Car crashes

A 35-year-old man died at the scene of a car crash in Dunedin on Saturday night.

Emergency staff work to free the female driver of a Mitsubishi Mirage that rolled in Pitt St, between Queen and Elder Sts, City Rise, about 3.30pm yesterday.

Emergency services attend a crash between a small truck and station wagon at the corner of Burkes Dr and SH88 just before noon yesterday.

A 20-year-old former Otago Girls High School student has admitted causing the death of her best friend in a road crash as they drove to New Zealand Fashion Week.

Four Dunedin people had a lucky escape from serious injury in a spectacular car crash near Waikouaiti yesterday.

Several people were injured when a truck ploughed into the Porsche dealership, writing off several luxury cars, in Auckland yesterday. Emergency services were called to the crash involving at least seven vehicles in Great South Rd, Newmarket, about 11.30am.

A teenage texter escaped through his car's sunroof yesterday after the vehicle left the road and became wedged between a tree and a concrete embankment.

It was a horror weekend on New Zealand roads. Five people were killed in the North Island and two separate car crashes in Central Otago left two people seriously injured.

A commercial bus driver who drove from Queenstown to Te Anau, before a serious bus crash on Thursday, says the road was not gritted, although it was icing over.

Heavy frosts and ice continue to cause havoc on South Otago roads, there being more than 15 crashes in the area since Monday, although most drivers have escaped major injuries.

Firefighters work to clear the corner of lower Stuart and Cumberland Sts, in Dunedin, after a car crashed into traffic lights at 5.20pm yesterday amidst Friday rush-hour traffic.

A man who lost control of his car on black ice early yesterday, sending the car skidding 70m before it hit a power pole, was in a stable condition in Dunedin Hospital's intensive care unit with serious head injuries last night.