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 young couple are in hospital after a horrific car accident that killed their unborn baby and left the mother fighting for her life.

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.

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.

A spate of near-collisions between motorists and trains at level crossings have prompted a warning to drivers.

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.

The first officer on the scene of a crash, which police tried to blame on a truck driver for using his mobile phone, says there was never any suggestion the truckie was at fault.