Road accident

A Wanganui toddler died last night after being hit by a car at around 10.20am in Castlecliff.

A 44-year-old man and a female student have been taken to hospital following a collision between a van and truck and trailer unit on State Highway 1 north of Dunedin.

An elderly male cyclist is dead after being hit by a car on Brighton Rd this afternoon.

A woman has died after the car she was in left the road at an Ashburton intersection overnight.

The driver of a campervan that collided with a truck on Thursday, killing his wife, has admitted a charge of careless driving causing death.

Police have named the woman killed when two vehicles collided on State Highway 1 near Henley on Monday afternoon.

One person has been killed and five others seriously injured in a two-car crash near Kawakawa in Northland.

A Canadian tourist in a campervan has been charged after he hit a motorcyclist in the Buller Gorge yesterday afternoon.

Two people sustained life-threatening injuries in a two-car crash near Rotorua last night.

A Canadian tourist whose wife died when their campervan collided with a truck in Waikato today had driven on to a state highway thinking it was a roundabout, says a witness.

The person killed in a crash just north of Auckland last night has been named.

A woman and her two children were flown to Dunedin Hospital yesterday morning with serious injuries after a head-on crash between two vehicles near Taieri Mouth.