A German tourist driver involved in a head-on collision on the yesterday has been charged with careless driving causing injury.

Moves to prevent crashes involving foreign drivers have been encouraging but need to go further, say two boys who lost their father in such an accident.

One person has died in a crash in south Auckland this morning.

A tourist allegedly driving on the wrong side of the road hit another car head-on on the State Highway 6 Coast Road between Greymouth and Westport this morning.

A new traffic light at a Dunedin intersection - officially turned on just last month - was knocked over yesterday.

A man has been rescued after being "severely trapped" after crashing into a power pole in Auckland this evening.

A woman suffered serious head injuries in a collision between a car and a truck today on State Highway 1.

A teenager is seriously injured following a crash involving a car and a skateboard in west Auckland overnight.

A truck driver has been critically injured following a crash in the central North Island overnight.

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.

A woman who crashed into three cars and a traffic light while driving drunk had sold her home to pay for the $25,000 accident damage.

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.

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.