A scene examination at the site of a helicopter crash near Queenstown, which killed two men and led to the country’s largest aircraft grounding, will wrap up tomorrow.

A woman has been seriously injured after two cars collided and crashed in to a bus stop in the Auckland suburb of Avondale this afternoon.

The 5-year-old Oamaru girl killed in a crash in North Otago on Saturday has been named by police.

A Napier motorcycle rider who suffered serious head injuries in a crash on Friday afternoon in the Wharerata Hills south of Gisborne has died of his injuries.

Government inaction has been blamed for "driving the tourist road toll" up, following two crashes involving Chinese visitors over the weekend.

Aviation businesses face financial losses after the grounding of the helicopter model involved in a fatal crash last week.

A 32-year-old Chinese tourist will appear in court today after a 5-year-old Oamaru girl was killed in a North Otago crash on Saturday afternoon.

A Chinese man has been charged with dangerous driving causing death after a crash in North Otago claimed the life of a 5-year-old Oamaru girl yesterday.

The wife of Steve Combe, the Wanaka pilot killed in a helicopter crash, says her husband was 'larger than life'.

A five-year-old girl died in a fatal crash in North Otago last night.

Screaming children were sent flying in front of horrified parents after a giant inflatable slide collapsed at the Masterton A&P show.

Two people have been injured in a head-on collision on a country road.

A German man seriously injured in a crash that claimed the life of his wife and daughter has spoken for the first time about the tragedy.

A car was left wedged in the lounge of a house in Taylorville after a crash just after midnight this morning.

A 60-year-old female tramper has been rescued this morning after injuring herself while trekking in the Nelson area.

A truck driver involved in a crash that killed three members of a American family and critically injured another is receiving counselling.

A paraglider in his 50s spent the night trapped on a cliff face until he was rescued by the Westpac Rescue Helicopter yesterday.

A family in the Australian state of Victoria are 'devastated' after a mother accidentally left her 22-month-old in a car in the summer heat.

The US family killed in logging truck crash on Tuesday had come to New Zealand to help 20-year-old daughter settle into her new home.

The road toll continued to rise yesterday with three more deaths in a grim week on New Zealand roads.

Two life-long friends who shared a "perfect" bond had been on the summer road-trip of their lives before they were killed in a crash.

The death of two tourists whose campervan was swept away in a slip was the result of a "tragic coming together of a number of events", a coroner has found.

An Auckland landlord has been fined over an unsafe deck which collapsed during an 80th birthday party, injuring five people.

Three people killed in a collision with a logging truck yesterday have been confirmed as American citizens, police say.

One person has died following a collision between a rental van and a 4-wheel-drive in Christchurch this morning.

A motorcyclist has been left shaken after colliding with a car on Auckland's Eden Terrace this morning.

Three people who died in a collision with a logging truck in south Waikato yesterday were not believed to have been wearing seatbelts at the time.

Two women who died in a head-on collision in Waikato this morning were a New Zealander and an Australian, police have confirmed.