NZ praised at global forum for road toll
New Zealand has been praised at a global forum for slashing its road toll last year, after the ignomy of edging up an international hit parade of carnage in 2012.
New Zealand has been praised at a global forum for slashing its road toll last year, after the ignomy of edging up an international hit parade of carnage in 2012.
Two people were killed this afternoon when a car was struck by a train on a rail crossing at Rotokohu, east of Reefton.
A woman has died after being struck by a reversing car whose driver wedged her jandal between the brake and accelerator, police say.
Two children seriously injured in a Bay of Plenty crash that killed their mother will today be released from Starship Hospital and will soon be heading home.
A serious crash near Auckland International Airport has caused major traffic delays during the Monday rush hour this morning.
The two people killed when an unroadworthy car crashed at high speed in Dunedin last night were brother and sister, police say.
A 19-year-old man is in a critical condition after being hit by a car near Gore last night.
The quick response and heroic actions of a group of Bureta women helped save a 58-year-old Tauranga woman whose car plunged over a two-storey bank.
The driver pictured here was travelling on a motorway, with one hand cupping a phone to his ear and the other holding a cigarette.
State Highway 1 near Warkworth will be closed from 7.30pm to remove wreckage of a large truck that crashed earlier today south of Pohuehue.
The passenger who walked away from a fatal Ferrari crash on Sunday had been looking forward to a ride in his "dream car".
The passenger who walked away unscathed from a fatal Ferrari crash on Sunday had been looking forward to a ride in his "dream car''.
A Ferrari driver who died yesterday after hitting a wall on a race track was estimated to have been driving at 190km/h at the time.
Emergency services are responding to a report of a person involved in a car, sinking in a body of water south of Te Puke.
A woman injured when the car she was driving toppled from a car park building in Christchurch has now been released from Christchurch Hospital.
A lucky escape for the driver of this vehicle at a shopping mall in Christchurch after the vehicle exited the carpark through a barrier on the 2nd floor.
Auckland motorists are being urged to avoid the Ash Street area of Avondale in Auckland after a car hit a tree.
The father of two preschoolers badly injured in a crash that killed their mother wants to start a campaign to stop people texting while driving.
Motorists heading into Auckland from the North Shore are facing traffic queues backed up to the Harbour Bridge following a crash earlier this morning.
Garth Barfoot has waived $11,000 in reparation a court ordered the woman who knocked him off his bicycle to pay him.
Matt Ruddell says it's the little things that are getting him through, as his two young children slowly recover from a horror car crash that killed his former partner.