An innocent motorist who died after a wrong-way motorway crash was a keen dancer who participated overseas.

A Dutch tourist has been charged after a crash in Canterbury that killed a mother and two young girls.

Three people have been killed in a crash near Rakaia. Details of the crash were still sketchy but Ashburton Police senior sergeant Scott Banfield confirmed three people had been killed and two injured. The crash occurred at the intersection of Thompsons Track and Somerton Road shortly before 4pm Saturday.

Three people have been killed in a crash near Rakaia.

Police and Fire Services were called at 9am today to a fuel tanker overturned at Templeton in Canterbury.

The wife of a motorcyclist killed by a driver who fell asleep at the wheel says the woman is a coward for running from the scene.

The learner driver in a crash that killed a young Mosgiel brother and sister is alleged to have previously offered illegal taxi rides via a controversial Facebook page.

The family of a young boy killed on his way to a park after being struck by a car are upset Housing NZ dug up their front lawn, leaving their children without anywhere safe to play.

What possesses a mother to travel in a car with an unrestrained baby on her lap?

Every day, the parents of motorcyclist Brody Sutherland park their son's red Ducati metres from where he died on a busy East Auckland road - hoping a passing motorist will come forward with crucial information.

A four-year-old Auckland boy has died after being struck by a passing vehicle outside his home earlier today.

An elderly man has died after falling down a lift shaft at a home in East Auckland.

A man was trapped in his crushed vehicle about 200m down a steep bank for about three hours before he was spotted, emergency services say.

Residents of an Auckland street ran out to help two young girls who were hit by a teenage driver as they walked home from school.

A truck driver’s head was held above water for by a passer by after his vehicle slid off a bridge into the Keyburn river in Central Otago.

A massive slip near Otira closed the Arthur's Pass highway just after midday today.

A woman has been spotted breastfeeding an unrestrained baby in a moving car, just one day after another unrestrained infant died from injuries suffered in a crash.

Motorists with newer, safer cars may see their annual licence costs slashed by as much as $163 a year.

The modern approach to road safety is about creating safer drivers, safer roads, safer speeds and safer vehicles, writes Mike Noon. We have to improve in all of these areas, not just one.

The death of an unrestrained 12-week-old baby girl who was thrown from her mother's lap in a crash could've been avoided by a carseat - found in the car's boot.

A baby who was unrestrained on his mother’s lap when the car they were travelling in hit a bank yesterday has died.

An unrestrained baby sitting on its mother's lap was thrown into the back of the car and is now fighting for its life.

The names of a brother and sister killed when an unroadworthy car crashed at high speed in Dunedin on Saturday night have been released.

The cost of car relicensing could fall about 40 per cent by next July - a drop the Automobile Association expects will result in fewer cash-strapped motorists flouting the law.

The two people killed when an unroadworthy car crashed at high speed in Dunedin last night were brother and sister, police say.