
One dead in head-on crash
One motocross rider has died after colliding head-on at speed with another rider on a dark shingle road, after they had left a party in North Canterbury last night.
One motocross rider has died after colliding head-on at speed with another rider on a dark shingle road, after they had left a party in North Canterbury last night.
Whenever I see a white cross on the side of the road while I'm driving, it's a powerful reminder to take care.
Latu Paasi wiped away tears as she watched the unveiling of her husband and son's headstone yesterday - the first anniversary of their death in a boating tragedy.
The Accident Compensation Corporation's Earners and Work Accounts are now fully funded ACC Minister Judith Collins has told National Party members at their Northern Regional Conference today.
A woman was trapped when the car she was in left the road and crashed into some trees in Hamilton this morning.
A man has been taken to hospital after a collision between a ferry and a water taxi near Princes Wharf at Auckland's waterfront.
A car has crashed through the front door of a petrol station on Auckland's North Shore.
A rail worker who failed to make sure two of his co-workers were off the track before a passenger train passed by, nearly hitting them, was a regular cannabis user, an investigation has found.
A police campaign to reduce the number of people killed in truck accidents was only a few hours old when a "shocking" head-on collision killed a log-truck driver.
A logging truck driver was killed and another seriously injured when their rigs collided head-on inland from Tolaga Bay on the East Coast this afternoon.
Out on an early morning run, Jane Patterson was first on the scene when a car plunged into Auckland's Waitemata Harbour on March 13.
An elderly driver plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a parade in the US, injuring over fifty people.
Two people have been hospitalised after their rally car lost control between Riwaka and Sandy Bay.
An army trainee died when a vehicle he was travelling in crashed with an "almighty bang" into a power pole near Dargaville on Friday night.
A man was killed and four others injured, one critically, when a car hit a power pole in Northland last night.
A Filipino crewman working aboard a logging ship at Port of Tauranga suffered serious lacerations this morning after a crane-operated winch wire struck him across his chest and neck.
A 53-year-old Napier construction worker was killed in a freak workplace accident after being struck by a large steel beam.
A 72-year-old suffered serious injuries when his van plunged 150 metres down a bank in Hawkes Bay.
A seriously injured driver lay trapped in his crashed truck across railway lines for more than an hour in Waikato last night.
A man is in hospital after his light truck crashed through a bridge barrier and tumbled four metres onto a stream bank in the Hawkes Bay.
Police need to be able to pursue drivers "otherwise we turn the roads over to the criminals," says New Zealand Police Association vice-president Stuart Mills.
Two people died in a four-car crash in Northland yesterday afternoon during a weekend of road carnage that claimed eight lives.
Emily Mott woke up feeling dizzy days after falling off a quad bike and hitting her head on a rock while working on a dairy farm near Dannevirke.