A driver is dead after a fatal crash at Hampton Downs during a vintage car event today.

A motorcycle rider has died in a crash with a truck in Waikato today.

Two students suffered facial burns yesterday when a gas oven at AUT's cooking school exploded.

At least one young Kiwi motorist will die on a New Zealand road this week.

If it was harder for young people to get a driver's licence, families like the Roberts would not have to live every day in anguish.

A principal says her college will keep promoting safety messages to young people after seven teenagers were involved in a serious crash.

Neurologists say seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher is unlikely to make a full recovery from a devastating head injury.

It was an exhausting 18-hour journey: First their train was involved in a fatal collision with a truck, then it was delayed by a fire. But passengers coped 'amazingly'.

Two men suffered broken bones when a small plane crashed into a paddock north of Christchurch yesterday.

A truck driver who died after his vehicle collided with a train had earlier told a colleague how he was looking forward to playing with his children at the end of the day.

Recently promoted Luke MacKenzie was not supposed to be on the early morning shift at Air NZ and was driving to work to cover for a colleague who had called in sick.

An advertisement in which police falsely accused a truck driver of causing a crash is unlikely to cause widespread offence, the ASA rules.

The wife of a man who fell to his death at a high-ropes adventure course believes regulation of the outdoor adventure industry may be needed.

It was every parent's worst nightmare; news their child has died while travelling on the other side of the world, their rented campervan swept off the road during a powerful storm.

A motorcyclist is appalled a heartless thief stole her bike and rode off as she lay badly injured on the road after crashing into a 4WD.

Stewart and Sonja Goodsir were on the water heading home after a day's fishing when they noticed the smoke.

The company responsible for a high ropes course where an Auckland man died has been fined $24,500 and ordered to pay the man's family $80,000 reparation.

A young Canadian couple were killed when their campervan was swept off the road by the second landslide to hit the road they were on, an inquest has ruled.

One person has died tonight after a car crash just south of Tokoroa on State Highway 1.

A man has died after falling nine metres down a river bank while climbing a swing rope near Palmerston North tonight.

Two teenagers who pleaded guilty to manslaughter following the death of their friend in an illegal west Auckland street race will not go to jail.