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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.