Road accident

A woman has died and her brother and 7-year-old daughter are seriously injured after a car collided with a freight train in Stratford this morning.

A 42-year-old Christchurch man is in hospital with serious injuries after his logging truck rolled 30m down a bank in the Marlborough Sounds today.

Police are hoping to complete their investigation soon into the Poolburn crash which claimed the life of a young Irishman early on Saturday.

An apparently drunk man holding a baby walked into the line of traffic after arguing with his partner, witnesses say.

Two people have been taken to hospital after a bus crashed into a line of cars on Greenlane's Wheturangi Road in Auckland this morning.

Greytown's Kuranui College is tightening up its rules after one of its students suffered serious spinal injuries in a car accident.

The 21-year-old man killed as he walked along the middle of the highway between Timaru and Temuka last night has been named by police.

He was Anthony Foster Grant, of Timaru.