An Auckland motorcyclist is hospitalised after his bike and sidecar flipped in a crash on the St Marys Bay motorway approach to the harbour bridge.

A driver walked out of hospital with only scrapes and scratches after his 4WD rolled and ended up a 'mangled mess'.

A 4-year-old killed in a crash may have survived if the family dog had not been sitting on the seatbelt the boy should have had on, a coroner has found.

An elderly driver who caused a "horrendous" multiple-vehicle smash on Auckland's Southern Motorway has received a six-month driving ban and a $1000 reparation order.

Blenheim police say a suspected drunk driver who killed another motorist after crashing last night was not being chased.

The use of adult seatbelts may have contributed to the death of a young boy and critical wounding of his sister in a fiery head-on crash.

With his body strapped into a helicopter and his mate racing his Subaru rally car on the asphalt below, Stace Hopper made his flight to eternity.

A woman driving down the UK's A1 motorway was pinned to the front of a truck in her car for over 530 metres.

A mother has been killed by a driver who witnesses said was extremely drunk at 8am.

Family mourns for boy who died when a van belonging rolled on the Southern Motorway.

A US man jogging on the beach and listening to his iPod was killed when he was hit from behind by a small plane.