Two tourists are critically injured after their vehicle and a logging truck collided on a busy rural Waikato highway today.

A pedestrian whose hip was broken after being run down by a cyclist riding on a footpath holds no malice but is pleased police decided to lay charges.

Utah couple Tammy and Richard Barnett were on “the trip of a lifetime to New Zealand” before yesterday’s fatal crash, family say.

A man has been charged after a pedestrian was hit by a cyclist as he stepped out of his doorway on to the street last month.

Pam McGarva was on her way to a quiz night when a car hit hers. Now eight months later, the woman driving the other car has been charged with her manslaughter.

It took nearly a week to find the plane that slammed into Mt Ruapehu in 1948, killing 13 people. Now the tragedy is to be relived as an episode in an upcoming TV series.

Rescuers have described the extensively damaged vehicle involved in a fatal road crash in Auckland this morning as unsurvivable.

Traffic is backed up in Wellington after a truck and trailer unit jack-knifed and crashed into the motorway medium barrier on State Highway 1 in the Ngauranga Gorge.

The hiker who died after falling 100m while tramping on the Milford Track on Friday has been named by police.

Accident Compensation Corporation figures reveal it paid out $202 million last year to treat sports injuries.

A 65-year-old Auckland man has died after falling at least 100m near Mackinnon Pass during a hike with a group in a national park.

A Papamoa teenager who died after becoming trapped in a car following a crash near Tauranga on Wednesday has been named by police.

Indiana Jones star recovering after crashing vintage plane into golf course. Kiwi actor Temuera Morrison says Ford is a "rugged" nice guy who'll be all right.

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.

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.

A woman lying unconscious on the road after a serious crash in the Kaimai Range yesterday was assisted by a doctor who, by chance, was in the traffic queue.

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.