As she lay trapped in mangled wreckage with serious injuries, crash victim tells how love of family inspired her to cling onto life.

Significant lane restrictions would also have an impact on drivers using the Te Atatu interchange

Latest fatal crash happened on a 70km/h stretch of Happy Valley Rd in Wellington at about 11am.

A woman died after she was hit by a vehicle on State Highway 1 (Bluff Highway) near the intersection with Omaui Rd about 1am today.

Giant tunnelling machine's two-year mission almost at an end.

The project is as dangerous environmentally as it as unviable economically, writes Peter Wilson. There are few areas more cherished to trampers and mountaineers than South Westland.

We've already got congestion, but wait and see what we'll get if the Government drags its heels on the rail link, writes Brian Rudman.

Supporters of the Takapuna waterfront camping ground turned out in force last night in a bid to push for its long-term lease on public reserve and a facelift.

New road markings in Auckland's Newmarket have left drivers queuing at a busy intersection behind parked cars, thinking they are waiting to turn.

Drivers are being urged to be careful after two recent crashes involving cars skidding on black ice.

Ashburton Police are warning the public to take extreme care on the roads in the Canterbury region due to reports of black ice.

The police were very quick to take up defensive positions this week when it was revealed that officers in the Counties Manukau district had been told not to ticket unlicensed Maori drivers.

The Coroner has found the death of a tourist driver may have been caused by a combination of unclear signage and unfamiliarity with New Zealand road markings.

As a new Spaghetti Junction rises, contractors are also toiling on a slew of related motorway projects to add flesh to the long-awaited western ring route.

Government road builders in the thick of the country's largest transport upgrade are designing yet another project for Auckland's western ring route.

Yesterday's destructive waves are likely to become a more common occurrence, says a councillor from the worst-hit parts of Wellington.

Massive waves caused havoc on Wellington's south coast, sending boulders onto roads, despite fine and sunny weather in the region today.

Dangerous and distracted drivers will be the focus of a police sting over the next few months in a bid to reduce the number of crashes over winter.

Auckland's proposed harbour bridge Skypath has been portrayed to a planning hearing as a critical missing link in the city's cycling and walking network

One person died and eight were injured on the roads in a chaotic start to the holiday weekend.

A toddler critically injured when he ran into the path of a car on Auckland's Mt Eden Rd had his third birthday this week in a rehab centre.

Motorists are being warned to take care this Queen's Birthday weekend as holiday-makers hit the roads, winter draws in and 'Gypsy Day' stock moving takes place.

Huge waves and powerful winds have scattered debris and stopped traffic on coastal roads in central parts of the country today.

The tunnel boring machine Alice is now a quarter of the way into drilling the second motorway tunnel of the Waterview Connection.

The New Zealand Transport Agency is adding two lanes, plus a cycleway to a 9.5km stretch of the Southern Motorway between Manukau and Papakura.

Construction is due to resume at the weekend on the giant Waterview motorway interchange project after the discovery of faulty concrete forced it to a halt a fortnight ago.

The speed limit on any road should be appropriate to its design and condition, not the subject of a default 100km/h setting.

The family of a keen rugby player who died yesterday, several days after a crash near Kurow in Canterbury, say he had made many plans for the future with them.