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.

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.

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.

Two people have been taken to hospital following a head-on collision outside Palmerston North this afternoon.

A coroner is calling for more safety measures at raceways after a 19-year-old motorcyclist died almost a month after he lost control at high speed and slammed helmet-first into a tyre barrier.

A smashed Aston Martin sports car, which was written off when a Chinese tourist crashed into a light pole last year, has been put up for auction.

A driver has had what emergency workers dubbed a miraculous escape after surviving a 40-metre plunge off a bridge in his vehicle, which landed upside-down in a river.

A West Coast family have been left devastated after losing the last of four sons at the weekend, with all of the young men being killed in tragic circumstances.

An innocent victim who survived a crash featured in a new road safety campaign says police have misled people and unfairly blamed a truck driver involved.

Glider pilot Trent Miller died doing what he loved - but he shouldn't have. Miller's glider crashed last week in circumstances still under probe by the Civil Aviation Authority.

A young man killed when a speeding car smashed into a house was the last of three brothers.

A teenage girl caught in a rip had stopped breathing by the time lifeguards plucked her, limp and grey, from the sea.

Clumsy Kiwis have fallen into gutters, crashed into trees and collided with other people while texting and walking.