Police have named a female cyclist who was one of 12 people killed in crashes on New Zealand's roads this weekend.

A horror weekend on the country's roads has seen nine people die, including two cyclists and a heavily pregnant woman.

Three teenage boys have been praised as heroes for their actions after a serious collision.

An elderly man is being taken to hospital in a critical condition after being found on a street in Onehunga.

When is a pursuit not a pursuit? When it involves a 'fleeing' driver, according to the police.

One person was killed and two critically injured when a car collided with a school bus near Kumeu, west of Auckland, this afternoon.

A plane that crashed near Fox Glacier, killing nine, is believed to have been over its maximum allowable weight and off-balance.

A spider may have contributed to a quad bike crash that killed Westport teenager Renee McNelis on Monday.

Onlookers were left terrified and thousands lost power when the demolition of a smoke stack went badly wrong in the US state of Ohio.

A five-year-old boy hit by a car outside a South Auckland pre-school has been discharged from hospital.

A new road safety campaign is appealing to young male drivers to 'slow down and stay in mantrol', in an attempt to reduce NZ's road toll.

A 5-year-old boy was in a serious condition last night after he was hit by a car outside a kindergarten centre in South Auckland.

The vision of her mother dying in hospital after being knocked off her bike by a motorist asleep at the wheel is imprinted on Sarah Carr's mind.