An 89-year-old woman who survived the impact of a car crash, spent 15 horrific hours trapped and injured beside her husband's body.

An elderly woman lay trapped and badly injured overnight next to her dead husband after their car left a driveway and rolled up to 30 metres down a steep bank.

Phoenix Ruddell keeps himself occupied with cartoons and smartphone apps while his little sister Faith works on her colouring-in book.

A motorcyclist has been taken to hospital with critical injuries after colliding with a car north of Auckland.

A 34-year-old Hawea man has died after the car he was driving flipped several times on Cemetery Road, Hawea Flat.

A man was trapped in his crushed vehicle about 200m down a steep bank for about three hours before he was spotted, emergency services say.

Residents of an Auckland street ran out to help two young girls who were hit by a teenage driver as they walked home from school.

A truck driver’s head was held above water for by a passer by after his vehicle slid off a bridge into the Keyburn river in Central Otago.

New Zealand has been praised at a global forum for slashing its road toll last year, after the ignomy of edging up an international hit parade of carnage in 2012.

Two people were killed this afternoon when a car was struck by a train on a rail crossing at Rotokohu, east of Reefton.

A woman has died after being struck by a reversing car whose driver wedged her jandal between the brake and accelerator, police say.

Two children seriously injured in a Bay of Plenty crash that killed their mother will today be released from Starship Hospital and will soon be heading home.

A serious crash near Auckland International Airport has caused major traffic delays during the Monday rush hour this morning.

The two people killed when an unroadworthy car crashed at high speed in Dunedin last night were brother and sister, police say.

A 19-year-old man is in a critical condition after being hit by a car near Gore last night.

The quick response and heroic actions of a group of Bureta women helped save a 58-year-old Tauranga woman whose car plunged over a two-storey bank.

The driver pictured here was travelling on a motorway, with one hand cupping a phone to his ear and the other holding a cigarette.

State Highway 1 near Warkworth will be closed from 7.30pm to remove wreckage of a large truck that crashed earlier today south of Pohuehue.

The passenger who walked away from a fatal Ferrari crash on Sunday had been looking forward to a ride in his "dream car".

The passenger who walked away unscathed from a fatal Ferrari crash on Sunday had been looking forward to a ride in his "dream car''.

A 61-year-old Napier car enthusiast, husband and father, killed when his Ferrari crashed, built a career in swimming pools, including several at Sea World.