Police have named a toddler who died after a vehicle driven by her father hit her on the driveway of their Waikato home.

One person was killed and another critically injured when a van carrying eight people crashed yesterday.

Confusion over the location of a motorcycle accident in which a man was killed has prompted emergency services to use colloquial road names.

A teenager was clinging to life last night as six crashes in 20 hours left one person dead and 15 needing hospital treatment.

A mystery man holding a broken umbrella is on a growing list of "people of interest" to police hunting missing toddler Aisling Symes.

Rescue workers had to pull a badly injured woman from the wreckage of a Great Barrier Airlines plane that crashed yesterday.

Police have named the Morrinsville toddler who died in hospital on Saturday night.

When the Fire Service called John Weatherley and told him there was a problem at home he thought his house must have burned down.

It will take several days to establish what caused the death of a 22-month-old girl taken to hospital with serious injuries, police say.