police.