A 55-year-old woman had just beaten the cancer she had battled for 10 years when a teen, nearly five times over the youth drink driving limit, crossed the centre line and smashed into her car. He was jailed today.

Multiple breaches of police policy have been found in a pursuit where an officer was hit and seriously wounded by a drug-affected fleeing offender. The IPCA found a pursuing officer ignored two orders to abandon the chase.

Witnesses to a fatal car crash in Auckland's Mission Bay heard a survivor scream, 'Bro, I told you not to speed'.

An alcohol-fuelled Auckland road crash early this morning has left a teenage girl dead and three in shock.

A woman who lost control of her car and killed three cyclists says she hates herself for what happened.

The 13-year-old killed when he drove into a fence had been hidden by his family after running away from a caregiver.

A climber is reported to have been killed and a paraglider has spinal injuries after accidents on two South Island mountains today.

Four people are believed to have fled a crash in Manurewa in which a 13-year-old died.

The driver of a car that collided with a group of cyclists, killing three, has admitted causing their deaths.

A grieving father and spokesman for families of the 29 men killed in the Pike River Coal mine says he's "gutted" for the Pike River workers made redundant after the company went into receivership.