Drivers are flouting the ban on hand-held cellphones - new figures show a phone-related car crash almost every two days, dozens of injuries and five deaths last year.

A new mum said goodbye to her 4-month-old daughter and left for work - 10 minutes later she died in a car crash.

Police are urging people to adjust their driving to wet conditions after a fatal crash this morning.

Ten people were hurt in three separate crashes on a notorious stretch of highway in just six hours yesterday.

A decorated soldier's family have spoken of their grief at his death in a crash that broke every rule.

A horror crash north of Tauranga which killed three people was "like a war zone", police say.

The Pike River mine tragedy would not have happened if NZ had maintained a mining inspector programme canned more than a decade ago, a mining expert says. He says families are right to be furious at the Govt for interfering in mine safety.

Quick-witted rescuers scrawled a line in the beach to point others to the site of a helicopter crash.

The father of a man killed in a collision has told his son's friends to remember him when they get into a car.

In a scene straight out of a desert island castaway story, a line scrawled in the beach pointed rescuers to a helicopter crash in the sea near Whangarei today, helping save a pilot's life.

A man with serious leg injuries has been cut from a van in a crash causing long delays on the Southern Motorway in Auckland.

A 23-year-old man has been taken to hospital after being pulled from the sea after his helicopter crashed off the Northland coast. He was the pilot and only occupant of the chopper and escaped with minor injuries.