A vehicle with two occupants sideswiped another vehicle before losing control and crashing into the Mt Albert Pak’N’Save on New North Road.

I saw a really cute toddler last Monday afternoon. She had cute little pigtails, a pink onesie and no one with her, writes Matt Heath.

The owner of a busy central Auckland restaurant is unsure when he can reopen after a car smashed through the front window last night.

A car has smashed through a glass window into a busy central Auckland restaurant tonight. Police were called to the scene at 8.50pm, to find the Holden commodore inside Paradise Garden restaurant on Vogel Lane, near the Skytower. A police spokesman said there were about 15 people in the restaurant at the time, but neither customers, nor the car's male driver were injured.

A male pedestrian is in serious condition after he was hit by a car as he crossed the road in Tauranga tonight.

One person has died following a crash involving two cars and a truck in Canterbury this afternoon.

A New Zealand Herald delivery driver could have survived an early morning crash today if he had been wearing his seatbelt, police say.

A student spent five months chasing compensation after a driving collision involving the boss of AA Smartfuel.

A woman has been killed after being hit by a car in Auckland tonight. The woman, in her 80s, was crossing the road when she was struck by a car driving out of the Z service station in Ash St, Avondale shortly before 10pm.

A man who allegedly hit a woman in the rental car he was driving, then fled the scene, has been named.

The man killed in a head-on collision on a Coromandel highway yesterday has been named by police.

A French tourist who backed her rental car over a cliff above Lake Wanaka early yesterday afternoon had a lucky escape from serious injury.

A seriously injured driver was trapped in his vehicle after it and an empty fuel tanker collided in Invercargill today.

It felt like half of Michele Foster-Chambers' body was crushed when she was hit by a car on an Auckland street.

The number of people killed on NZ roads so far this year is 20 per cent higher than at the same time last year, with a "spike" in the number of passengers killed.

Two French tourists whose hired camper van was struck by a landslide on never heard back from Wicked Campers about why the pair were charged more than $2500.

After a year living in Mexico it's fair to say the roads were chaotic there. But, I truly believe Mexican drivers were better than Aucklanders, writes Sam Judd.

The learner driver of an illegally modified Honda has admitted killing two Mosgiel siblings, as further details of the horror crash emerge.

The crash took place on the Northern Motorway at Dairy Flat around 4.30am.

A Waikato man is dead and two others injured after a three-car pile-up on the outskirts of Hamilton.

A man has been charged after allegedly hitting a woman in the rental car he was driving and fleeing the scene afterwards.

A truck driver has been praised after deliberately steering his out-of-control truck and trailer into a bank as it hurtled down a steep bank.

The two truck collision took place on State Highway 1 near the intersection of Jordan Valley Rd, Hikurangi, around 6.45am.

The Chinese tourist responsible for the death of Oamaru 5-year-old Ruby Jay Marris has been told to prepare himself for jail.

A Chinese tourist has admitted causing the death of Oamaru 5-year-old Ruby Jay Marris.

A man aged in his 40s was critically injured after his car and a truck collided near Pukekohe yesterday.

An Australian tourist responsible for a three-car collision near Milford Sound in February must pay reparation to two women injured in the crash.

A man was rushed to hospital in serious condition this afternoon after a truck and car collided in Auckland.