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.

The cyclist, a 35-year-old man, collided with a car about 8.30pm on Main Rd in the suburb of Fairfield.

The life and business partner of a Whanganui woman killed in a two-car collision on Saturday was still in a serious condition in hospital last night.

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.

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.

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

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.

Three people are critically injured after a serious crash in Karangahake Gorge - the second crash in the same spot today.

A series of crashes have left four people dead this Waitangi weekend.

The crash happened about 9pm yesterday and the rider was taken to hospital in a serious condition.

A 23-year-old man is dead after being flung from a vehicle in a crash early this morning.