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.

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.

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.

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.

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.