Driver trying to reach 160km/h smashed into a cottage killing his friend and injuring two.

A mum had seconds to react after a car pulled out in front of her on a highway.

The parents of an 87-day-old baby who died in a crash while unrestrained share her story.

EDITORIAL: Ignoring the message to Buckle Up can have catastrophic results for families.

What can we do to get all Kiwis wearing seatbelts, and bring down the growing death rate?

The spill is blocking the right lane, south-bound, on George Bolt Memorial Drive.

Fire crews have freed the driver after his vehicle was hit by a bus.

Power is out and traffic is stopped from travelling along a major South Auckland road.

Four people taken to hospital after three cars crash in Dunedin.

WorkSafe NZ will not be taking action on a tragic river crossing near Harihari last year.

Police say helicopters are on the way to the scene where three people have been injured.

Last year 93 people died in crashes where they were unrestrained. Who were they?

Andre Trotter had his whole life ahead of him. Not wearing a seatbelt cut that very short

Today the Herald launches Belt Up, a series looking at seatbelt deaths in New Zealand.

Crash victim Te Iwiroa Smith hated wearing his seatbelt. It cost him his life.

The family had been amazed and humbled by the support shown to them since the tragedy.

NZ's worst road accident to be remembered in a play that finds grief still raw 54 years on

The driver was reported missing after he did not arrive in Westport last night.

There was a knock on the door of the Sharma family home at 2am-it was two police officers.

Onehunga Mall and motorway off-ramps at Neilson St and Onehunga Harbour Rd were closed.

Police say a male driver hit a woman and an infant with a car in Papakura yesterday.

A woman and baby are in a stable condition after they were hit by a car in south Auckland.

A man has died in a crash at Penrose.

A man has died after his car hit a tree on Great South Rd.

The three-car pile up is blocking a lane eastbound on Greenhithe Bridge

Go Bus admitted an error in judgment, but deny bus incidents were related.

Vital road closed for 12 hours after truck crash.

Northbound traffic almost at a standstill thanks to earlier motorway crash.

A truck and ute have crashed on the corner of SH2 and Maxwell Rd in Maramarua.

A crash is blocking the main highway north of Auckland.