Road accident

Several school pupils have been injured after their bus collided with a rail bridge while travelling an unauthorised route in Christchurch.

Police have released the name of the woman who died in a head-on collision in Kawakawa last Friday morning.

Police are concerned a 17-year-old woman killed in a head-on crash in Waikato on Saturday may have been tired or distracted.

A teenager killed in a car crash in North Canterbury early this morning has been named as Tarrin Kayne Alderson, aged 18, of Rangiora.

A teenager has been killed and another seriously injured when the car they were travelling in crashed into a pole in north Canterbury early this morning.

The truck driver taken by helicopter to Dunedin Hospital after a crash near Waikouaiti on Wednesday afternoon remains in hospital.

Passing motorists watched as a trailer unit, carrying wool bales, slid off State Highway 1 near Waikouaiti yesterday and dragged its truck down a steep bank.

A car has collided with a truck on State Highway 1 north of Auckland this morning.

One man is in hospital with serious head injuries and two other people have moderate injuries after the car they were travelling in went over a cliff between Queenstown and Cromwell this morning.

An American student has been charged with causing a fatal crash that killed three of his friends who were about to walk the Tongariro Crossing.