Woman left with serious facial injuries after explosion when she lit cigarette in her car.

Woman headed for hospital after motorcycle crash in the Manawatu.

Driver of car that crashed, killing four in a fiery blaze, has admitted dangerous driving.

A truck has landed on its side after a four-vehicle crash on Auckland's Southern Motorway.

Police warn motorists of icy roads across Otago this morning.

The road has surface flooding after heavy storms hit Auckland this evening.

Police stopped a dobbed-in driver but he took off and crashed, killing two.

A woman had to be cut from her car in Kumeu this afternoon after it collided with a truck.

Stephen John Hayden and Nigel Stuart Freeman were killed in the two-car collision.

Crash leaves a lane blocked on northwestern motorway.

Erin Martin was one of the 8000 Kiwis injured by horses every year but she wasn't put off.

Motorcyclist dies after crashing into a pole in St Albans, Christchurch.

Sione Palei "Bah'' Tuiano, 24, died in a crash in the Hutt Valley yesterday.

A truck has become stuck under a rail overbridge on SH1 near Marton.

The vehicle crashed around 9.30pm on Puhinui Rd in Papatoetoe.

Two people have died in two separate crashes in the Far North and Hutt Valley.

Seven Kiwis have died in workplace deaths in the past three weeks.

The driver and passengers were fine but the cow was not so lucky.

One person is dead and at least 10 people injured after a bus and 4WD crashed.

Woman trying to drive on a public walking track ended up in a ditch.

Mum of killed teen: "One second of distraction is all it took."

Dunedin man Murray Barrington, 73, was a member of the Otago Aero Club.

Multi-storey craft packed with 170 passengers for Colombian holiday weekend capsizes.

A car slid on an icy road and plunged into Otago Harbour this morning.

The survivor of yesterday's Otago plane crash is 'recovering well'.

A motorist who woke to find himself impaled on a fence post tried not to "freak out".

He lost his legs in an accident doctors said would kill him. Here is his incredible life.

Families of French engineering students who died in a fiery crash have arrived in NZ.

Person trapped after crash in Whatawhata.

Two people died in separate crashes on North Island roads today.