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Killer driver was double the legal limit
The man who crashed into and killed a TV3 staff member was two times over the legal blood alcohol limit, police allege.
The man who crashed into and killed a TV3 staff member was two times over the legal blood alcohol limit, police allege.
Charlotte Christie fears driving along the winding Gisborne-to-Wairoa road after writing off her car in a pile-up on a blind bend in which another motorist lost an arm.
A Herald analysis of Transport Agency data collected from 67 districts has revealed the deadliest parts of the country in terms of personal risk to road users.
An 83-year-old spent weeks in hospital after she was hit by a car and was then smacked with a bill for $1800 by the driver's insurance company.
The families of two fishermen who drowned at Lake Arapuni say they may never know how their loved ones came to grief.
The trial of a man over the death of Timaru businessman Allan Hubbard in a car crash has been adjourned until July 19.
The mother of a 12-year-old boy hit by a car as he walked home from school is being chased for damages by the driver's insurance company.
Allan Hubbard died in a head-on car crash caused by his elderly wife, not by the other driver accused of careless driving causing his death, a court has been told.
A mountain biker who plunged 9m to his death was not found until the next day after police decided to call off an area search, a coroner's finding has detailed.
For the first time since records began there has not been a single road death during the Queen's Birthday weekend, and police say it is a "very positive" result.
A survivor of a fire that gutted a Rotorua warehouse, killing teenage girl Mihinui Tamiana, tried to run back into the inferno to save her.
Police were tonight hoping for the first-ever Queen's Birthday weekend without a single road death.
A friend of a teen killed in a Rotorua fire claims the blaze was caused by a Molotov cocktail thrown into the building as partygoers slept.
A hunter has died after falling more than 10m onto rocks from a cable bridge near Hanmer Springs.
A fire that ripped through a factory, killing a schoolgirl, is believed to have been caused by a petrol generator bought just weeks ago by teenagers for parties there.
A motorcyclist has been blown off the road as strong winds hinder traffic in the South Island this morning.
Seven people have been injured in a three-car collision in Auckland this afternoon.
It was a messy start to the long weekend for thousands of Aucklanders yesterday when a car crash closed part of the Southern Motorway, just before the official Queen's Birthday holiday period began.
The mother of two teenage sisters killed in a Christmas Day 2011 crash near Tauranga says she has forgiven the man responsible for their deaths.
Five people have died in crashes on the country's roads already this week, as police brace for Queen's Birthday weekend - a notorious period for road fatalities.
The driver of a vehicle that crashed near Tauranga on Christmas Day 2011, killing two children, has been sentenced to seven years and six months in prison.
The parts of the country which become more dangerous to travel through during Queen's Birthday weekend have been revealed in a police bid to cut the holiday road toll.
Maori elders blessed the scene of a fatal car crash in South Wairarapa this morning where the body of the 17-year-old crash victim lay covered on the road.