School principal Banapa Avatea's quick thinking and decisive actions averted disaster in peak-hour traffic between Auckland and Waikato.

One person died and another was trapped in a two-car crash in Northland this afternoon.

A woman was saved from her car after crashing through a tree, down a bank and into a stream.

A Chinese tourist who killed a friend in a rental car crash last week is “bereft” over the incident, a court has been told.

A diesel tanker rolled into a ditch on Auckland’s north western motorway this morning, during road construction work.

Police have yet to get the message. The gridlock suffered in Auckland last Saturday is simply unacceptable.

A Chinese woman on a trip to New Zealand has pleaded guilty over a West Coast crash that killed her companion and injured two others.

A Hong Kong couple escaped injury yesterday afternoon when their rental vehicle left the road and plunged about 50m down a bank on the Queenstown-Glenorchy Rd.

Police have defended their handling of a harbour bridge crash which closed three northbound lanes on Saturday, causing traffic jams that crippled the Auckland's transport system.

City leaders question why a crash on the harbour bridge brought Auckland to a standstill. We look at the options for easing congestion if it happened again.

An anguished man was seen screaming in horror as he carried an 18-month-old girl moments after she was accidentally run over in a South Auckland driveway.

Nick Wallbridge was left fighting for his life after a van smash that killed his teacher and classmate.

A serious crash brought Auckland’s motorway network to its knees with motorists stuck in grid-locked traffic for up to four hours.

Two motorcyclists have been critically injured in a crash on Auckland's Harbour Bridge today.

The scene of a serious crash on Auckland’s Harbour Bridge has been cleared and the northbound lanes reopened.

Two people are seriously injured after their car crashed through a barrier and down a cliff in Kerikeri early this morning.

A motorcyclist has died after a collision with a digger in Tauranga overnight.

A man is dead and another person is in hospital following a crash on Parewanui Rd in Bulls.

The parents of a little girl who died after being struck by a car in her West Auckland driveway have paid tribute to their princess. 'She was amazing.'

It has been a bad year on the roads, with a sharp increase in deaths compared with this time last year, as well as a big rise in pedestrian fatalities.

A van carrying seven occupants collided head on with a fully laden logging truck in Kaingaroa this morning.

A car driven by tourists was seen on the wrong side of the road shortly before it crashed on the West Coast of the South Island yesterday, killing one.

A motorcyclist who died after he left the road and crashed into a tree on Banks Peninsula at the weekend has been named by police.

Friends and family have paid tribute to the man killed in a tractor accident near Waikouaiti earlier this week as a "hell of a good guy".

The Australian teenager critically injured in a crash which killed two people near Rotorua is awake and talking to his parents, while his classmates mourn the loss of a fellow student and....

The Government has been accused of failing to do enough to prevent road crashes involving tourists, following the sentencing of a man who fell asleep at the wheel.

A tourist driver who arrived from Australia early in the morning and hired a rental car, fell asleep at the wheel - causing a head-on crash that killed his mother.

Police believe a male motorcyclist killed in Christchurch yesterday lost control of his bike.

A misguided dive onto a bed has left a former top volleyball representative not knowing if she will walk again.

The family of a young Kiwi man killed in a drunken car crash while on holiday in Samoa feel they may never get justice for their son.