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.

The scene of a serious crash on Auckland’s Harbour Bridge has been cleared and the northbound lanes reopened.

An investigation is under way into the death of a man at a fun park in Northland last night.

Two people are seriously injured after their car crashed through a barrier and down a cliff in Kerikeri early this morning.

A motorcyclist has died after a collision with a digger in Tauranga overnight.

A man in his 50s died after falling 10m from a flying fox at a Northland fun park today. St John territory manager Mark Going said an ambulance from Whangarei responded to a call in Maungakaramea at about 5.45pm.

A man is dead and another person is in hospital following a crash on Parewanui Rd in Bulls.

A pregnant woman has been flown to hospital after being hit by a car near Nelson.

Another round in the stoush between the family of deceased liquor magnate Michael Erceg is being argued in the High Court today.

An Otago man on a suspended licence continued driving a car as it fell apart around him, only stopping when the engine finally gave up.

The parents of a little girl who died after being struck by a car in her West Auckland driveway have paid tribute to their princess. 'She was amazing.'

A van carrying seven occupants collided head on with a fully laden logging truck in Kaingaroa this morning.

A car driven by tourists was seen on the wrong side of the road shortly before it crashed on the West Coast of the South Island yesterday, killing one.

Head and facial injuries in New Zealand cricket are increasingly rare but damage to the neck and vertebrae at the back of the head - the area where Australian batsman Phillip Hughes was fatally....

A motorcyclist who died after he left the road and crashed into a tree on Banks Peninsula at the weekend has been named by police.

Volunteering circles in Wanaka have been left devastated by the death of Maureen "Mo" Schofield, who slipped and fell 40m while walking the Fern Burn Track on Monday.

Friends and family have paid tribute to the man killed in a tractor accident near Waikouaiti earlier this week as a "hell of a good guy".

The Australian teenager critically injured in a crash which killed two people near Rotorua is awake and talking to his parents, while his classmates mourn the loss of a fellow student and....

The Government has been accused of failing to do enough to prevent road crashes involving tourists, following the sentencing of a man who fell asleep at the wheel.

A 13-year old exchange student who was struck by a car after getting off the school bus yesterday remains in a critical condition today.

Police have named the 24-year-old man killed when he was thrown from the cab of a tractor that rolled north of Dunedin.

A tourist driver who arrived from Australia early in the morning and hired a rental car, fell asleep at the wheel - causing a head-on crash that killed his mother.