A police spokesman said a person had been taken to hospital in a serious condition after being struck by a vehicle on Auckland's North Shore.

Newly released figures show crushing boy racers' is working. Now Judith Collins is talking up the possibility of a similar law for drivers fleeing police.

A motorcyclist has died after a collision with a truck in South Auckland overnight.

Whanganui firefighters are recovering after "a night from hell".

A young family's holiday ended abruptly when their 18-month-old fell off a picnic table and landed on his head.

Hundreds of students from Wairarapa schools will be attending a driving awareness programme, following the deaths of two teenagers in a Masterton crash last month.

A female tourist has been charged with careless driving causing injury after a two-car collision wrote off a classic American muscle car and put the driver in hospital.

Drunk and medicated motorcyclist killed teenager Natalia Austin.

It's a slow start to the working week in Auckland.

Dunedin Police are looking for the driver who crashed their car into a power pole this morning, and then took off.

Pregnant mother of one, Emily Hurley, 20, of Whanganui was one of two drivers killed in a crash in Kaitoke yesterday.

An 18-year-old female and a 47-year-old male have died following a head-on collision south of Whanganui.

Emergency services are responding to reports of a fatal crash near Taylor's Mistake in eastern Christchurch.

A man who allegedly led police on a high-speed chase with a five-month-old baby in the back of his car will remain in custody.

Every time Sophia Perera looks at her newborn daughter, she's reminded of her first-born, whose life was cut short.

A 14-year-old boy has appeared in court charged with causing the deaths of two Featherston boys.

A man is being air-lifted to Whangarei Hospital in a critical condition after he became pinned under his work-truck.

A year from this weekend, Rhys Middleton was to be married to his long-time sweetheart, Laura Settle.

Mike Mills' mother says the 17-year-old was the innocent driver in the head-on crash that claimed his life.

Despite a broken jaw, deputy health and disability commissioner Rose Wall has been able to express her heartache at losing her husband in a horror crash.

Six people have received minor to moderate injuries after a two-car crash north of Christchurch this afternoon.

A man has been seriously injured after being struck by a vehicle in Mt Eden overnight.

The motorcycle community is shocked and saddened after losing one of its members in a fatal crash involving a tourist driver in Hawkes Bay yesterday.

Child safety advocates are hailing the reduction in child deaths and hospital admissions from unintentional injuries.

Two teens are killed in a stolen car fleeing police. As the driver - their friend - must face justice, the fingerpointing begins. Kirsty Johnston visits a divided Featherston.

Motorists not driving to conditions - and impatience - appear to be the themes of crashes which have killed five people so far this long weekend.

One person is dead after a crash between a car and a motorbike.

Four people died and six were critically injured in the first 24 hours of Waitangi weekend.