A tourist has been found dead on a Hamilton road, but police say there was no foul play involved.

A young man was airlifted to hospital after the tractor he was driving tumbled down a bank and trapped him.

A teenager who died when a car he was travelling in crashed down a steep bank has today been named by police.

One person is dead following an accident on a work site in Port Waikato this morning.

Police have released the name of two men who died after separate crashes in the Waikato last week.

A Lyttelton Port worker's been hospitalised after falling several metres on a ship.

A man has been charged with dangerous driving after a dramatic crash on an Auckland motorway this year.

A man has been charged with dangerous driving following a dramatic crash on the Auckland motorway last month.

Speedway driver Craig Marsh slammed head on into metal pole an miraculously survives: "OK guys. I'm alive. Broken back but still kicking."

Four firefighters have been taken to hospital as a precaution after a shipping container containing insect repellent caught fire in west Auckland this afternoon.

A tourist driver has been punched in the face after being pulled over by another motorist, as tension over foreign drivers and crashes escalates.

A Frenchman who moved to NZ to "make his dream come true" swerved to avoid hitting a portable toilet that had fallen from a truck before colliding head-on with another truck.

A Japanese tourist was critically injured when his rental car and a truck collided near Christchurch today.

A young driver who died in a head-on collision with a truck was swerving to avoid a portable toilet which fell from another passing truck and trailer.

Four people have had a lucky escape after their rental car crashed 20m down a bank and ended up submerged in a West Coast river.

Four people have been injured in a collision between a logging truck and a car this morning.

The father of a girl killed in a crash caused by a Dutch businessman says safety messages are not getting through to tourist drivers.

Advertising material covering the window of a Christchurch driver may have limited his visibility when his truck a cyclist in April last year.

A British tourist hopes his near-death experience at the hands of a foreign driver prevents a repeat of the crash that killed a 5-year-old Oamaru girl.

It's every firefighting parent's worst nightmare: finding your child critically injured in a car accident.

A fourth American has died after three members of his family were killed in a fatal collision with a truck in Waikato last week.

''Everyone just ran and glass showered down on to the road.'' Exploding glass caused a shower of fragments onto Dunedin's main street yesterday.

Hastings District Council finally pleads guilty over the death of a four-year-old boy who was run over by a tractor mower.

A driver allegedly slammed another car off the road during a suspected road-rage incident yesterday, sending it careering into a bus shelter, seriously injuring a waiting teenager.

The Wellington Monster Slide event was yesterday postponed after organisers found the slide's proposed waterfront set-up was inadequate.