A Hastings woman has been charged with causing the death of an 8-year-old boy after a crash into traffic queued at roadworks this year.

A pedestrian hit by a truck at the top of Newton Rd this morning is in hospital with moderate injuries.

A truck carrying paint thinner, sulphuric acid and other dangerous chemicals, has rolled on State Highway Two.

A man has been charged with dangerous driving causing death, six months after a mother and her baby son were killed in a two-car crash.

A man has been injured after the truck he was driving lost control and went over a bridge in Oxford, North Canterbury. Emergency

The devastated sister of a 15-year-old quad bike victim Jossie Wetini says she "just wants to wake up from the nightmare".

A pickup truck plummeted 60 feet from a San Diego overpass, crushing and killing four people who were attending a festival and injuring nine.

A teenage girl has been killed in a quad bike accident in Taharoa, while another person who was seriously injured is stable in hospital.

Police have confirmed the man who was found dead in his crashed ute had been missing for 10 days.

An injured man had to spend the night in his car after crashing through a fence and down a 100 metre hill before his dog helped raise the alarm.

The man killed in a crash on State Highway 2 near Pongakawa yesterday morning has been named as Martin John Ferry of Tauranga, police said.

The Fire Service is looking at what the conviction of a firefighter on the way to an emergency means for the future.

A man was seriously injured when his car rolled backwards down a New Plymouth driveway before crashing and flipping.

Overnight a driver drove over the edge of Aramoana Rd into the Otago Harbour at Deborah Bay (near Dunedin) and this morning a people mover collided into the back of a mini-bus on King Edward St in South Dunedin.

A car has crashed into a pipe on in Henderson, flooding the road.

A cyclist has been taken to hospital in a serious condition following a crash in Invercargill early this evening. The cyclist - whose

A 21-year-old local man died in a motorbike crash northwest of Timaru yesterday.

Family and friends have gathered to bid one final farewell to Huntly crash victim Stephen Phillips.

Police name the victim of yesterday's fatal crash in Wanaka.

A woman is believed to be in a serious condition after a crash near St Leonards this afternoon.

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A driver is seriously injured after a car and milk truck carrying more than 100 crates collided near Middlemore Hospital in South Auckland this morning.

A person has been killed in a crash north of Auckland early today.

Emergency services are heading to a crash in South Auckland near Auckland's Sylvia Park where a person is believed to be trapped.

A motorcyclist is in a serious condition after a crash in the Christchurch suburb of Cashmere.

Police said the motorcyclist appears to have hit the side of a bridge.

Police are advising motorists to avoid travel on State Highway 1 in the Wellington region due to a crash.

A woman whose vehicle was struck by a train at an Auckland level crossing yesterday was rushing to the airport, a witness says.

Two people have died and a third been injured in a serious crash on State Highway 1 in South Waikato.

Virginian couple had been honeymooning in New Zealand for just five days when husband was killed in a Wairarapa car crash.