A number of quad bike accidents ending in death and injury over the holiday period has renewed calls for users to take greater care when using the vehicles.

Traffic is backed up on Auckland’s Northwestern motorway after a collision between a truck and a car.

An out-of-control car came close to demolishing one of Northland's oldest hotels when it skittled all but two of the pillars holding up its first floor verandah.

From time to time, there is an eruption of concern about the dangers posed by quad bikes.

New Zealand's most treacherous beach, Hot Water Beach, is already on its way to racking up another high rescue count in 2013.

Ross Mulholland is a "model patient" who has done everything possible to give the reattached digits the best chances of recovery.

Wellington police have released the name of the cyclist who was killed when he was struck by a car on Ohariu Valley Road yesterday.

Two Australian climbers were injured on Aoraki/Mt Cook overnight when they were hit by ice and fell 200m.

Debbie Armstrong is still haunted by the memory of watching her husband die, but she has managed to carry on.

The Coastguard is warning boaties to check conditions after gusting winds caused a spate of accidents on the Hauraki Gulf yesterday. Many of the incidents involved smaller boats which were unable to handle high winds and rough seas.

Sympathy has turned to anger as people in Waimarama try to understand the actions of four adults who crashed a quad bike, critically injuring a "beautiful little girl" late on Wednesday night.

A doctor on duty when a group of injured people were brought in after a quad bike crash says innocent people will continue to be hurt if there is not a change in attitudes towards alcohol.

Parents of children killed in the Doha Mall fire last year say they have been attacked by defence lawyers in a hearing to determine responsibility for the 19 deaths.

A little girl was fighting for her life in the Starship last night as police investigated whether four adults riding with her on a quad bike that crashed should be charged.

Police are deciding whether charges should be laid against the four drunk adults who took a 6-year-old girl on a quad bike that crashed and left her injured.

Last year New Zealand recorded its second lowest road toll in 50 years, with the deaths of young people significantly stemmed, police say.

The road toll for the year stands at 318 - more than 40 higher than the 2011 tally.

A flash flood which unleashed a "wave of water'' claimed the life of a Greytown man who won an Oscar for his work on LotR.

Two people were taken to Whangarei Hospital by ambulance following a road crash on State Highway 1 this morning.

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.