A tourist driver has been punched in the face after being pulled over by another motorist, as tension over foreign drivers and crashes escalates.

A Frenchman who moved to NZ to "make his dream come true" swerved to avoid hitting a portable toilet that had fallen from a truck before colliding head-on with another truck.

A Japanese tourist was critically injured when his rental car and a truck collided near Christchurch today.

A young driver who died in a head-on collision with a truck was swerving to avoid a portable toilet which fell from another passing truck and trailer.

Ruby Jay Marris, the five year-old killed in a crash involving a foreign driver in Otago, has been remembered as “cherished and loved” and a "fun-loving princess".

Four people have been injured in a collision between a logging truck and a car this morning.

Teenager's headmaster says girl had recently found a "new lease on life" as police question other the occupants of the car.

A number of people are believed to be injured following a crash in Christchurch this morning.

It has been a tragic summer on New Zealand roads. The Christmas-New Year road toll was the worst for 17 years, prompting soul-searching among the authorities.

A Haast woman who confiscated the car keys from a Chinese tourist driving badly at Franz Josef Glacier says she did what any responsible citizen would do.

A Taiwanese tourist killed in a crash in Canterbury last week has been named.

Drastic action by a person who flagged down a tourist driving on the wrong side of the road and confiscated their car keys yesterday is being investigated by police.

Six overseas drivers have appeared in court over the past 24 hours after a series of crashes that have focused attention on tourist driving.

Five foreign drivers have appeared in court over the past seven days charged with dangerous driving in different parts of the country. How can we make tourists safer on our roads? Comment here.

A driver allegedly slammed another car off the road during a suspected road-rage incident yesterday, sending it careering into a bus shelter, seriously injuring a waiting teenager.

The 5-year-old Oamaru girl killed in a crash in North Otago on Saturday has been named by police.

A Napier motorcycle rider who suffered serious head injuries in a crash on Friday afternoon in the Wharerata Hills south of Gisborne has died of his injuries.

Government inaction has been blamed for "driving the tourist road toll" up, following two crashes involving Chinese visitors over the weekend.

A 32-year-old Chinese tourist will appear in court today after a 5-year-old Oamaru girl was killed in a North Otago crash on Saturday afternoon.

A five-year-old girl died in a fatal crash in North Otago last night.

Two people have been injured in a head-on collision on a country road.

A German man seriously injured in a crash that claimed the life of his wife and daughter has spoken for the first time about the tragedy.

A driver was swept more than 200m downstream and found clinging to a tree after his small truck went over a bank and into the Buller River.

A teenager in critical condition in Waikato Hospital last night has yet to learn of the deaths of his parents and sister in a head-on crash with a logging truck this week.

The road toll continued to rise yesterday with three more deaths in a grim week on New Zealand roads.

Two life-long friends who shared a "perfect" bond had been on the summer road-trip of their lives before they were killed in a crash.