An elderly woman was metres from her home when she was struck by a car last night.

A man who allegedly hit a woman in the rental car he was driving, then fled the scene, has been named.

The man killed in a head-on collision on a Coromandel highway yesterday has been named by police.

A French tourist who backed her rental car over a cliff above Lake Wanaka early yesterday afternoon had a lucky escape from serious injury.

A seriously injured driver was trapped in his vehicle after it and an empty fuel tanker collided in Invercargill today.

It felt like half of Michele Foster-Chambers' body was crushed when she was hit by a car on an Auckland street.

The number of people killed on NZ roads so far this year is 20 per cent higher than at the same time last year, with a "spike" in the number of passengers killed.

A man killed when he was trapped under a heavy vehicle at a Bay of Plenty quarry today was a 24-year-old from Tauranga, police say.

The crash took place on the Northern Motorway at Dairy Flat around 4.30am.

The two truck collision took place on State Highway 1 near the intersection of Jordan Valley Rd, Hikurangi, around 6.45am.

The Chinese tourist responsible for the death of Oamaru 5-year-old Ruby Jay Marris has been told to prepare himself for jail.

Do I wear a lifejacket? Never, writes Bob Jones. It's part of the pleasure, zipping about solely in shorts and a hat but mollycoddling know-alls abound.

A young man shot in the back in a hunting accident was luckily bending down emptying stones from his boots when his mate fired the bullet.

A man was rushed to hospital in serious condition this afternoon after a truck and car collided in Auckland.

Ten fire trucks are at the scene of a crash north of Wellington this evening after a car hit a gas main.

An Auckland couple who survived a serious crash in Canterbury are distraught over the death of their 4-year-old daughter.

The two women who died in a fatal road smash south of Auckland on Saturday morning have been named.

Crowds of out-of-control partygoers were stunned into silence when an 18-year-old's car plunged over the edge of a bank in Oropi as he fled police on Friday night.

A toddler who was badly burned by a pot of hot coffee last year has been reunited with the paramedics who attended to him.

A child is dead and and five others are seriously injured - two critically - following a crash between two vehicles in Canterbury today.

Traffic was at a standstill this evening on Auckland's northwestern motorway following a four-car crash.

An elderly man has been seriously injured after his mobility scooter and a truck collided in Mosgiel today.

Government safety officials are investigating the death of a 14-year-old boy who died in a quad bike accident on a farm near Kaikohe.

A road-safety advocate says the Government is not doing enough to prevent tourist crashes.

The boat of two fishermen missing from Port Waikato since Monday may never be recovered, police say.

John Beckenridge took his 11-year-old stepson camping for a week before he appears to have taken their lives by driving at high speed off a Southland cliff.

Two men killed on Bay of Plenty roads this week have been named by police.

Two men critically injured in a forestry accident had been hauling a big log up a deep gully before it suddenly turned on them, striking one man in the head.

John Beckenridge’s vehicle appears to have been driven at “high speed” off a Southland cliff, which could indicate a grim outcome for the missing pair.