The driver of a car has died in a head-on collision with a truck and trailer unit in Bay of Plenty.

Kiwi ad agencies are pretty good at road safety messages - but Volkswagen may have trumped all our previous efforts with a brilliant ad campaign to fight mobile phone use in cars.

Stories of fatal crashes are told too often in New Zealand, and in the past six months there has been no shortage of examples.

Car rental companies and airlines could do more to advise tourists about driving in New Zealand, say a visiting American couple.

Four people have been injured in a collision on Dunedin's southern motorway, in which one of the vehicles may have been travelling in the wrong direction.

The first areas to get new digital speed cameras have been revealed by police. So where will the first 12 be located?

The deaths of Sally Summerfield, her daughter Ella and Ella's friend Abi Hone have left a "big, dark hole" in the tight-knit Sumner community, friends say.

The driver involved in a crash that killed 8-year-old Katikati girl Jasnoor Kaur has died.

A state highway was strewn with squash when a fully loaded truck and trailer unit carrying the vegetable overturned near Gisborne early this morning.

An unlicenced 16-year-old Dunedin youth is in hospital with a serious head injury after fleeing police in a high-speed pursuit.

Prime Minister John Key does not believe laws need to be tightened around tourists driving on New Zealand roads.

Two of this weekend's fatal crashes involved tourists.

A woman whose vehicle was hit head-on by another travelling the wrong way on Auckland's southern motorway on Friday morning has died.

Three people were killed when a car careered into spectators at a road rally.

Three people have been killed in a crash near Rakaia. Details of the crash were still sketchy but Ashburton Police senior sergeant Scott Banfield confirmed three people had been killed and two injured. The crash occurred at the intersection of Thompsons Track and Somerton Road shortly before 4pm Saturday.

Police and Fire Services were called at 9am today to a fuel tanker overturned at Templeton in Canterbury.

The wife of a motorcyclist killed by a driver who fell asleep at the wheel says the woman is a coward for running from the scene.

One person has died after a crash on the Coromandel Peninsula tonight — the first fatality of the Queen’s Birthday weekend holiday road toll period.

Alcohol is believed to have played a role in a head-on crash early this morning, when a woman drove 5km the wrong way on the Southern Motorway.

A boy critically injured in a Kaimai Ranges crash which killed a 9-year-old girl is set to be flown to Auckland's Starship Hospital later today.

A horror crash on Kaeo Hill has claimed the lives of two young Northland men overnight.

The learner driver in a crash that killed a young Mosgiel brother and sister is alleged to have previously offered illegal taxi rides via a controversial Facebook page.

A pensioner who lay dead in a car next to his trapped and injured wife for 15 hours has been named as Alan Henry Skittrup, 94, of Taradale.

One person has died and two others are injured after a stolen car crashed in the Hutt Valley.