A Hastings council tractor driver has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the death a 4-year-old boy in a horrific mowing accident last year.

A 34-year-old Hawea man has died after the car he was driving flipped several times on Cemetery Road, Hawea Flat.

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 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 quad bike rider has fled after leading police on a pursuit through the city this morning.

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.

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.

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 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.

A 19-year-old man is in a critical condition after being hit by a car near Gore last night.

A contractor who plunged 40m down the same cliff where his uncle fell to his death has spoken of his miraculous survival.

Cooking oil left burning on stoves has caused serious burns to an elderly lady and left a young family homeless in two separate house fires in Whangarei over the weekend.

A spooked horse may have contributed to the death of a woman whose body was found in a paddock on the outskirts of Hastings.

The quick response and heroic actions of a group of Bureta women helped save a 58-year-old Tauranga woman whose car plunged over a two-storey bank.

A 58-year-old woman suffered a broken leg when her car left the road in Tauranga, smashing through a fence and falling several metres over a bank into a property below.

A man killed in the Carterton balloon crash had been relishing life after receiving news he was clear of cancer only weeks before the fatal trip, an inquest has been told.