An out-of-control monster truck shot into a crowd of spectators at a Mexican air show, killing at least eight people and hurting 80 others.

Better drivers may soon be paying lower insurance premiums than those who escape crashes only through sheer luck.

A Lamborghini owner damaged his car - and his ego - when he crashed his rare $200,000 sportscar into a house in the upmarket Coromandel township of Pauanui.