A French tourist has admitted her role in a car crash that claimed the life of an unborn child on Sunday night.

A Kaitaia family were on their way to Gisborne to see if they could start a new life there when the car crashed into an oncoming truck, fatally injuring a 5-month-old baby.

A pensioner has appeared in court charged in connection with an accident in which a little boy was killed in a lawnmowing accident in Hastings.

The driver of the truck that collided with a school bus this morning has been taken to Tauranga Hospital.

A father frantically smashed car windows to get to his young children after the vehicle, which he had been following, crashed head-on with a truck.

The unborn child of a woman who was seriously injured in a car crash in Whangarei last night has died.

Call for course funding as toddlers' safety skills improve with nine-week programme.

Two teenagers are in a serious condition following a two-car head-on collision near Whangarei which also put two others in hospital.

A man injured in a police shooting that killed teen courier driver Halatau Naitoko is suing the Crown for compensation.

A 10-year-old who crashed her bike into a car has shown the first signs of recovery after a week in a coma.

After falling down a 10m deep sinkhole and landing on the remains of dead animals, Jill Clendon's first thoughts focused on whether she had broken any bones.

A woman trapped in a cave on the Takaka Hill near Nelson has been rescued. She had activated an emergency locator beacon after falling in part of the Ngarua Caves about 11am.

The most expensive claim filed with the Accident Compensation Corporation for an injury suffered around the home has cost taxpayers more than $1 million.

Particulates from the mystery object which killed a driver last year are now being studied by Otago University researchers after ESR tests weren't definitive.

A girl who crashed into a car as she rode her bike south of Auckland on Thursday is a "free and strong spirit" who is giving herself every chance of pulling through, her father says.

The mother of a young woman killed in an alleged drink-driving accident is calling for a zero tolerance approach towards drink driving.

A 10-year-old girl who was critically injured when she crashed into a car had been riding her bike up and down a friend's driveway.

Ah summer. Icecream, jandals, BBQs, long hot days at the beach....and hundreds of thousands of injury claims to ACC.

A 10-year-old girl was last night in a serious condition in hospital after being hit by a car while riding her bicycle on a rural road - the latest in a series of bad cycling accidents.

A smashed Aston Martin sports car has sparked the attention of car enthusiasts after it was put up for auction.