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 major crash involving two large trucks damaged traffic lights in Christchurch this morning.

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.

A man has died after crashing his distinctive vehicle into a tree in Auckland yesterday.

A 32-year-old man has died after his vehicle and a truck and trailer unit collided near Tokoroa early today.

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.

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.

The deaths of Sally Summerfield, her daughter Ella and Ella's friend Abi Hone have left a "big, dark hole" in the tight-knit Sumner community, friends say.

The driver involved in a crash that killed 8-year-old Katikati girl Jasnoor Kaur has died.

A state highway was strewn with squash when a fully loaded truck and trailer unit carrying the vegetable overturned near Gisborne early this morning.

An unlicenced 16-year-old Dunedin youth is in hospital with a serious head injury after fleeing police in a high-speed pursuit.