A truck driver is thought to have been on the phone to his nephew the moment his vehicle plunged down a cliff near Kaikoura, his brother says.

A Taumarunui mum is serving a life sentence. Her gut instinct told her it wasn't safe to hold her baby in her lap and put the carseat in the boot , but Mary Navacilla did it anyway, just this once.

Two families will never be the same again. Shane Summerfield lost his wife, Sally, and his 12-year-old daughter, Ella; Sam Summerfield lost his mother and his little sister.

A truck driver is thought to have been on the phone to his nephew the moment his vehicle plunged down a cliff near Kaikoura, his brother says.

Black ice has caused several crashed on State Highway 5 this morning, with parts of central North Island experiencing temperatures well below zero.

A person has died after a motorbike crash north of Auckland.

One person was taken to hospital in a critical condition after a crash on Auckland's Tamaki Drive this morning.

A hit a tree south of Gore this morning, and the impact was enough to split it in two.

A Napier truck driver negotiating the steep Otira Viaduct for the first time probably experienced brake failure, a coroner has ruled.

A crane arrived this afternoon at the scene of a truck crash on the Kaikoura coast in which the driver has been missing since this morning.

Four people were trapped when a bus rolled near Clarks Junction, inland from Outram near Dunedin, this morning.

Just over two months ago, a battered Phoenix Ruddell lay in an induced coma at Starship Hospital with injuries so serious that doctors expected a long road back to recovery.

An 18-year-old woman who was thrown 15 metres in a crash in Apiti on Friday died in hospital.

The first of a series of new fixed speed cameras has gone live today.

A man was killed on the Moutere Highway, Nelson, after being struck by a vehicle.

A young woman was thrown 15 metres from a vehicle following a crash in the Manawatu region early today.

What was meant to be the start of a long-awaited family holiday turned into every parent's nightmare.

Three teenage boys are in hospital following a police pursuit which ended with the car they were in slamming into a pole on Auckland's North Shore.

The daughter of a cyclist killed after being hit by a courier van on Monday said her mother was "very safety conscious" and would be "incredibly missed".

The young man whose vehicle collided with a train on Northpark Rd, just north of Ashburton, has died in hospital.

A truck driver involved in a collision that killed a cyclist says he hadn't had an eye examination in at least five years at the time of the accident.

A 7-year-old boy was flown to Auckland's Starship Hospital in a serious condition last night after being hit by a car in Tauranga's Welcome Bay.

A 7-year-old boy hit by a car in Welcome Bay last night remains in a critical condition at Auckland's Starship hospital this morning.

A Courier Post driver says a fatal accident with a cyclist yesterday was over in an instant.