Darren Lee Wilson, the motorcylist killed while fleeing police in Christchurch today, has left behind a young son, his distraught friends say.

The motorcyclist killed while fleeing police in Christchurch today has left behind a young son, his distraught friends say.

Two men dragged an injured forestry worker from his car as it burst into flames after crashing into wandering livestock on a Far North rural road.

Mac Robinson drove past a fatal crash in Matamata on Monday night before glancing back and realising the car involved was his wife's.

One person has died in a crash in Canterbury this morning. The crash occurred on Bealey Rd, near Darfield, around 8.20am, police said.

A man was in a serious condition in Thames Hospital last night after his car burst into flames following a crash in Coromandel.

A man died after what police describe as a "highly modified trike" crashed in Napier yesterday.

A digger driver who was critically injured after being hit by a train this morning was carrying out work for KiwiRail.

The toddler who was killed in a crash in the Bay of Plenty on the weekend has been formally identified by police.

Two weeks after a wrong-way driver killed Karen Yong, her mother and sister can't bear to pack up her life into cardboard boxes.

Three people are believed to be injured after a car flipped on a highway north of Auckland.

Alcohol has been ruled out as a factor in a fatal crash in the Bay of Plenty this morning, which killed an 18-month-old child.

A 36-year-old man from the United States was taken to Dunedin Hospital in a critical condition after a crash on Great King St North early this morning.

A truck carrying prestressed concrete walls crashed south of Katikati at 7am, bringing down power lines.

Auckland Transport is upgrading a Parnell intersection where a pedestrian was hit and killed by a truck this morning.

The driver of a car has died in a head-on collision with a truck and trailer unit in Bay of Plenty.

Kiwi ad agencies are pretty good at road safety messages - but Volkswagen may have trumped all our previous efforts with a brilliant ad campaign to fight mobile phone use in cars.

Stories of fatal crashes are told too often in New Zealand, and in the past six months there has been no shortage of examples.

Car rental companies and airlines could do more to advise tourists about driving in New Zealand, say a visiting American couple.

Four people have been injured in a collision on Dunedin's southern motorway, in which one of the vehicles may have been travelling in the wrong direction.

The first areas to get new digital speed cameras have been revealed by police. So where will the first 12 be located?

After her car hit black ice, plunging down a bank and sank into a pond, Helen Kay grabbed her cat and 'kicked the hell out of a window' to escape.

The driver of a campervan that allegedly crossed the centreline and crashed into an oncoming utility in the Coromandel on Friday night, killing an Auckland woman, has appeared in court.