Mourners at a tangi watched in horror as a three-year-old girl was run over by a relative in a packed marae car park.

Donations for the family of a cyclist killed outside Dunedin Hospital on Monday have reached $7500.

Superstar chef Heston Blumenthal has pulled out of a gourmet food festival in Western Australia after two of his chefs died in a Hong Kong car crash.

A grieving father extended an olive branch of forgiveness to the man who killed his daughter and another driver during an emotional court address.

A cyclist run over by a stock truck outside Dunedin Hospital was a senior lecturer at the University of Otago's Faculty of Dentistry, a husband and father of two preschoolers.

Police want to speak with witnesses who saw an orange Ford Falcon in the hours before the driver was killed when his vehicle crashed into a tree in the Waikato.

A Northland man has started a two-and-a-half year jail term for killing his partner and a man when his unwarranted and unregistered car crashed into another.

A Whangarei motorcyclist is in a serious condition after a collision with a car on State Highway 1 near Waipu.

A man has died after a car crashed into a drain near Hastings early this morning.

A man has appeared in court after being charged by police investigating a fatal hit-and-run in the Auckland suburb of Waterview early yesterday.

Emergency services are rushing to the scene of a car crash in Te Puke where one person is trapped.

A two-year-old boy died after being hit by a vehicle in a driveway in Papakura, an incident believed to have happened at the home of the toddler's grandparents.