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Father's anguish after driveway tragedy
'It's a bloody terrible thing ... that was my baby girl,' said distraught dad Daniel Thompson after a driveway tragedy that killed his baby daughter.

Another toddler run over in driveway
A second toddler has been driven over in the space of 24 hours and is in Tauranga Hospital with serious head injuries.

Toddler killed as father drives van down driveway
Police have named a toddler who died after a vehicle driven by her father hit her on the driveway of their Waikato home.

Crash prompts road name review
Confusion over the location of a motorcycle accident in which a man was killed has prompted emergency services to use colloquial road names.

Black weekend on NZ roads
A teenager was clinging to life last night as six crashes in 20 hours left one person dead and 15 needing hospital treatment.

Woman trapped in crashed plane
Rescue workers had to pull a badly injured woman from the wreckage of a Great Barrier Airlines plane that crashed yesterday.

Police release dead toddler's name
Police have named the Morrinsville toddler who died in hospital on Saturday night.

Tornado tears into country homes
When the Fire Service called John Weatherley and told him there was a problem at home he thought his house must have burned down.