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Chemical spill on Chch motorway
A trailer being towed by a ute flipped on a Canterbury motorway this afternoon, spilling chemicals onto the road, and slowing traffic.
A trailer being towed by a ute flipped on a Canterbury motorway this afternoon, spilling chemicals onto the road, and slowing traffic.
The tourist driver who caused the death of Oamaru 5-year-old Ruby Marris is appealing his jail sentence.
''Today Mr Cao has received his sentence, but it doesn't matter what it is, as nothing will bring our Ruby back,'' a statement from the couple said.
A Manawatu man was seriously injured when he was struck by a motorcyclist in a hit and run incident over the weekend.
The tourist responsible for the death of Oamaru 5-year-old Ruby Jay Marris has been jailed.
A close friend of Alana Madill has paid tribute to a woman she says was an "exceptionally vibrant person".
A teenager was critically injured and had to be cut from his car after a crash left it wrapped around a tree.
Nearly $14,000 has been raised for the daughter of former All Black Jerry Collins.
About 1500 people rallied in Narbonne late last night to pay tribute to former All Black Jerry Collins and his Canadian partner Alana.
A Mainfreight truck has been left on the edge of a 15-metre cliff following an accident.
The health of Jerry Collins' baby daughter is improving as she fights for her life in hospital following the French car crash that killed her mother and father.
In a game full of hard men, Jerry Collins, the kid from Porirua, stood out head and shoulders - and 58cm biceps - above them all.
The passenger of a car that crashed in Feilding yesterday has died in hospital.
Children among four people hurt after truck rolls in the Bay of Plenty, with one of the four critically injured.
A car that struck a power pole cut electricity to 600 homes in Auckland this morning.
Two pedestrians have died and one is in hospital in a serious condition after being hit by vehicles in separate incidents in the past two days.
A person has been taken to hospital after being hit by a bus in central Auckland tonight.
An elderly woman has died after being hit by a van in Orewa this afternoon.
The mother of Mosgiel brother and sister Shannon and Danielle Kiriau has slammed the jail term handed to the pair's killer.
A reduced Queen's Birthday weekend road toll is still not good enough, say police.
The pedestrian who was hit by a truck on Fanshaw St in Auckland tonight has died.
A learner driver who killed two Mosgiel siblings - including his then girlfriend - has robbed a mother of seeing what her children would become, he was told this morning.
The country’s top road cop is lamenting the deaths of five people over the Queen’s Birthday holiday weekend, including a 5-year-old boy who died in hospital yesterday.
There were feral scenes outside a Dunedin courthouse as associates of a learner driver jailed on two counts of manslaughter took their anger out on the media.
The Queen's Birthday holiday road toll stands at a minimum of three this evening, with potentially a further fatality, following a number of crashes over the weekend.
On the final day of the long weekend, motorists are being urged to prepare for their journeys home.
One person died and eight were injured on the roads in a chaotic start to the holiday weekend.
A toddler critically injured when he ran into the path of a car on Auckland's Mt Eden Rd had his third birthday this week in a rehab centre.
A bus passenger and a driver of a car were injured in a serious crash in East Auckland on Saturday afternoon.
A woman died after trying to do a U-turn when a logging truck struck her vehicle outside of Te Puke this morning, police say.