An 8-year-old girl struck on a pedestrian crossing is expected to be woken from her coma today.

A pregnant woman was trapped by a trailer on a rural property near Matamata yesterday.

The aunt of an eight-year-old struck by a car on a pedestrian crossing saw the accident unfold in her rear-view mirror just seconds after she passed the youngster.

Police have interviewed a woman who allegedly hit a young girl crossing a West Auckland road this morning.

A report is calling for tighter controls on children operating off-road vehicles following the deaths of 22 children at the controls since 2002.

A pilot who flew his homemade bi-plane into the sea in a deliberate attempt to take his own life was possibly inspired by the missing Malaysian Airline flight MH370, a coroner has found.

An 8-year-old boy remains in a critical condition in Waikato Hospital after a four-vehicle crash yesterday.

A 75-year-old woman was airlifted to hospital after she was injured by a cow earlier today.

At least 25 men and a digger were used to save a man whose 4WD flipped during a race meeting in Taranaki, trapping him under water.

As presidential bids go, it was hardly brilliantly timed. Sebastian Coe, laying out his manifesto for election as the most powerful man in athletics, calmly assured that his sport was not in crisis.

A coroner has drawn attention to the rear-vision cameras drivers can fit to their cars to reduce the risk of hitting people when reversing.

One person is dead after a car went through a fence on Alfriston Road, South Auckland.

An off-duty postie and an injured engineer held an elderly woman's head above water as she sat trapped in her car which had rolled down a bank and plunged into a stream.

A Chinese tourist who killed a friend in a rental car crash last week is “bereft” over the incident, a court has been told.

A Hong Kong couple escaped injury yesterday afternoon when their rental vehicle left the road and plunged about 50m down a bank on the Queenstown-Glenorchy Rd.

Police have defended their handling of a harbour bridge crash which closed three northbound lanes on Saturday, causing traffic jams that crippled the Auckland's transport system.

Danny and Lope Mafi were excited about moving out of their cramped South Auckland unit to a bigger house that would give their children more space to play.

Eighteen-month-old Vaimoana Mafi was hit by a car in South Auckland on Saturday. Her death comes less than three weeks after a West Auckland girl was killed in her driveway.

A professional bull rider has dislocated a hip after a nasty fall during a weekend rodeo.

An anguished man was seen screaming in horror as he carried an 18-month-old girl moments after she was accidentally run over in a South Auckland driveway.

Nick Wallbridge was left fighting for his life after a van smash that killed his teacher and classmate.

A father who died after falling from a flying fox at his Christmas party should not have been using the equipment, the company which operates the ride says.

A serious crash brought Auckland’s motorway network to its knees with motorists stuck in grid-locked traffic for up to four hours.

An 18-month-old girl was in a critical condition last night after being run over in a driveway.