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Man fights charges over fatal crash
A Hamilton man will fight a serious driving charge over the death of his friend and fellow motorcyclist on the outskirts of the city earlier this year.
A Hamilton man will fight a serious driving charge over the death of his friend and fellow motorcyclist on the outskirts of the city earlier this year.
Two trucks have crashed in southeast Auckland, causing major traffic delays, police say.
A crash which killed a teenage girl this week is the second fatal accident to involve an Onyx rubbish truck in Birkenhead in recent years.
The older sister of the 19-year-old woman who was killed in a rubbish truck crash in Auckland says she was dreading seeing the site.
Emergency services are at the scene of a crash, near the intersection of Riccarton Rd and Clyde Rd in Christchurch this morning.
One person is dead and another injured after the rubbish truck they were in plummeted 10m down a bank.
Temperatures got as low as -6C in parts of Otago overnight, and councils throughout the South Island are warning of widespread black ice and severe frosts.
A code of practice has been finalised to better screen and educate tourist drivers before they hire a vehicle in New Zealand.
A volunteer firefighter is mourning the loss of his son who was killed when the motorbike he was riding and a truck collided near Matamata last night.
Emergency services were called to the crash but were unable to save the man who died at the scene shortly afterwards.
Police have named the truck driver who died in a three-vehicle crash near Levin last night.
Phillip John Ballantyne, of Invercargill, died after a 1993 Landrover Discovery rolled after taking a bend on Otatara Rd near Currans Rd last night.
Traffic is easing for evening commuters on Auckland's Southern Motorway after two crashes caused headaches this afternoon.
Specialist staff including a serious crash investigator attended the Invercargill crash scene and planned to continue their examinations this morning.
The owner of a Papamoa superette says his mum is lucky to be alive after a car smashed through dairy's wall and tore the store apart.
The woman who died in a two-car crash in Queenstown on Friday was Jennifer Claire Scott, 76.
Emergency services were called to the scene of the crash in Beachlands this afternoon.
Police are still in the ''very early'' stages of the investigation into the crash that killed 18-year-old Nakita May Strange and it is unclear when charges will be laid.
A female passenger of a speeding vehicle which crashed near Taumaranui a week ago has died in hospital.
A 29-year-old suffered from serious injuries as a result of the accident and died at the scene.
Afatal crash near the Karangahake Gorge that may have been caused by a fallen boulder was not in an area known for rockfalls.
A man was killed he crossed the centre line on State Highway 2 near Paeroa and collided with a car this morning.
The 18-year-old girl who died in a crash in central Dunedin yesterday morning was Nakita May Strange.
A truck has smashed into a pole at an intersection, leaving one person injured and delaying traffic.
People mourning the loss of 14-year-old Rangimaria White, who was killed in a hit-and-run in Opotiki at the weekend, are gathering for her tangi today.
A driver involved in a Dunedin crash rushed to give CPR to a dying teenager who lay unconscious in the back seat of the other car.
Police said the 25-year-old driver of the second ute went straight in and pulled a 35-year-old woman and four-year-old boy from the vehicle.
Traffic is backed up on Auckland's on north-bound lane.
Central Dunedin residents have told how they were woken by a sickening T-bone crash in which a teenager was killed early this morning.