A truck driver's come away from a crash in Counties Manukau unscathed.

A 23-year-old man from North Canterbury is in a critical condition after being thrown from his vehicle when it crashed into a pole. The accident happened in Harwarden, near Lake Sumner Forest Park, just after midnight on Thursday.

A cycling accident robbed scientist Robbie Price of his memories, but some of those precious memories are returning after eight months in a fog.

Three men have been taken to hospital after a car rolled into the sea in Nelson.

Fatal accidents, breakdowns and huge traffic backlogs have plagued the first four days of the official Christmas road toll period.

The horrific Boxing Day death of a 16-year-old boy from South Otago is the year's seventh quad bike fatality.

Two cars have been involved in a serious crash south of Gisborne.

A newborn baby was taken to hospital after a head-on crash. Firefighters had to winch the family's car off a road barrier and wedge the passenger door open to free her.

A 16-year-old boy has died following a motorbike crash in Southland last night.

An MP has demanded ACC explain why it has more than halved overseas care payments to a British woman whose daughter was left severely disabled after a New Zealand medical misadventure.

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.

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.

Seven months ago their lives were a happy chaos as they raised energetic and vibrant triplets Lillie, Jackson and Willsher.

A man watched in horror as his brother drowned in stormy surf at Whiritoa beach on the Coromandel Peninsula on Christmas Eve.

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.