Advertising material covering the window of a Christchurch driver may have limited his visibility when his truck a cyclist in April last year.

A British tourist hopes his near-death experience at the hands of a foreign driver prevents a repeat of the crash that killed a 5-year-old Oamaru girl.

It has been a tragic summer on New Zealand roads. The Christmas-New Year road toll was the worst for 17 years, prompting soul-searching among the authorities.

A Haast woman who confiscated the car keys from a Chinese tourist driving badly at Franz Josef Glacier says she did what any responsible citizen would do.

A Taiwanese tourist killed in a crash in Canterbury last week has been named.

Drastic action by a person who flagged down a tourist driving on the wrong side of the road and confiscated their car keys yesterday is being investigated by police.

Six overseas drivers have appeared in court over the past 24 hours after a series of crashes that have focused attention on tourist driving.

A heartbroken family are mourning the loss of 5-year-old Ruby Jay Marris after a car crash involving a foreign driver in Otago.

The 5-year-old Oamaru girl killed in a crash in North Otago on Saturday has been named by police.

A Napier motorcycle rider who suffered serious head injuries in a crash on Friday afternoon in the Wharerata Hills south of Gisborne has died of his injuries.

Government inaction has been blamed for "driving the tourist road toll" up, following two crashes involving Chinese visitors over the weekend.

A 32-year-old Chinese tourist will appear in court today after a 5-year-old Oamaru girl was killed in a North Otago crash on Saturday afternoon.

A five-year-old girl died in a fatal crash in North Otago last night.

Two people have been injured in a head-on collision on a country road.

A teenager in critical condition in Waikato Hospital last night has yet to learn of the deaths of his parents and sister in a head-on crash with a logging truck this week.

The road toll continued to rise yesterday with three more deaths in a grim week on New Zealand roads.

Two life-long friends who shared a "perfect" bond had been on the summer road-trip of their lives before they were killed in a crash.

The death of two tourists whose campervan was swept away in a slip was the result of a "tragic coming together of a number of events", a coroner has found.

One person has died following a collision between a rental van and a 4-wheel-drive in Christchurch this morning.

The mother of one of the women who died in a two-car crash near Thames yesterday has paid tribute to her daughter.

A motorcyclist has been left shaken after colliding with a car on Auckland's Eden Terrace this morning.

Two women who died in a head-on collision in Waikato this morning were a New Zealander and an Australian, police have confirmed.

Robin Kearns writes: Whose city is this? Does Auckland belong only to adults and motorists? Perhaps we all need to slow down and reconsider our priorities.

As Penny Taniela ran down the street towards her unconscious daughter she didn't know what to think or expect.

One person is believed to have died following a two-car collision in south Taranaki today.