Many drivers are flouting the ban on cellphones and police fear talking and texting will lead to more carnage.

A freak road accident where a truck wheel came loose and killed a man in a bus on Auckland's southern motorway earlier this year is heading to court.

Two trains collided in east India, killing 61 people and injuring many more.

The US government allowed BP to keep the cap shut on its oil well for another day despite news the well is leaking.

Six people have been injured, two of those seriously, after a head-on crash in the Auckland suburb of Lynfield this morning.

Two teens in hospital with critical injuries after a horror Waikato crash were wearing seatbelts, a relative says. Friends were thrown from the vehicle.

A teenager who walked away from a horror smash that left 11 others in hospital says he woke on the road hearing his friends calling for help.

A second serious crash in the Bay of Plenty has left a mother and five children injured, with four in serious condition in Tauranga hospital.

Sandy Adams kissed Skye goodbye and the child let out her typical high-pitched giggle. It was the last time she saw her 'little button' alive.

A jetboat driver has been fined and ordered to pay reparation to the family of a British tourist killed in a river boat crash in December 2008.

The flying instructor badly injured in Monday's plane crash near Palmerston North has shown promising signs of recovery.

Government plans to apply "experience rating" - essentially a no- or low-claims discount on employers' ACC levies - from April next year.