We demand and expect our transport systems to to get us where we want, when we want to be there, and as fast as possible. We are, however, human beings.

A 16-year-old is in critical condition in hospital after a car left the road and rolled down a bank on Christmas morning.

The grieving family of a toddler killed in a driveway runover on Christmas Eve are preparing for his burial tomorrow.

Heavy lifting cranes are on their way to the scene of a milk tanker crash that is blocking State Highway 3 in the lower North Island.

A young man has been killed following a serious car crash in Southland this morning.

You could forgive Shiu Narayan if the word "insurance" tasted sour in his mouth this morning.

A woman on a suspended driver's licence allegedly fled the scene of a crash which killed a 71-year-old woman who was travelling with her family on Christmas Day.

The Christmas Eve death of a toddler in a tragic driveway accident has left a tiny lakeside village reeling.

Kim Dotcom and a spate of natural disasters have been among the most popular topics with New Zealand Herald readers this year.

A three-year-old boy has died after being hit by a car in the driveway of a property near Taupo.

No health and safety charges will be laid over a fatal car accident at a Rimu goldmine in August, in which a Hokitika boy died.

A coroner has recommended that boaties should be warned about the dangers of smoking cannabis.

Staff at TV3 are in grief over the loss of a popular colleague and young mother, who was killed in a car crash that also seriously injured her two young daughters.

A toddler swallowed 20 small but super-strong toy magnets - then spent seven weeks in pain as they gripped each other and eventually punctured his bowel.

A Bay of Plenty mother says parents need to be aware of potential danger associated with alloy wheels after her 16-month-old daughter suffered serious burns.

Early on the morning of May 12, 8-year-old Michelle O'Brien showed humanity, kindness, and selfless bravery when faced with the unthinkable.

Four farmhands who died in a horrific early morning crash were not wearing seatbelts and three were thrown from the "unsafe" vehicle when its roof was torn off.

A grandmother who pulled a young family from a crashed car moments before it burst into flames says she was "in the right place at the right time".

Once again, it will be easier to get a speeding ticket this Christmas.

The parents of 2-year-old triplets who died in a Doha mall fire will be surrounded by family as they face their first Christmas without their "three little monkeys".

One person has been taken to hospital following a crash between a car and a truck in Carterton this morning.

A Northland family have a quick-thinking passer-by to thank for saving their lives after a bizarre crash described by a policeman as the luckiest escape he has seen.

Sprinklers in a Doha mall could have stopped the smoke that claimed the lives of 19 people including young New Zealand triplets - if they were working.

Statistically, Dunedin is New Zealand's worst city for motor vehicle crashes and casualties - but Palmerston North, Hamilton and Napier aren't far behind.

A cyclist who was almost killed when she and her husband were hit by a vehicle on a rural Taupo road says she no longer has any anger towards the driver.