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Taupo crash closes highway
A woman was seriously injured in a crash near Taupo this morning.
A woman was seriously injured in a crash near Taupo this morning.
A woman has died after the car she was driving collided with a tree in west Auckland this morning.
The number of road deaths over the Christmas-New Year holiday period edged one higher than last year following a motorcyclist death yesterday afternoon.
Eight family members, including a six-month-old boy and two young girls, were injured in a horror van crash today after the driver is believed to have fallen asleep.
A man has handed himself in after a crash left live power lines dangling over the rear entrance of the Huntly Fire Station.
The number of people killed on our roads this year is the lowest since 1950, down 17 per cent on the previous year.
A motorcyclist has died just off State Highway 1 north of Bulls this morning, taking the holiday road toll to six.
One person is dead after a bus and car collided in Hamilton today, bringing the holiday road toll to five.
As holiday revellers take to the roads today, police are warning motorists to take their time, be patient and steer clear of the booze.
Travellers are being urged to avoid the east coast of the Coromandel as heavy rain has brought flooding to many coastal communities, police say.
Police are urging holiday motorists to slow down following the second serious speed-related crash in Waikato in as many days.
An out of control car turned off a straight road, drove down some brick steps, through a barrier and into a Havelock North hairdressing salon.
A taxi driver feels lucky to have escaped death after his car was swept away by the swollen Silver Stream near Dunedin.
Two people have been seriously injured in two separate crashes in Auckland early today.
A drunk driver who fled the scene of an early morning crash in Waikato could be seriously injured and police are "seriously concerned" about his whereabouts.
Police are calling on motorists to take extra care over the holiday period, following a weekend that saw two people killed, several seriously injured, and two others rescued from a car hanging in a tree.
Two people had to be rescued from a vehicle that was left hanging sideways from a tree down a sheer bank after it crashed off a rural Coromandel road yesterday afternoon.
A man was critically injured when a car crashed into a pole and rolled on Tamaki Drive in Auckland this morning.
A woman in her 80s is recovering from serious injuries after being hit by a car as she crossed a road in Auckland yesterday.
Christchurch police have released the name of the skateboarder killed in an accident in Loburn, north of Rangiora, last night.
A motorcyclist died following a collision with a car on the Rimutaka Hill Rd near Featherston around yesterday.
The family of a woman who died in a crash on the West Coast on Monday don't know how to tell her youngest children their mum won't be coming home for Christmas.
A toddler involved in a crash which killed his mother and brother yesterday could also have been killed, had it not been for the heroic actions of members of the public, police say.
A young Tongan family who moved to the West Coast for the promise of a better life have been torn apart just days before Christmas.
A police official says at least 21 people were killed and 20 others were injured when a bus plunged from an elevated highway and onto a van in Manila.
'Not knowing whether they're going to survive is stressful,' says a man who hit a woman on a pedestrian crossing. The pair now want to prevent similar accidents.