A coroner has been told that the occupants of a car that smashed into a truck about 150kmh in Hawkes Bay in January, resulting in four deaths, were "wasted".
Four people, including two American tourists, were taken to hospital after a double-cab utility crashed on State Highway 8 south of Omarama about 3pm yesterday.
The man who died when the car he was driving crashed into the Manakaiua River near Fox Glacier on Friday evening was an award-winning New Zealand-born mathematician.
One man is in hospital with serious head injuries and two other people have moderate injuries after the car they were travelling in went over a cliff between Queenstown and Cromwell this morning.
A teenager has been killed and another seriously injured when the car they were travelling in crashed into a pole in north Canterbury early this morning.