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.

Teenager's headmaster says girl had recently found a "new lease on life" as police question other the occupants of the car.

A number of people are believed to be injured following a crash in Christchurch 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.

''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.

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.

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.

A Northland woman had a lucky escape when a furniture truck smashed through the wall of a house, stopping metres short of where she had been relaxing on a couch.

A motorcyclist has been seriously injured after a collision with a car in Auckland today.

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.