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.

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.

A truck driver involved in a crash that killed three members of a American family and critically injured another is receiving counselling.

A paraglider in his 50s spent the night trapped on a cliff face until he was rescued by the Westpac Rescue Helicopter yesterday.

Charges have been laid in relation to a pyrotechnic display at an All Blacks test at Eden Park last year that injured spectators.

The parents of a baby girl left in a campervan on a hot day said they were "regularly checking on their child".

A family in the Australian state of Victoria are 'devastated' after a mother accidentally left her 22-month-old in a car in the summer heat.

The US family killed in logging truck crash on Tuesday had come to New Zealand to help 20-year-old daughter settle into her new home.

Two life-long friends who shared a "perfect" bond had been on the summer road-trip of their lives before they were killed in a crash.

The death of two tourists whose campervan was swept away in a slip was the result of a "tragic coming together of a number of events", a coroner has found.

An Auckland landlord has been fined over an unsafe deck which collapsed during an 80th birthday party, injuring five people.

Three people killed in a collision with a logging truck yesterday have been confirmed as American citizens, police say.

One person has died following a collision between a rental van and a 4-wheel-drive in Christchurch this morning.

A motorcyclist has been left shaken after colliding with a car on Auckland's Eden Terrace this morning.

Three people who died in a collision with a logging truck in south Waikato yesterday were not believed to have been wearing seatbelts at the time.

Two women who died in a head-on collision in Waikato this morning were a New Zealander and an Australian, police have confirmed.

Robin Kearns writes: Whose city is this? Does Auckland belong only to adults and motorists? Perhaps we all need to slow down and reconsider our priorities.

As Penny Taniela ran down the street towards her unconscious daughter she didn't know what to think or expect.

A car has bowled over the front of a Chinese takeaway shop on Auckland’s North Shore this evening.